Senior Salesforce Manager - Temporary Contract

As a Senior Manager - Salesforce & Business Automation at Denodo, you will play a strategic leadership role in defining the Salesforce vision, overseeing Lead-to-Cash capabilities, managing global teams, and ensuring systems scale securely and efficiently to support business growth. Your responsibilities will include: - **Strategy & Platform Ownership**: - Define and own the long-term Salesforce and Business Automation strategy aligned to company objectives - Act as Executive Product Owner for Salesforce across Sales, Finance, and Support functions - Own platform roadmap, investment planning, and prioritisation decisions - Balance MVP delivery with platform scalability, stability, and technical debt management - **Senior Stakeholder Leadership**: - Partner with executive and senior leadership across Sales, Finance, Operations, and Technology - Translate strategic business priorities into platform initiatives and delivery plans - Present roadmaps, architectural direction, risks, and ROI to leadership and governance forums - Serve as escalation point for cross-functional and delivery challenges - **Delivery, Agile & Execution Oversight**: - Provide oversight of Agile delivery across multiple workstreams and teams - Review and approve effort estimates, delivery plans, and release schedules - Ensure consistent delivery standards across analysis, build, testing, and UAT - Drive accountability for outcomes, timelines, and quality - **Architecture, Integrations & Data Governance**: - Provide architectural oversight for Salesforce and key integrations including various systems - Oversee data governance, quality, migration, and lifecycle management - Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and security standards - **People, Vendor & Capability Leadership**: - Lead, coach, and develop a global team of Salesforce Managers, Administrators, and Analysts - Build succession plans and future-ready Salesforce capabilities - Manage strategic vendor partnerships and system integrators - **Governance, Audit & Risk Management**: - Own Salesforce governance frameworks, BOP approvals, and compliance processes - Lead internal and external Salesforce audits - Ensure audit readiness, documentation, and control effectiveness - Identify and mitigate platform and delivery risks - **Continuous Improvement & Innovation**: - Identify automation and optimization opportunities across business processes - Stay current with Salesforce roadmap, releases, and industry trends - Evaluate new capabilities and tools to enhance operational efficiency In terms of qualifications, you should possess: - 12+ years of Salesforce platform experience in enterprise environments - 3+ years in a people-management role leading global or cross-regional teams - Proven ownership of Lead-to-Cash processes at scale - Strong experience operating in Agile/hybrid delivery models - Demonstrated experience influencing senior leadership and governance forums - Salesforce Certified Administrator certification - Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator or Salesforce Platform App Builder certification In addition, it is essential to have deep understanding of Salesforce best practices, architecture, and data models, along with hands-on experience in Salesforce CPQ+ and integration experience with finance systems using Boomi/Mulesoft preferred. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities are crucial for success in this role. Denodo is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. They provide reasonable accommodation to employees with protected disabilities. Kindly note that Denodo does not accept resumes from unauthorized suppliers. For more information about Denodo, you can visit their website at www.denodo.com. As a Senior Manager - Salesforce & Business Automation at Denodo, you will play a strategic leadership role in defining the Salesforce vision, overseeing Lead-to-Cash capabilities, managing global teams, and ensuring systems scale securely and efficiently to support business growth. Your responsibilities will include: - **Strategy & Platform Ownership**: - Define and own the long-term Salesforce and Business Automation strategy aligned to company objectives - Act as Executive Product Owner for Salesforce across Sales, Finance, and Support functions - Own platform roadmap, investment planning, and prioritisation decisions - Balance MVP delivery with platform scalability, stability, and technical debt management - **Senior Stakeholder Leadership**: - Partner with executive and senior leadership across Sales, Finance, Operations, and Technology - Translate strategic business priorities into platform initiatives and delivery plans - Present roadmaps, architectural direction, risks, and ROI to leadership and governance forums - Serve as escalation point for cross-functional and delivery challenges - **Delivery, Agile & Execution Oversight