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The Salesforce Professional Services business is growing at an outstanding rate. In order to evolve and meet our customers' increased needs and expectations, we are creating new ways of working rooted in deep industry expertise and relevance. As VP, Military Sector Lead you will be leading the teams who design, develop, and deliver our portfolio of Professional Services offerings across the U.S. Department of Defense and key clients within the Aerospace and Defense industry. You will ensure we bring our services expertise to market in a coordinated way across the segment in order to improve customer satisfaction, increase product usage and adoption, and directly impact Salesforce's top and bottom line. At the high level, this includes developing a deep understanding not only of the cloud technology landscape, but also unique industry-specific challenges, regulations, and expectations. You will craft both long and short term strategies that unearth opportunities to build and drive customer value, and develop a consistent industry strategy to help scale our business. At the more tactical level, this role will lead and handle the Military Sector in its entirety, driving utilization, bookings, and revenue across all customer account tiers. You will work cross-functionally with our license sales teams to ensure go-to-market motions are coordinated to drive end-to-end success for our customers. This role will also partner on the development of new industry-specific services products and programs, based on insightful customer engagement and understanding, including the implementation of mission-critical solutions and launching pilots that will allow us to co-create new offerings with our customers to confirm market fit based on emerging trends. You will interact regularly with our distribution organization, specifically your sector counterparts, as well as other teams within the company to provide a comprehensive and complete view of business goals related to the set of service products you need, the technology capabilities this requires, and the content needed to support these offerings across the industry. Leadership Qualities:
Strategic Thinker: Ability to translate details into bigger picture implications driving the business forward, challenging the status quo. Understands industry, market and organizational dynamics with the intellectual horse-power to handle growing complexity and ambiguity. Aligns the right resources to the task at hand; foresees and plans around obstacles. Talent Management: Has a passion for building great teams - confirmed ability to develop others who have significantly contributed to company success with a history of making good hiring decisions and developing a strong bench of successors. Champions talent beyond their own organization. Innovate for Growth: Always thinking about how to make improvements; able to implement changes that map to business strategy. Stays abreast of ground breaking technology trends. Focus on Customer Success: Builds and maintains relationships with customers; shapes solutions that have significant positive impact on their business. Builds Trust and Credibility: Makes decisions based on organization's values - actions are consistent with company's core values. Ability to set clear vision - role models a growth mindset and shares mistakes widely for others to benefit, and embraces a learning mentality. Lead & Adapt to Change: Thrives in a changing, dynamic environment - Relishes leading even when times are tough and models the attributes of a GREAT leader. Courageous Communicator: Able to take an unpopular stand if necessary for the betterment of our business. Must encourage a transparent and healthy debate while seeking the best alternative. This leader is looked to for direction in a crisis, faces adversity head on, and is energized by tough challenges.
Responsibilities:
Provide sector and account-focused thought leadership and vision for the next generation of Professional Services, using the unique opportunities of our lead position in the market and the cloud model. Attract top talent, and coach and develop a strong team consistent with our culture. Develop an approach to generate insights about our customers' unique needs as well as industry trends & sales plays (user groups, advisory councils, etc.) Strong collaboration internally with team members in CSG, Sales, Marketing, and Product Teams to operationalize the delivery of services by segment. Ability to influence across organizations without direct hierarchical ownership of teams. Recognized spokesperson and trusted advisor with customers and analysts (listening, public speaking, writing, and negotiating) Manage the financial commitments of the operating unit, working with multiple parties, against financial and business metrics. Systematize the process for developing new packages and programs. Build a new delivery model for packaged services. Enable and evangelize the portfolio internally and externally. Collaborate with our internal teams to operationalize the delivery of services for multiple sub-segments.
An ideal candidate possesses the following skills and experiences:
20+ years experience working in the U.S. Department of Defense industry in a senior leadership position. Deep industry expertise and knowledge of industry-specific challenges, regulations, and expectations in the Defense industry 10+ years of experience leading, managing, coaching, and developing staff Track record in product and business model innovation -approach to create unique customer insights and convert them into replicable, scalable, profitable service offers Shown success at leading transformational projects to deliver customer outcomes through technology Senior leader able to operate effectively with C-level executives Strong business acumen and analytical skills with ability to think strategically as well as ability to handle details Strong organizational and leadership skills to handle multiple projects, responsibilities and staff. Exceptional relationship-building skills demonstrated by ability to grow and nurture relationships with internal partners. Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority. A well-defined sense of diplomacy, including solid negotiation and conflict resolution Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.
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