Salesforce Engineering Manager

In the position of Salesforce Engineering Manager, you will lead the organization responsible for the Salesforce platform that supports how the company sells, executes in stores, and manages trade promotions across the business. Accountable for ensuring the Salesforce platform is reliable, scalable, and aligned with business priorities, setting direction, building and managing the engineering organization, and ensuring the right decisions are made to support revenue growth, trade effectiveness, and operational stability., * Provide leadership and oversight for the Salesforce platform that supports core sales and trade processes essential to running an over $8B Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) business, ensuring the system remains stable, trusted, and fit for purpose.

• Responsible for building out a team to support Salesforce projects
• Define the long-term strategy for Salesforce across Sales, Retail Execution, and Trade Promotion Management, ensuring the platform evolves to meet changing business needs while minimizing operational and financial risk.
• Lead, develop, and manage the Salesforce Engineering team by setting goals, defining responsibilities, and ensuring the organization has the skills and capacity needed to support a large, complex commercial operation.
• Define how Salesforce work is planned, prioritized, and delivered, including standards, decision-making processes, and controls that support consistent delivery and platform stability.
• Partner with senior leaders in Sales, Finance, and IT to assess demand, set priorities, and make trade-off decisions that balance speed, value, risk, and long-term sustainability.
• Hold teams and partners accountable for delivery results, platform performance, and operational readiness, while ensuring appropriate escalation paths and support models are in place.
• Work closely with Sales, Sales Operations, Finance, and IT leadership to ensure Salesforce capabilities directly support revenue execution, trade effectiveness, and business performance.
• Oversee Salesforce’s integration with finance and data platforms, ensuring end-to-end processes and data flows are reliable enough to support reporting, forecasting, and executive decision-making

• Prefer a Bachelor’s Degree in the field of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in Enterprise software or application development, with significant hands-on leadership of Salesforce Engineering Team
• Between 3-5 years of experience in owning Salesforce platforms that support Sales organizations, ideally within a CPG environment.
• Leadership experience required
• Advanced, hands-on expertise with the Salesforce platform supporting Sales, including strong working knowledge of Retail Execution and Trade Promotion Management functionality. Preferred Certifications: Salesforce certifications that demonstrate depth in development, administration, or architecture are preferred, particularly at the advanced or architect level. Integration, data architecture, or middleware-related certifications are also beneficial.