Salesforce Functional Lead

Overview

Join to apply for the Salesforce Functional Lead role at Merkle Aotearoa . Location : Auckland. Employment type : Permanent, Full time.

About us

Merkle Aotearoa are a leading digital transformation consulting firm in New Zealand and are a part of the dentsu group, Asia Pacific’s largest and most awarded agency network. For Merkle, this means we focus on delivering connected experiences for our customer’s customer, using human centred design principles and actionable data / insights, to implement world class Salesforce solutions and digitally led transformation.

At Merkle our purpose is to bring our customers closer to their customers, partnering with organisations to accelerate the design and delivery of strategy, and to lift organisational performance. Our focus is to create the conditions for an organisation, and the people within it, to thrive. This means solutions that leverage best practice insights, tailored to client context.

What your role and typical day might look like

As a Functional Lead, you play a critical role leading a team of Salesforce consultants to design and implement innovative solutions delivering great outcomes for our clients.

You will be supported by an exceptional team of Architects, UX designers, BAs and Delivery Leads to take an experience-led approach, bringing new ways of working and the Salesforce vision to life.

As a leader, you will mentor and support the development of our people helping them achieve their goals and ambitions along the way.

Responsibilities

• Using your Salesforce expertise to design and build innovative solutions that maximise our client’s investment in the Salesforce platform and accelerate their realisation of business value.
• Role-modelling and ensuring alignment to best practices across all aspects of an implementation, including requirements gathering, solution design, documentation, build, test and release.
• Proactively supporting team members to resolve issues, clarify needs and gather feedback on solutions.
• Participating in and facilitating workshops and assisting with backlog refinement / user story creation.
• Provide inputs into delivery-related planning activities and be able to identify and flag assumptions, dependencies, risks and issues, assisting your broader project leadership team to effectively steer the project towards success.
• Mentor, inspire, and motivate team members to uplift capability, produce high quality outcomes and output that meets or exceeds client expectations.
• Showing your passion for learning and keeping abreast of Salesforce innovations and new capabilities through the attainment of Salesforce certifications and relevant learning opportunities.
• Acting as a multiplier, you will contribute to learning initiatives, and boldly share your passion, skills and experience with the wider team.
• Actively participate in and contribute to the social fabric of the Auckland office.

A bit about you

Next Steps

If you want to belong to a one global network where opportunities are limitless, we look forward to having you join us. Apply now!

Notes

Please note, we are not able to sponsor work visas for this position. Only candidates with current / existing work rights for New Zealand will be considered.

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