Senior Salesforce Administrator - USA REMOTE WOR ID-7258

March 6, 2025

One of our US clients, a leading marketplace for the manufacturing sector, is seeking a Salesforce Administrator to join their team and look for ways to leverage and improve their Salesforce platform to solve business problems for all of the company. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and work collaboratively alongside Sales and Marketing stakeholders to deliver insights through ad hoc data requests and build a suite of Dashboards and Reports for executives.

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What you'll do

Work with stakeholders to groom and maintain a CRM product backlog

Build and maintain Dashboard and Reports

Use Declarative Salesforce functionality to build out our Salesforce CRM

Manage Salesforce sandboxes across different teams for testing, updates, experiments with connected applications, etc

Act as a member of an Agile Scrum team and work with programmatic developers and product owners to build an excellent CRM solution to deliver value across the organization

Investigate data quality issues in Salesforce and across connected applications

Partner with other teams to provide strategic insights and apply data consistencies across the organization

Strategically build account hierarchies

Leverage your Salesforce knowledge to adequately train employees on how to use Salesforce

Create CRM best practices

Maintain and own responsibility for a Salesforce-driven organization

What we're looking for

Previous experience working with Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud required

Previous experience working with Salesforce CPQ highly desired

Deep knowledge and understanding of the Salesforce platform

Experience working with various departments and teams to build Dashboards and Reports

Experience working with programmers to determine the best solutions and when to use Declarative vs Programmatic Solutions

Basic knowledge and understanding of SOQL and Salesforce Metadata

Use of a repository to track declarative changes

Familiar with the latest Salesforce tools and features such as Salesforce CLI, Scratch Orgs, Einstein Activity Metrics, Ant for Metadata deployments, etc

Familiar with integrations and setting up connected applications with Salesforce

High-Level understanding of the Salesforce deployment processes and environment management

Experience with Sandboxes, Data Loader, Data Import Wizard and Gearset

High-Level understanding of Apex and Visualforce

Experience with Flows and Process Builder

Experience with Salesforce Lightning, especially Lightning Console

(Bonus) Experience in the Manufacturing (or Industrial) business market

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