Salesforce Delivery Lead

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You Are:

A Salesforce Functional Delivery Lead.

You thrive in a team setting where you can use your prodigious creative and analytical powers to decimate problems. Leadership skills? You have them in spades, and you have the top-shelf communication, people, and management abilities to bring out the best in team members. Working in an information systems environment makes you more than happy.

The Work:

• Lead Salesforce.com implementation engagement and provide engagement leadership: Assess engagement performance, risks, issues and impact on solution and service delivery commitments, client relationships, etc.

• Own development of plan to review and manage client expectations throughout delivery and ensure the values we are delivering are in line with client expectations.

• Create an integrated project plan from the individual project plans, showing the high-level flow of project milestones and dependencies across projects. Use the plan to rebalance work and manage variances across projects.

• Lead business and functional requirements definition and prioritization/scoping of requirements

• Monitor and control the quality management process, manage expectations, conduct milestone reviews, manage process performance, conduct continuous improvement and causal analysis activities.

• Monitor all issues that affect the team, project, or program and potential risks. 

• Manage program/project’s financial, resource strategy and contingency

• Disseminate best practices on solution positioning and delivery

• Build and maintain high performance teams

• Support pre-sales activities inclusive of participating in sales calls and proposal development

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s What You Need:

• Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in a Salesforce Delivery/Functional lead role, to include: Project Management, Business Analysis, and Technology implementation in full life-cycle Cloud/CRM engagements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Delivery Lead role, including: running large scale implementations from beginning to end, managing multiple vendors (including pricing and sourcing), helping set governance models and working with C-Level staff (VP/Director and above)

• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading large global delivery teams (50+)

• Experience working with & for a large Consulting company

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years' work experience)

Bonus Points If :

• You have experience supporting the Life Sciences Industry

• You have experience working with AI/ML tools and platforms (e.g., Salesforce Einstein, Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot, or generative AI tools) and an understanding of how AI capabilities can be applied to Life Sciences commercial solutions

• You have experience creating connective tissue across workstreams (e.g., functional, technical, integration, data), anticipating downstream dependencies, and proactively planning to keep delivery on track

• You have demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-technology transformation programs where multiple platforms (e.g., CRM, data, integration, change management) are running in parallel

• You have familiarity with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud (LSC), Health Cloud, or equivalent pharma/biotech CRM platforms and an understanding of how these clouds support commercial and patient-facing use cases

• You have experience delivering projects using Agile, hybrid, or scaled Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, SAFe) and comfort adapting delivery methodology to client context

• You can adapt to dynamic work environment and be creative within a team

• You are customer-oriented and great at building client relationships

• You have a strong background in Cloud Computing solutions --Do you have a passion for using innovative technologies to make a positive impact on business and cod computing strategy, systems design, integration, implementation, and management?

• You have previous experience in leading an Application Functional team (Configuration, customization, Force.com development) or Application Integration team (including data integration/data modeling)

• You have consulting experience with medium to large consulting firms focusing on cloud computing related consulting (solution architecture, storage, SaaS, multi-tenant computing, large scale computing environments, etc.).

• You have experience managing multi-shore projects

• You are PMP and/or other project management certification preferred

• You have Salesforce.com and other cloud platform certifications

• You have executive-level sales support experience in consulting/professional services

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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 07/17/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $132,500 to $302,400

Cleveland $122,700 to $241,900

Colorado $132,500 to $261,300

District of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200

Illinois $122,700 to $261,300

Maryland $132,500 to $261,300

Massachusetts $132,500 to $278,200

Minnesota $132,500 to $261,300

New York $122,700 to $302,400

New Jersey $141,100 to $302,400

Washington $141,100 to $278,200

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