Salesforce Marketing Cloud Solutions Architect - Consulting

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Job description

A career within Salesforce Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients leverage Salesforce technology to enhance their customer experiences, enable sustainable change, and drive results. We focus on understanding our client's challenges and developing custom solutions powered by Salesforce to transform their sales, service and marketing capabilities by exploring data and identifying trends, managing customer life cycles, strategically building and leveraging online communities, driving employee engagement and collaboration, and connecting directly with channel partners to share goals, objectives, and activities in a secure, branded location. Our Salesforce Practice
We see Salesforce as a key platform for driving large transformation change in our clients and as one of the largest Salesforce users in the world, PwC is more than implementing for others we're living it every day ourselves. We are the fastest growing Salesforce Consulting Partner and have a proven track record in delivering the full spectrum of projects, ranging from start-ups to large transformation projects with an average customer satisfaction rating of 9.9 out of 10.

To support this rapid growth we are looking for people who enjoy the excitement of shaping new ideas and working as part of multi-disciplinary teams on complex challenges, where each project is likely to be different to the last. We are looking for candidates with the passion and commitment, intellect and experience that can enable our clients' success in the intensely competitive economic environment of the digital age.

The role

You will be part of our rapidly growing UK Salesforce Marketing Tech practice helping to shape and deliver the right outcomes for our clients. Working with our wider Salesforce practice across Business, Experience & Technology, you will deliver Salesforce Marketing Cloud projects for some of the largest brands in the UK & beyond. The ideal candidates will have a consistent track record in working with the technical and solution architects of global brands, and their teams, to identify, architect and implement technology solutions in support of digital marketing transformation initiatives. Furthermore, the ideal candidates will be:

• An experienced Salesforce solution architect (Marketing Cloud - Sales & Service appreciated but not required), able to help our clients assess their current digital technology maturity, identify gaps and shape a comprehensive, end-to-end digital blueprint and technology roadmap
• At minimum Salesforce Marketing Cloud Consultant & Developer certifications
• Experienced in supporting business development activities, including designing and top-down and bottom-up estimating Salesforce solutions based on minimal requirements provided by potential clients
• Experienced in the systems delivery lifecycle including requirements gathering, analysis, design, configuration, integration, testing (all phases), migration and deployment
• Solid experience with Salesforce & Salesforce Marketing data modelling, integration patterns and architecture best practices
• Experience across the marketing tech stack for designing larger martech stack approaches
• Good knowledge of Salesforce offerings, including licensing options
• Experience of deployment management and software delivery lifecycle
• Recognised as a trusted adviser, with a track record of creating successful technology solutions that support the organisational strategic vision and goals
• Able to bring to bear extensive knowledge of architectural patterns, technology components, vendor solutions and emerging technology trends on martech solution development in one or more industries
• A confident written and verbal communicator, able to clearly explain digital ideas to non-technical audiences, and work effectively with non-technical colleagues and business executives
• A capable team leader, used to leading teams of consultants, analysts, technologists and third party suppliers to develop detailed solutions, costs, timescales and methods for delivery of technology solutions
• Seasoned at successfully running the sourcing and selection process for third-party software and other technology components and services, as required to enable delivery of digital transformation solutions

Commercial

• Supporting Presales during development of new business with new or existing clients
• Producing proposals & working with Salesforce to present proposals
• Review of proposals during the presales process to ensure proposal accuracy
• Working with the commercial team to ensure a smooth handover in to Delivery processes

Growing the Business

• Be an integral part of scaling the business through spotting growth opportunities, developing delivery centers & creating new lines of business / accelerators / market solutions
• Participate in recruitment activities where necessary
• Lead internal trainings & thought leadership across marketing tech

The Essentials:

• Obsession with delivering best in class customer experiences & leveraging modern marketing tech to transform how brands operate and communicate with their customers
• Ideally educated to Degree level or equivalent, we are open to strong candidates from all relevant educational backgrounds but you must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven consulting experience, gained with a leading professional services or systems integration firm
• Expert knowledge and understanding of digital trends and challenges across industries, gained through project experience, contribution to thought leadership, articles, client recommendation, etc
• Proven experience in providing leadership on complex, digital and front-office transformation initiatives, working with and/or running mixed technical teams to deliver the work
• Demonstrable track record of helping to shape successful business development of digital and other front office business transformation initiatives
• Experience designing and implementing Marketing technologies
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud configuration experience including use of Journey Builder, AMPscript, SWL, automation studio, & landing pages
• Salesforce Email Specialist Certification

• Ability to travel throughout the UK and overseas

The nice to have:

• Passion for growing businesses & the challenge of being one of the global leaders in marketing technology consulting
• Wider business consulting experience in the Marketing domain
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Specialist certification
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud Consultant certification
• Salesforce DMP, Interaction Studio, Datorama, Customer 360 Audiences experience
• Pardot experience
• Wider Salesforce certifications
• Other marketing technology experience (e.g. Adobe Marketing Cloud, Marketo Marketing Automation, Sitecore Experience)

• Commercial experience gained in one of the following sectors:
  • Financial Services - Retail and Commercial Banking
  • Financial Services - Insurance and Investment Management
  • Financial Services - Capital Markets
  • Private Sector - Energy, Utilities and Resources
  • Private Sector - Technology, Media and Telecommunications
  • Private Sector - Retail and Consumer
  • Private Sector - Industrial products, manufacturing and professional services

Consulting
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
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The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.
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Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements..... click apply for full job details