Salesforce Technical Platform Manager

Technical Salesforce Manager – Frankfurt, Germany

This business is an international logistics outfit who have various locations across Europe. Due to continued growth, they’re upgrading their internal IT infrastructure to Salesforce so require an experienced technical professional to join and take control of all internal Salesforce systems.

You’ll be part of the Management team working closely with the business owners, CIO and external partners to implement and rollout the systems to their international offices whilst managing the further support and maintenance.

As the company grows more and more, there will be requirement for the IT team to expand more having a dedicated professional for each cloud which will see the person who assumes this role, to become the platform manager and have direct reports in other Salesforce experts.

The Salesforce Technical Platform Manager will be:

• Part of and managing the end to end implementation in the areas of e-commerce & marketing CRM
• Providing technical support to all offices across various countries
• Responsible for further system development, continuous alignment with CI/CD and delivery in the multi-cloud environment
• Managing the technical queries with the suppliers and implementation partners like performance, release and license management, system extensions, add-ons, the overall implementation and integrations
• Manage and monitor service level agreements with service providers
• Developing and testing new functions for the business and responsible for the technical documentation
• Take part in strategic development of the roadmap, taking optimal accounts of the costs and benefits of the long-term IT strategies

The ideal Salesforce Technical Platform Manager will have experience with:

• Comprehensive knowledge of Salesforce; Sales, Service Commerce & Marketing Cloud, data structures, Lightning platform and maintenance
• Good IT knowledge and previous technical experience
• Project management skills – ability to build strong relationships with various cross cultured teams
• Strategic skills to developer long term vision and ability to translate these into actionable roadmaps, improving the overall business functionality
• Highly analytical, strong communication skills, dynamic and assertive
• Hold relevant Salesforce certifications (Administrator, Sales & Service Cloud Consultant) are a bonus
• Fluent in English – German is a huge bonus
• Hybrid working approach being remote with occasional travel to one of various offices around Germany