Salesforce Delivery Lead Associate Director - Consumer Goods & Retail

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You Are

A Salesforce Delivery Lead in the CG&R industry. You thrive in a team setting where you can use your prodigious creative and analytical powers to decimate problems.

Leadership skills? You have them in spades, and you have the top-shelf communication, people, and management abilities to bring out the best in team members.

Working in an information systems environment makes you more than happy.

The Work

• Lead Salesforce.com Consumer Goods and Retail implementation engagement and provide engagement leadership : Assess engagement performance, risks, issues and impact on solution and service delivery commitments, client relationships, etc.
• Own development of plan to review and manage client expectations throughout delivery and ensure the values we are delivering are in line with client expectations.
• Create an integrated project plan from the individual project plans, showing the high-level flow of project milestones and dependencies across projects.

Use the plan to rebalance work and manage variances across projects.

• Lead business and functional requirements definition and prioritization / scoping of requirements
• Monitor and control the quality management process, manage expectations, conduct milestone reviews, manage process performance, conduct continuous improvement and causal analysis activities.
• Monitor all issues that affect the team, project, or program and potential risks.
• Manage program / project's financial, resource strategy and contingency
• Disseminate best practices on solution positioning and delivery
• Build and maintain high performance teams
• Support pre-sales activities inclusive of participating in sales calls and proposal development

He re's What You Need

• Experience supporting CG&R clients and / or the CG&R Industry
• A minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in project management, business analysis, and technology implementation in full life-cycle Cloud / CRM engagements
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS) and Salesforce.com, either through work at industry participants or consulting to the industry.
• A minimum of 4 years' experience in Cloud Computing project implementation - Well rounded in both functional and technical aspects of a CRM engagement
• A minimum of 4 years of experience leading teams
• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years' work experience)

Bonus Points If

• You can adapt to dynamic work environment and be creative within a team
• You are customer-oriented and great at building client relationships
• You have a strong background in Cloud Computing solutions Do you have a passion for using innovative technologies to make a positive impact on business and cod computing strategy, systems design, integration, implementation, and management?
• You have previous experience in leading an Application Functional team (Configuration, customization, Force.com development) or Application Integration team (including data integration / data modeling)
• You have consulting experience with medium to large consulting firms focusing on cloud computing related consulting (solution architecture, storage, SaaS, multi-tenant computing, large scale computing environments, etc.).
• You have experience managing multi-shore projects
• You are PMP and / or other project management certification preferred
• You have Salesforce.com and other cloud platform certifications
• You have executive-level sales support experience in consulting / professional services

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Maryland $121,400 to $241,900

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