Salesforce Functional Lead - Saudi Arabia

Salesforce Functional Lead Location: Riyadh or Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: you're only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for ambitious companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. We make this standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design and technology to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone. We use these values to fuel superior results: Lock Arms We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good. Show Hustle We're not ones to sit on our hands and wait. We anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional. Embrace Change From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what's next. Elevate Empathy We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability. Never Settle We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas. About the role We're looking for a Salesforce Functional Lead based in Saudi Arabia to shape and lead the functional design of a large-scale Salesforce programme for a major enterprise client in the Kingdom. You'll need the confidence to lead cross-functional teams, the ability to partner with other project leads, and the client advocacy skills to manage stakeholders at every level of an organisation. You'll bring a strong passion for experience strategy, experience design and digital platform development, and a track record of running substantial client projects and driving success at account level. You'll be at your best building today's agreed solution while also making the case for tomorrow's next step. You enjoy working through the complexity that large digital programmes bring, and you inspire and motivate your team every day to do compelling, commercially successful work. What you'll do Client leadership - Act as Functional Lead on the engagement, making sure delivery succeeds on scope, deliverables, budget, client satisfaction, business outcomes and team engagement - Become a trusted advisor to the client, keeping communication open and guiding efforts to manage and exceed expectations - Build and sustain strategic client relationships, and run programmes that draw out and answer the client's needs - Anticipate the client's needs, concerns and input, and argue for high-ROI solutions, even where they challenge current thinking on process, systems and customers - Understand the client's business, internal dynamics, industry and competition, so you can bring the right solutions at the right time - Run the account proactively: spot opportunities, foresee risks and stay ahead of them while actively contributing account growth Functional delivery - Align platform capabilities with business goals and strategy - Translate business requirements into functional requirements, and guide their implementation in line with business goals - Work with a multi-disciplinary team of project managers, designers, developers, architects and business experts to produce bold ideas and deliver efficiently - Contribute to deliverables such as digital roadmaps, MVP definition, feature prioritisation, requirements documentation, UX recommendations and agile delivery reviews - Train the client's team so they adopt the new system Practice and growth - Mentor associate delivery team members - Explain Horizontal Digital's Salesforce practice capabilities, offerings and value - Contribute to practice thought leadership, offerings and innovative approaches to client solutions - Take part in practice events and training, keep your certifications current, and stay up to date with the Salesforce ecosystem and wider technology trends Activities and deliverables - Plan and run discovery workshops covering customer journeys and business processes - Carry out current-state analysis (existing business processes, personas, journeys and channels) - Define and document the to-be state (business processes, journeys and channels), e.g. sales and service processes - Translate high-level customer journeys and business processes into Salesforce functionality - Elicit, analyse and prioritise requirements - Write and refine user stories and epics in Jira, following good Jira practice - Run working sessions, stand-ups and product/functionality demos - Plan and run UAT, including the UAT plan and documentation - Plan and deliver user training - Produce journey, flow and process diagrams, including L2 and L3 business process diagrams that add functional and imple

Note: The posting does not include a clearly delineated Qualifications or Requirements section beyond responsibilities and activities. The role implies senior Salesforce functional leadership with client leadership, delivery, mentoring, and certifications staying current, but no explicit bullet list of minimum qualifications or prerequisites is provided.

Client leadership: Act as Functional Lead on the engagement, ensuring delivery succeeds on scope, deliverables, budget, client satisfaction, business outcomes and team engagement; become a trusted advisor to the client, manage expectations; build and sustain strategic client relationships and run programmes; anticipate client needs and advocate high-ROI solutions. Functional delivery: align platform capabilities with business goals; translate business requirements into functional requirements and guide implementation; collaborate with project managers, designers, developers, architects and business experts to deliver; contribute to deliverables such as digital roadmaps, MVP definition, feature prioritisation, requirements documentation, UX recommendations and agile delivery reviews; train the client’s team. Practice and growth: mentor associate delivery team members; explain Horizontal Digital’s Salesforce practice capabilities; contribute to thought leadership, offerings, and innovative approaches; participate in events and training, keep certifications current. Activities and deliverables: plan and run discovery workshops; perform current-state analysis; define to-be state; translate journeys and processes into Salesforce functionality; elicit and prioritise requirements; write user stories and epics in Jira; run working sessions, stand-ups and demos; plan and run UAT and documentation; plan and deliver user training; produce journey, flow and process diagrams including L2/L3 diagrams.