Role Title: Salesforce Front Office Consultant

Location: United Kingdom – Manchester

Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience

Career Level: Associate Manager

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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About the Accenture Salesforce Business Group:

Accenture has established a global commitment to Salesforce called the Salesforce Business Group (SFBG); a focused executive-level effort between Salesforce and Accenture, to turbo-charge our joint business, and deliver outstanding customer experiences for our clients. You will be part of an exciting environment – we have the energy and pace of a start-up, merged with the stability of a well-established Salesforce capability (Accenture has been delivering Salesforce-powered transformation for over 15 years).

The Accenture Salesforce Business Group exists to help our clients create the best customer and employee experiences on the planet.  We do this by leveraging the best aspects of our deep knowledge of how to modernise organisations selling, service and operational functions across all key industries.  With deep knowledge in the power of Salesforce’s multiple cloud offerings, we help clients transform their employee and customer experiences.  We believe that for organisations to be digital on the outside they must first optimise how they run their business with a clean digital core on which to conduct their operations. As a major global user of Salesforce ourselves we lead by example and are a great example of how we have modernised our sales, forecasting and commercial governance with Salesforce tools.

You will learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success and diverse ways of thinking. It is in that way that we believe that our customers will get the best results from their partnership with us.  If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be your role. As part of our international team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.  

As a Salesforce Front Office Consultant you will:

• Work as part of an integrated Accenture and client team, defining, designing, delivering and deploying leading Salesforce-based solutions to our clients

• Develop your leadership and consulting skills whilst delivering Salesforce at scale, to deliver measurable client value in some of the most dynamic and challenging environments

• Drive creativity and innovation in solutions to deliver value for clients and Accenture

• Support pre-sales activities including helping shape and present solutions, and associated estimating and planning for delivery

• Develop further skills in Salesforce, solutions, project management, and client engagement through hands-on experience and training

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Direct client-facing Salesforce solution consulting and delivery experience.

• Proven hands-on experience analysing, designing, building, testing, and delivering integrated solutions based on Salesforce clouds and leading ecosystem products.

• Ability to engage with clients at all levels in a business-centric, outcome-oriented dialogue.

• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with a focus on building and maintaining client relationships.

• Experience working with clients to understand business and technology requirements through meetings and workshops.

• Salesforce certified.

Set yourself apart:

• Industry-specific knowledge and experience leveraging leading Salesforce industry solutions

• Salesforce Application Architect, or Solution Architect certification

• Pre-sales solution architecture experience (including solution shaping, and delivery estimation and planning)

• Salesforce ecosystem knowledge, experience and network

• Active Salesforce community participation and contributions

• Evidence of bringing emerging solutions and innovations to deliver value for clients

• Evidence of working in an agile manner applying leading methods and techniques such as Design Thinking.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package.

Closing Date for Applications 31/11/2024

Accenture reserves the right to close the role before this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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