A sales consultant is a professional who provides customers with professional product or service consultation, solutions, and facilitates transactions during the sales process.

Alibaba's sales consultants are mainly responsible for the following tasks:

1. Customer development: actively looking for potential customers and building a customer resource library.

2. Demand analysis: communicating with customers to understand their business needs, pain points and goals, and recommending suitable Alibaba products or services to them.

3. Product promotion: clearly and accurately introducing Alibaba's various products and services to customers, including e-commerce platforms, marketing tools, data analysis services, etc.

4. Solution customization: customizing personalized solutions for customers based on their needs to meet their business development needs.

5. Business negotiation: negotiating with customers on prices, cooperation terms, etc. to reach a cooperation intention.

6. Relationship maintenance: maintaining good communication and cooperation with customers, promptly solving problems encountered by customers in the process of using products or services, and promoting long-term cooperation and value-added of customers.

7. Market research: Collect market information and competitor dynamics, and provide suggestions for the optimization of the company's products and services.

In short, Alibaba sales consultants need to have good communication skills, sales skills, market insight and problem-solving skills to promote business growth and improve customer satisfaction.