Business Strategist, Senior Manager (Public Sector)

Company: Salesforce
Company: Salesforce
Location: Canada - Toronto
Commitment: Full time
Posted on: 2023-05-03 16:37
To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategoryCustomer Success GroupJob DetailsIn this leadership role supporting the industry sectors, you will lead passionate, high-performing, collaborative teams focused on delivering complex, transformative strategy engagements. Collaborating directly with CxO-level customers, you will craft innovative, experience-led strategies which clearly define the vision, program success metrics and an executable roadmap which achieves desired business outcomes. Work with our key customers, partners, and technical delivery leaders, you will drive scale, speed to value and a sustained landscape for future success.The ideal candidate will bring technology-enabled, large-scale Business Transformation experience and knowledge of industry trends, leveraging this credibility as a strategic advisor to our customers, partners, and internal Salesforce teams. Critical to the role is the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges as you drive customer efficiencies, cost savings, and quick innovation available on the Salesforce Cloud platform. You will possesses strong facilitation and synthesis skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders on a common path forward, ensuring Business and IT executives embrace joint ownership for results.We believe the best strategists are those who obsess over the creation of customer and business value. The ideal candidate will have a customer-centric and collaborative mentality, willing to go the extra mile for the customer, and will break down barriers in order to ensure customer success.ResponsibilitiesHelp position and sell large-enterprise Salesforce Professional Services consulting engagements to customers, working cross-functionally within Salesforce to define the program scope, team, value narrative and pitchConduct assessments and facilitate workshops to gain alignment with leaders on a future-state vision, including business objectives, capabilities, value drivers, success metrics and technology prioritiesPerform and distill customer, industry and end-user research to identify key stakeholder needs, customer expectations and experience-led business opportunitiesIdentify enterprise business process/operations improvements to realize efficiencies and increase impact Craft innovative, forward-looking strategies which leverage the power of the Salesforce platform and transform complex, global companies to gain competitive advantage and growth in their marketsDevelop multi-year, strategic roadmaps for immediate delivery that prioritize investments and support business objectivesHelp business and IT leaders embrace new digital operating models, governance strategies and a customer- and user-centric mindset and approach to decision-makingUncover future Sales opportunities to drive incremental customer valueAnalyze opportunities and improvement data to articulate the strategic, operational and financial impact our platform and professional services delivered to the customerDevelop strategic business cases to project the value of strategy, the case for change and the implications of change for the organizationFoster solution/organizational adoption and strategy evolution to continue to deliver value with fast increment delivery cycles Contribute to the development of a Business Strategy competency within Salesforce Professional Services, share best practices, advise and collaborate with peersRequirements10+ years consulting in enterprise-level technology transformation programs at Fortune 500 companies / government consulting, ideally Public Sector.GTM support experience, including scoping, proposal development, RFP response, demos/presentationsExperience in Business Strategy, Product Management, Agile, Program Governance, Experience Design, Change Management and/or Value RealizationKnowledge of the concepts, practices, procedures, and deliverables associated with solution development, implementation and operational readinessKnowledge of the key business value drivers and success metrics typical of large-enterprise companiesAbility to analyze and synthesize complex information, working in situations where data may be absent or ambiguous and creative approaches are requiredStrong executive presence and presentation / facilitation skills, comfortable collaborating with and presenting to C-suite executives, including poised, confident objection-handling abilitiesResults-oriented, strategic thinker that enjoys helping customers "cross the chasm" from current state to future stateCreative, high-energy, entrepreneurial self-starter comfortable running initiatives and programs independently within a “start up-paced” technology companyThrive working collaboratively and cross-functionally, particularly with Sales, Engagement Delivery Leaders, Solution and Technical Architects, Designers and External PartnersSalesforce product knowledge and solution design are desired, but not requiredOccasional travel (expected average 50%), variableBachelor's degreeAccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.Posting StatementAt Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. 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