Senior Solution Architect/Trade Promotion Management

3 Months ago • 10 Years + • Manufacturing • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Solution Architect leads workstreams in sophisticated enterprise customer engagements for Salesforce Professional Services. They serve as hands-on advisors, leveraging communication skills, solution/technical knowledge, Salesforce product expertise, industry experience, and consulting experience to deliver customer ROI. Responsibilities include guiding clients in deploying technologies, managing risk, negotiating solutions, reviewing project direction, and driving program vision. The role requires expertise in Consumer Goods Cloud, Retail Execution, and Trade Promotion Management, along with strong Salesforce platform skills and experience in agile and waterfall methodologies. The ideal candidate will have excellent presentation and communication skills and be able to work collaboratively with diverse teams across various organizational levels.
Must have:
  • 10+ years enterprise project experience (waterfall & agile)
  • 3+ years Consumer Goods experience with CG Cloud
  • Salesforce platform configuration & customization expertise
  • Experience leading discovery sessions and defining requirements
  • Strong presentation & communication skills
  • Team player with experience in large-scale implementations
Good to have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Technology, Engineering, or related field
  • Proven results delivering high-value business outcomes using agile
  • Relevant Salesforce certifications (CG Cloud, TPM, or REX Accreditation)
  • Consulting experience

Job Details

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Customer Success

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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

The Senior Solution Architect leads one or more workstreams in sophisticated enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key collaborators to drive and achieve the vision while completing key deliverables. They serve as hands-on advisors, using strong communication skills, solution and/or technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client’s business to deliver customer return on investment.
Solution Architects are strong presenters and facilitators that are able to co-create the vision and own the execution with the customer as well as acquire customer acceptance of the delivered solution. They are capable of driving difficult conversations and removing roadblocks to implement the business strategies. They are proficient at analyzing issues and obstacles to resolve root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action. They connect with technical and business customers from all levels through C-suite. On a day to day basis, they interact with customer product owner, business process owner and technical resources to understand requirements, analyze information, and craft comprehensive solutions. They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges or common objectives faced by customers within the industry.
Solution Architects are stewards of the Professional Services Methodology. They engage with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure the solutions are driving the most effective achievement of the value objectives. Solution Architects supply to thought leadership and standard methodologies by engaging with the cloud-specific practices teams. They will chip in both internally in their Community and externally in the marketplace.

YOUR IMPACT: Responsibilities
Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Sr. Solution Architect with Consumer Goods Cloud experience. As a Sr. Solution Architect, you will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex enterprise customers. Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails -
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
  • Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
  • Work collaboratively and having 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

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  • 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/or 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
  • Experience in documenting business processes and wire-framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system 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
  • Maintain relevant certifications
  • Travel up to 50%

PREFERRED 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, TPM or REX Accreditation)
  • Consulting experience are strongly recommended

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For British Columbia-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 165,800 to CAD 240,400.

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