Client Partner Senior Director

Salesforce Professional Services Client Partner

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Salesforce Professional Services helps customers transform and build what's next for business - with technology. We seek an expert strategic business leader with shown success who can lead the Board of Directors and C-suite of our customers to transform business, operations, and technology to drive business outcomes. As a trusted advisor, Client Partners lead account planning, are heavily involved in presales and work collaboratively with industry authorities to assemble well-thought out strategies for our customers. They will be responsible for coordinating adoption and consumption of our technology, building and leading customer relationships, CSAT, and service delivery.

The ideal candidate will bring diverse IT and / or Management Consulting background and knowledge of industry trends, demonstrating this credibility as a strategic advisor to our customers, partners, and internal teams across Salesforce.

This Client Partner will be able to craft innovative, forward-looking strategies while clearly defining the path forward, owning the changes to IT strategy, policies, processes, people, governance and partnerships.

In this role, you will be the voice of the customer to craft and implement a strategy to build mind-share and broad adoption of Salesforce technologies. Critical to the role is the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges as you drive customers' efficiencies, cost savings, and quick innovation available on the Salesforce platform.

Your Impact

• Actively participate in the pursuit process of our large scale deals, working cross-functionally within Salesforce to ensure we are selling what we can deliver as aligned with the customer's objectives; work with teams to deliver the pitch, define scope / team and supply to pricing and contractual arrangements.
• Work hand in hand with internal teams (Sales, Success, TMP and Support) to develop and lead strategy and drive customer adoption initiatives. Maintain through the life of the relationship.
• Responsible for communications with the client and within Salesforce up to the CxO level regarding expectations, performance, governance and issue escalation / resolution during the course of delivery to ensure success.
• Accountable for supervising end-to-end service delivery and ensuring all contractual commitments are met. Works with the customer to amend and approve changes as necessary.
• Drive entrepreneurial changes needed to achieve the customers' objectives, advised by deep industry and product expertise.
• Optimally leads and encourages the Salesforce Professional Services team members engaged in the services delivery. Mentor and develop the team.
• Anticipates, mitigates, and leads risk to Salesforce and the customer.
• Participates in the continued development of internal processes, artifacts and methodologies to support service delivery to our most strategic customers.

Minimum Requirements

Note : This role is Office-Flex, with the expectation that you will work from a Salesforce office three days per week.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including : time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link : https : / / www.salesforcebenefits.com. For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $235,270 to $314,650. For Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $235,270 to $314,650.