Salesforce Administrator

Main duties and responsibilities

Salesforce Administrator is responsible for configuring, customizing, and managing the Salesforce platform to meet the needs of the company by managing user accounts, data integrity, security settings, automation, reporting, and overall system health. Salesforce Administrator is working closely with stakeholders to ensure efficient use of the platform to its fullest potential and solves business problems through Salesforce functionalities.

Salesforce Administrator is trusted advisors on all things around Salesforce. Is the vital bridge between business and technology. Challenges the current setup and ways of working, to help with Salesforce adoption and use.

Key responsibilities of a Salesforce Administrator include:

User Management: Creating and managing user accounts, assigning profiles and roles, managing access levels, and ensuring proper data security.

System Configuration: Customizing fields, page layouts, and record types to align with business processes.

Data Management: Importing and exporting data, maintaining data quality through validation rules, and managing data cleansing processes.

Security Management: Setting up sharing rules, organization-wide defaults (OWDs), and managing data visibility based on user permissions.

Automation: Designing and implementing flows, approval processes, and triggers to automate repetitive tasks.

Reporting and Dashboards: Creating custom reports, dashboards, and visualizations to provide insights and track key metrics.

Training and Support: Providing user training on Salesforce features and functionality, troubleshooting issues, and answering user questions.

System Upgrades and Maintenance: Managing Salesforce updates, performing system health checks, and ensuring smooth transition to new versions.

Requirements Gathering: Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into Salesforce configurations.

Integration Management: Setting up integrations with other systems to streamline data flow.

Collaboration: Collaborate with business support, other IT and security teams.

Duties and responsibilities can evolve after arrangement.

No direct reports

Reporting and collaboration

IT (1st, 2nd and 3rd level of support)

Salesforce Support Team

Commercials / Sales

Operations

Finance

Product Managers

Preferable skills and competencies

Strong understanding of Salesforce platform features and functionalities

Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with different stakeholders

Analytical and problem-solving abilities to identify and resolve system issues

Data management skills including data cleansing and validation

Basic understanding of coding or scripting can be beneficial

Project management skills to plan and execute Salesforce implementations

Education and qualifications

University degree or Business school degree

Salesforce Administrator Certification

Experience

3-5 years of experience as Salesforce Administrator.

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