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Senior Director, Salesforce Retail Industry Lead

This role is for a Senior Director, Salesforce Retail Industry Lead, focusing on Retail & Consumer Goods practices. Requires 10+ years of industry experience, Salesforce product knowledge, strong leadership skills, and the ability to travel up to 50%. Permanent position with a salary range of $189,000-$359,000.
🌎 Country
United States
🏝️ Location
Unknown
📄 Contract
Full-time
🪜 Seniority
Director
💰 Range
100K+
💱 Currency
$ USD
💸 Pay
$161K - $359K (Yr.)
🗓️ Discovered
September 5, 2025
📍 Location detailed
Columbus, OH
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🧠 Skills
#Unknown
Role description
Job Title: Senior Director of Retail & Consumer Goods Industry - Salesforce Slalom is seeking a senior industry leader who will be responsible for creating and owning our overall vision, strategy, prioritization, and client offerings for our Retail & Consumer Goods practice. This includes Retail & Consumer Goods industry, and sub-sectors, including, alcohol and beverage, household goods, beauty, apparel, and personal care. You are experienced in negotiating complex Salesforce deals, cultivating and nurturing key relationships within Slalom and Salesforce, and passionate about attracting and growing industry specific talent. You are experienced in delivering Retail & Consumer Goods Salesforce solutions, driving sales cycles, and managing the operations of Retail & Consumer Goods practices globally. You should be recognized within the industry as a strategic thought leader with the ability to build high performing teams and provide solution expertise specific to the industry leveraging extensive client experience in the Salesforce ecosystem. What You’ll Do • Accountability for the industry practice, including establishing our point of view and strategic approach to growth for the practice. You will be responsible for delivery quality, sales, recruiting, consulting, and all operational aspects, including: • Driving overall growth of the Salesforce Retail & Consumer Goods practice through a combination of business development, talent management, oversight of delivery work, and thought leadership. • Maximizing team performance through an effective team approach that increases productivity and job satisfaction. • Managing engagement risk related to Retail & Consumer Goods projects, project economics including planning and budgeting when there is an industry cloud engagement on a project, defining deliverable content, and confirming buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client. • Ensuring practice achieves utilization target • Utilization targets will leverage your executive leadership on engagements and knowledge as the subject matter expert. • Responsible for the profitability of the Salesforce Retail & Consumer Goods practice, achieving revenue target expectations for direct influenced sales. • Identifies, creates, executes, and drives the development of the most appropriate Salesforce offerings related to Retail & Consumer Goods that drive revenue and pipeline growth. • Provides oversight and governance of all sold and managed Salesforce Retail & Consumer Goods projects through practice leadership and establishment of best practices. • Drives business development with the proper information, tools, and subject matter expertise to sell engagements within their solutions and offerings, partnering with industry sellers. • Builds and develops relationship/partnership with local market teams, aligning on sales pursuits, resource capacity and capabilities, and awareness across global markets. • Builds and develops relationships with Salesforce executives, field sales teams, and owns account planning, including key pursuits. • Develops and supports the creation of case studies and Industry specific content • Ideates with industry leaders on the best collaborative approach to scaling opportunities, growing teams, and supporting markets. What You’ll Bring • 10+ years’ Retail & Consumer Goods services expertise and team leadership experience in a large consulting environment • Knowledge of key salesforce products in the RCG space including Commerce, Consumer Goods Cloud and Data Cloud • Previous sales, account management, delivery, and consulting experience • Passionate about Retail & Consumer Goods and technology • Strong relationships with Salesforce and/or Retail & Consumer Goods clients • Able to partner with clients to understand their organizational needs and recommend solutions that add value to their business. • Strong customer service and interpersonal skills • Experienced and adept at aligning teams to work toward a common goal; consistently demonstrates strong people management skills. • Budget and project management experience • Strong coaching and mentoring experience in a sales leadership capacity • Excellent collaboration and team-building skills • Strong process orientation coupled with an ability to work with virtual teams. • Experienced in building relationships with CXOs and business decision makers. • Skilled at leading teams through complex technology solution sales • Creative and innovative; seen as a visionary in your approach. • Expert verbal, written communication skills, business operation skills • Able to travel up to 50% if needed. About Us Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all. Compensation And Benefits Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance. Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range for a Director is $161,000-$281,000. For this position, the base salary pay range for a Senior Director is 189,000-359,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time. EEO and Accommodations Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process. We will accept applications until September 19, 2025