Introduction
The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and electronic services. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world.
The Economist Group has recently implemented a B2C Salesforce instance to support over 1.2m subscribers and this is centred around Salesforce using Experience, Service & Marketing Clouds and includes installed packages and integrations, such as Limio and Zuora. In addition The Economist Group has a global implementation of Salesforce Sales Cloud and Experience Cloud, which supports business units in Economist Impact, Economist Intelligence and Economist Education Foundation and Corporate Enterprise Subscriptions. We are in the process of a transformation programme to re-implement our Sales Cloud instance into one Salesforce org, improving and rationalising business processes and user experience with out of the box and up to date capabilities.
This role consists of supporting platform administration, user management, ticket management, case triage and application & end user support.
The successful candidate will work in a small team of Administrators, supported by a Team Lead. This is an exciting role for an experienced Salesforce Administrator to work alongside a team of Platform Administrators who are new to the Salesforce ecosystem. You will therefore be a critical part of the Platforms Operations team to support the business and your colleagues.
Accountabilities
In this role you would be expected to:
1. Provide support for the day to day user access and accessibility requests on Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
2. Perform administrative tasks such as setting up users, assigning permission sets, profiles and installed package licences.
3. Build reports & dashboards.
4. Working closely with the business to manage licence requests and assignments.
5. Updating User access and accessibility tickets in Jira.
6. Perform small and basic Salesforce enhancements, such as creating new fields, updating picklist values, page layouts.
7. Support & coach more junior colleagues with Salesforce requests and troubleshooting
8. Escalating Licence issues to Senior Team Members as necessary.
9. Attend daily stand up meetings and team meetings.
Experience, skills and professional attributes
The ideal skills for this role are:
10. Understanding of Salesforce User Management;
11. Salesforce Administration Certification essential, and Sales Cloud & Platform App Builder desired
12. Salesforce Trailhead badges
13. A proven track record of teamwork with non-technical client staff and colleagues
14. Stellar communication skills, verbal and written
15. Ability to prioritise tickets to meet defined SLAs
16. Work management tooling, such as Jira, is preferable but not required
17. Energetic approach to work and a desire to learn
The Economist Group values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, gender identity, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, age or marital status.