Salesforce Service Cloud Functional Lead - Accenture Technology

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Job Description

Accenture Technology – Salesforce Team is growing rapidly and is looking to add experienced Salesforce Service Cloud Functional Leads to join our team as Associate Managers. This role will have day-to-day management of our Salesforce Service Cloud functional team.

We are seeking a Salesforce Cloud Professionals to work with the business process and development teams to design, implement and deploy Salesforce Cloud applications to a wide variety of clients at the enterprise level. You'll own and drive business requirements, developing functional designs to create and effectively demonstrate solutions that address customer requirements. You'll facilitate solution design trade off sessions that evaluate potential design options and balance business value against the cost of development and ongoing maintenance effort. We'll need to have an understanding of Contact Centers and/or Field Service and the key operational metrics and performance indicators used to manage a Customer Service environment. You'll use your knowledge of other key technology enablers used within a Customer Service environment such as Computer Telephony Integration, Portal self-service, Knowledge or Case Management, to define complete solutions for your clients.

We can hire for this role anywhere in the US, as long as you are located near an Accenture office, and willing and able to travel domestically approximately 80% of the time to meet client needs.

Key Responsibilities may include:
· Leading project teams on Service Cloud engagements, spanning the standard project lifecycle from strategy/visioning through implementation/post-implementation support with responsibilities across business and technical work streams.
· Driving collaborative Customer Service business process, business requirements and functional design discussions with clients, focusing on business value to make real-time design decisions
· Supporting change management and business readiness activities to deploy Service Cloud, Field Service Lighting and/or Communities to end users
· Manage functional project team members.
· Running workshops, working closely with client, able to talk about tradeoffs e.g. terms of config vs code.
· Mapping functional requirements to Salesforce Service Cloud features and functionality.
· Disseminating leading practices on customer service processes and solutions
· Mentor junior team members in customer service processes and Salesforce.com Service Cloud technology
· Support pre-sales activities inclusive of participating in sales calls and proposal development.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
·  Minimum of 3 years Contact Center, Customer Service and/or Field Service experience
·  Minimum of 3 years of experience in Salesforce.com with a focus on Service Cloud and/or Field Service Lightning
·  Minimum of 3 years consulting experience
·  Minimum of 3 years of requirements gathering and design experience, including process mapping and gap analysis.
·  Minimum of 3 years functional understanding of leading CRM and Customer Service technologies including Salesforce.com, Siebel, Pega, Oracle RightNow, or Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Preferred Skills
·  Salesforce Certifications, including Service Cloud
·  Well-rounded in both functional and technical aspects of a CRM engagement.
·  Excellent communication and presentation skills.
·  Combination of business analysis and technology implementation experience.
·  Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment and be creative within a team.
Professional Skill Requirements
·  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.
·  Excellent leadership and management skills.
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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