Salesforce Functional Lead

Salesforce Functional Lead - Saudi Arabia

Location:

Riyadh or Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: you're only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for ambitious companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. We make this standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design and technology to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

We're not ones to sit on our hands and wait. We anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional.

From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what's next.

We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.

We're looking for a Salesforce Functional Lead based in Saudi Arabia to shape and lead the functional design of a large-scale Salesforce programme for a major enterprise client in the Kingdom.

You’ll need the confidence to lead cross-functional teams, the ability to partner with other project leads, and the client advocacy skills to manage stakeholders at every level of an organisation. You’ll bring a strong passion for experience strategy, experience design and digital platform development, and a track record of running substantial client projects and driving success at account level.

You’ll be at your best building today’s agreed solution while also making the case for tomorrow’s next step. You enjoy working through the complexity that large digital programmes bring, and you inspire and motivate your team every day to do compelling, commercially successful work.

• Act as Functional Lead on the engagement, making sure delivery succeeds on scope, deliverables, budget, client satisfaction, business outcomes and team engagement
• Become a trusted advisor to the client, keeping communication open and guiding efforts to manage and exceed expectations
• Build and sustain strategic client relationships, and run programmes that draw out and answer the client’s needs
• Anticipate the client’s needs, concerns and input, and argue for high-ROI solutions, even where they challenge current thinking on process, systems and customers
• Understand the client’s business, internal dynamics, industry and competition, so you can bring the right solutions at the right time
• Run the account proactively: spot opportunities, foresee risks and stay ahead of them while actively contributing account growth
• Align platform capabilities with business goals and strategy
• Translate business requirements into functional requirements, and guide their implementation in line with business goals
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team of project managers, designers, developers, architects and business experts to produce bold ideas and deliver efficiently
• Contribute to deliverables such as digital roadmaps, MVP definition, feature prioritisation, requirements documentation, UX recommendations and agile delivery reviews
• Train the client’s team so they adopt the new system

• Explain Horizontal Digital’s Salesforce practice capabilities, offerings and value
• Contribute to practice…