Salesforce Manager [Pharma & Life Science]

PwC; Florham Park (NJ); On-site; USD 99,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC seeks a Salesforce consulting generalist to deliver client-centric Salesforce solutions, analyse needs, implement software, and provide training for effective utilisation. You will lead with integrity, coach teams, and ensure quality, timelines, and budgets across engagements.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of consulting and Salesforce certifications, with strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills to drive client success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; 5+ years of consulting experience with Salesforce.
• Salesforce certifications (Admin/Developer/Sales or Service) preferred.
• Experience leading teams and managing client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver consulting engagements for Salesforce-based solutions.
• Analyse client needs, design and implement software solutions, and train users.
• Coach and develop team members while ensuring quality, timelines, and budgets.

Skills

Leadership

Team mentoring

Project ownership

Client communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Salesforce.com

Veeva

SAP

Oracle

Marketo

Job description

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.

As a Salesforce consulting generalist at PwC, you will possess a broad range of consulting skills and experience across various Salesforce applications. You will provide consulting services to clients, analysing their needs, implementing software solutions, and offering training and support for effective utilisation of Salesforce applications. Your versatile knowledge will allow you to assist clients in optimising operational efficiency and achieving their strategic objectives.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Minimum Degree Required Bachelor's DegreeMinimum Year(s) of Experience5 year(s)Preferred QualificationsDegree PreferredMaster's DegreePreferred Fields of StudyComputer and Information Science,Management Information SystemsCertification(s) Preferred

One or more of the following Salesforce.com certifications: Certified Administrator, Certified Developer, or Certified Sales/Service Consultant

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

• Demonstrates proven extensive knowledge levels and acumen specific to understanding underlying client business problems and developing Salesforce technology-enabled solutions that addresses the needs of large organizations, including how to implement technology solutions to help streamline organizational needs and meet legal-related and industry-specific compliance standards and regulations.
• Demonstrates proven extensive knowledge levels and success in roles assisting large organizations with:
• Improving the performance of their Sales, Service, Marketing, R&D, IT, and Operations business units;
• Understanding and solving business and technology challenges related to the implementation of CRM technologies, and,
• Delivering Social & Mobile Enterprise platforms, and designing and developing platform-based applications that meet client business needs.
• Demonstrates proven extensive knowledge and success as a team leader, including:
• Supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust and seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation;
• Answering questions and providing direction to less-experienced staff;
• Coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback.
• For roles within Financial Services, prior experience in Financial Services preferred; for roles within Pharma & Life Sciences Industry Advisory, prior experience in Pharma & Life Sciences industry preferred.
• Demonstrates proven success and extensive abilities to learn and perform in functional and technical capacities, which includes the following areas:
• Leading and/or facilitating teams to develop client proposals, leveraging extensive business development and relationship management know-how;
• Identifying and addressing client needs: developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; preparing and presenting comprehensive written and verbal materials; and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection;
• Writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting cogently to and/or for all levels of industry audiences, clients and internal staff and management;
• Software configuration, Mobile solutions, Apex coding, or Visualforce coding experience in Salesforce.com and/or Veeva;
• System application implementations, software configurations, or other related coding in the following technological product suites; Salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle, Marketo and related cloud and/or on premise ERP business applications;
• Third-party integrations and functionality and impact of these integrations;
• Utilization of PC applications (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project) and business levels of fluency in multiple languages to write, communicate, facilitate, and present cogently, emphasizing the ability to capture effectively clients' needs and understand their systems enough to be able to translate those needs in to system functionality;
• Producing deliverables within a diverse, fast paced environment, collaborating effectively across global teams and juggle multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously.

The salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $232,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance

As PwC is anequal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work

For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.