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GXO

Salesforce Lead

Northampton, United Kingdom

Are you looking for a new challenge and the ability to drive your career forward?

Here at GXO, we are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Sales Force Technical Lead who will be responsible for the design, implementation, and support of Salesforce in development of strategic initiatives and ongoing business processes. You will provide technical leadership, guidance, and support to the team to deliver high-quality, scalable, and efficient solutions, in addition to acting as a mentor to peers and junior developers. You will be based out of our central offices in either London or Northampton, and we do ask for flexibility as you will be required to travel as and when needed.

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We're looking to offer a highly competitive salary & package which will be discussed further during telephone interview. Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You'll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you'll do on a typical day:
  • Identify, lead, and deliver efforts to implement well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform and products using industry-standard tools, libraries, and approaches
  • Engage with stakeholders across the business to align priorities, communicate solution design trade-offs and recommendations, and build and execute CRM platform development plans
  • Perform technical solution reviews and provide recommendations to improve adoption and usage
  • Provide technical expertise in Apex coding, Visualforce development, Lightning components, and other Salesforce-related technologies
  • Design user interfaces, tool screens, and end-user workflows to maximize understandability of information, ease of use, and alignment to GXO standards

What you need to succeed at GXO:
  • A high level of experience across multiple Salesforce products (e.g. Sales, Service, Marketing, Einstein Analytics, Tableau, Commerce, MuleSoft, Pardot, etc.) with a depth of expertise in specific clouds
  • Strong technology leadership with outstanding presentation, communication, and facilitation skills
  • Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies, systems architecture, and expert ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions
  • Experience with Python or Java programming and understanding of object-oriented concepts, abstraction/inheritance, as well as experience with object-oriented languages.

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team - energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.

Client-provided location(s): Northampton, UK
Job ID: GXO-1170680300
Employment Type: Other