Salesforce Functional Lead

Company: Accenture
Location: Dallas
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

This will navigate you to Accenture.com Sign In page. Ready to fast-track your Salesforce career?-- Join the largest--team of Salesforce certified professionals in the industry and--champion innovation, leverage deep and cutting-edge Salesforce expertise and pioneer solutions to help transform the world's leading organizations and governments.-- Ready to solve complex problems? Advance your skills? Deliver next-generation Salesforce solutions?-- Now is the perfect time for you to join the Accenture--Salesforce--team, where you'll:-- Expand your experience--with over 200 intelligent tools across all 12 Salesforce-recognized industries. Lead in the development and implementation--of new Salesforce-based solutions.-- Benefit from our long-standing partnership with Salesforce--to--access the coolest Salesforce technologies, like Lightning, Einstein and Bolt, so you can put them to meaningful applications at scale.-- Join more than 11,800--skilled Salesforce--professionals, collaborating across multiple areas to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale. Build new skills and strengthen your expertise--with unparalleled training and support-whether you're taking the--more than 4,200 unique--Salesforce certifications or working towards your Certified Technical Architect (CTA) certification. Join Accenture and be empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning and a global community. Job Description The--Salesforce team--is growing rapidly and is looking to add experienced--Salesforce.com--Functional Leads--to join our team Functional Delivery Managers. This is a terrific opportunity for a Cloud CRM subject matter expert to take on a functional leadership role within our growing consultancy. You'll have experience with multiple CRM Implementations with user base of 200+ including--Enterprise Integrations such as with ERP, Order Management, Claims Systems, Portals, etc. We can hire for this role anywhere in the US,--as long as--you are located near an Accenture office.

• Racking up those air miles will have to wait, as weekly non-essential travel to client sites Monday through Thursday is currently suspended. For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.
• Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts. Typical Day Snapshot While we'd love to say that there's a "typical" day in the life of a consultant, we all know that every day will be different! Some of the--day to day--challenges of this role will include: Lead and facilitate discovery and scoping sessions with clients-- Understand client business process and potential constraints (budget, timeline, expertise, etc.) to define optimal and reasonable project scope and expectations-- Create and defend solution estimate and SOW-- Incorporate past experiences, business savvy, creative and out-of-the-box thinking in designing solutions; offer multiple, potential solutions-- Coordinate with Technical Architects/CTA's, integration, and data consultants, and others, as needed, for specific technical design requirements-- Provide recommendations on third-party applications-- Manage expectations with clients, Accenture colleagues, as well as SFDC and other 3rd parties - i.e., be able to influence and guide towards successful outcomes-- Disseminating best practices on solution positioning and delivery. Own the solution and provide architectural oversight of the solution throughout the project-- Provide guidance and advisory support to project team on implementation approach and complex configuration issues-- Participate in QA checkpoints during delivery to provide guidance and insure solution aligns with original scope-- Work with project team to develop and validate estimates to support any Change Orders-- Participate in project status meetings, as requested by the Delivery Lead/Project Manager-- Contribute to estimating and SOW templates for future phases-- Leading business and functional requirements definition and prioritization/scoping of requirements. Mapping functional requirements to Salesforce.com features and functionality. Maintaining and coordinate communication with the customer throughout each project. Mentoring more junior team members in business analysis, project management, and Salesforce.com best practices. Qualifications Basic Qualifications Minimum of---2 years of progressive experience in solutioning, discovery and business analysis, project management, and technology implementation in full life-cycle CRM engagements. Minimum of--3--year of experience with Salesforce.com is required. Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years' work--experience)-- Preferred Skills Exceptional communication and presentation skills. Customer oriented and great at building client relationships. Desire to work in a dynamic work environment and be creative within a team. Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment. Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment. Desire to work in an information systems environment. Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. 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