Sales & Marketing Technology Leader-Salesforce

Sales & Marketing Technology Leader

At Columbia Threadneedle Investments, we're redefining asset management with innovative technology that drives smarter, more agile solutions. By leveraging cutting-edge CRM technologies and SaaS platforms, we're transforming our Sales, Marketing and Client Management capabilities. If you're a visionary leader ready to shape the future of technology in asset management, this is your opportunity to make a real impact. We're seeking a dynamic Sales & Marketing Technology Leader to shape our global CRM strategy and technology excellence. This role will focus on enhancing core capabilities across our global teams. The Sales & Marketing Technology Leader will provide Salesforce CRM ecosystem expertise and leadership that supports and drives both strategic solutions and enhancements. They will have the ability to partner and influence business partners, internal teams, and / or vendors to deliver high quality products within the expected timeframes and planned roadmaps. This is a hands-on role that will include day-to-day collaboration with key business stakeholders, product development, technology leads and offshore engineering teams. This is your chance to influence the future of how we serve clients, drive business growth, and empower our teams with the best-in-class sales and marketing solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Global Tech Strategy : Own the global technology strategy for Sales and Marketing products across EMEA, North America, and India; specifically, the Salesforce CRM & Marketing ecosystem.
• Cross-Regional Leadership : Manage and align technology teams across EMEA, North America, and India, ensuring a consistent technology strategy and approach that supports business objectives globally.
• Strategic Influence : Use technology to drive strategic decisions with business partners around sales enablement, distribution optimization, and client service innovation.
• Mentor & Develop Teams : Lead and develop a high-performance team of technology professionals, fostering innovation, collaboration, and excellence across all regions.
• Thought Leadership : Influence the refinement of features, processes, and best practices to ensure the optimal performance and availability of technologies. Ensure improvements align with existing engineering principles and align with the roadmap.
• Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business. Effectively present the value proposition of business-appropriate emerging technologies to technology leadership.

Required Qualifications

About Our Company

We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of 2024. With our team more than 20,000 people in 20 countries, we advise, manage and protect assets and income of more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.