Salesforce Administrator

Heidrick & Struggles•Chicago, IL

14d•$110,000 - $130,000

About The Position

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.® Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com . The Role: The Salesforce Administrator will design CRM and other digital solutions to fully leverage the Salesforce platform and other tools. The individual will be responsible for administration, configuration, release management, and continual enhancement of our Salesforce ecosystem across multiple clouds and integrations. They promote standardization, data integration, and data quality while also participating in business analysis and technical issue resolution. This role requires an individual who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is comfortable leading both technical and business-oriented projects while maintaining strong governance, data quality, security, and user experience standards. This person works with architects, business analysts, developers, quality assurance analysts, and others throughout the lifecycle to deliver high quality capabilities to drive revenue and reduce costs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
3-5 years of Salesforce.com Administration experience implementing/supporting Sales Cloud on Lightning for a base of at least 300 users.
Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator and Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder.
Experience leveraging and configuring AppExchange products to develop CRM solutions.
Experience with general salesforce setup and configuration such as flows, validation rules, triggers, field updates, page layouts, record types, formula fields, report types etc.
Experience in environment maintenance tasks such as managing admin access, managing sandboxes, handling confidential data, integration configurations.
Knowledge of Data Cloud (Data 360) for unified customer data strategy.
Hands-on with Einstein Analytics/CRM Analytics.
Understanding of Agentforce 360 concepts and readiness for AI-enabled service and automation.
Experience working with Continuous Integration/Deployment tools such as Salesforce DX, GitHub, Copado.
Operational experience in non-Salesforce environments.
Experience in JIRA and GitHub.
Experience with Account Engagement (Pardot), Salesforce Inbox, Service Cloud and/or CPQ.
Experience with Kantata (Kimble), Own Backup, DocuSign.
Excellent communication skills; listening, speaking, writing.
Team player, values input and contribution of team members.
Outcome oriented and delivery focused.
Ability to identify and analyze complex issues and problems and quickly recommend and implement appropriate solutions.
Ability to plan and execute Salesforce projects.
Demonstrates initiative, resourcefulness, innovation, and dependability.
Demonstrates ability to take independent action and proceed beyond directive.
Excellent attention to detail.
Flexible. Responds well to last-minute changes and requests.

Nice To Haves

Certified Salesforce Data Cloud Consultant & Salesforce Agentforce Specialist highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Design and architect the CRM solution to leverage the full capabilities of the Salesforce platform.
Stay current with Salesforce seasonal releases; evaluate, recommend, and implement relevant new capabilities or optimizations.
Manage sandbox environments including refresh planning, data seeding, pre/post refresh steps and reconfigurations.
Manage release and deployment activities following Salesforce DevOps best practices using Salesforce DX, Copado and Git-based workflows.
Manage operational aspects of Saleforce.com with a focus on system configuration and deployments, standardization, data integration, data quality, and technical issue resolution.
Participate in formal governance and change/release management processes.
Proficient on building and maintaining standard and ad hoc reports and dashboards.
Ensure proper security models are in place and maintained for data access.