Senior Solution Architect, Retail Execution/Trade Promotion Management

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
• Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
• Guide agents to support delivery
• Collaborate and have very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization
• Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
• Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners
• Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
• Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in enterprise-level projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and demonstrable success
• 3+ years experience in Consumer Goods with practical CG cloud experience and deep understanding of Retail Execution and Trade Promotion Management
• Extensive experience with configuration and customization on the Salesforce platform
• Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
• Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs
• Strong presentation skills; able to effectively present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of stakeholders
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal; able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
• Must be a team player as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple work streams
• A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
• Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
• Travel up to 50%

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in a Technology, Engineering (any field) or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
• Proven results in delivering high value business outcomes utilizing an agile approach
• Proven results leading customer and/or partner success stories
• Relevant Salesforce certifications & Accreditations (CG Cloud, REX Accreditation)
• Consulting experience is strongly recommended

Skills

Strong presentation skills; able to effectively present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of stakeholders

Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal; able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience

Must be a team player as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple work streams

A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles

Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems

Benefits

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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $150,100 - $227,000 annually. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.