dentsu internationalPlatform Director, Sales & Client Management [Dual Role]
Jan. 2020 - Feb. 2022London, England, United Kingdom• Owner of the Global Sales technology stack across all dentsu international brands
• Technology owner for the Global Salesforce instance, and governance owner for all legacy CRM instances across the DI group
• Leader of the Sales Technology Centre of Excellence, with team members across AMER, EMEA and APAC. Team members include Project Execution, Business Analysis, Development, Testing, Release Management and Comms & Change.
• Technology partner to the Global Sales function. Working in tandem to understand the vision and strategy of the sales team to create a best in class technology platform to support and enable client facing teams.
• Focus on team member growth and development. Identifying key strengths to ensure CoE members are in the correct positions, whilst creating opportunities for development through project delivery and elevated responsibilities.
• Creation of a new offshore delivery CoE to add capacity while remaining cost-effective to the group. CoE roles split across on, near and off-shore based on responsibilities and delivery duties. Global coverage of Salesforce platform now in place.
• Delivery of global Content Management platform to support client pitches and storage of confidential client data. Consolidation of legacy sites to new global instance to provide standardisation for the group.
• Working in partnership with client facing teams to improve the partnership with technology providers (such as Salesforce, Adobe etc).
• Actively creating an end-to-end integrated-enterprise resource planning solution to support the client
journey from lead generation through project delivery and into contract payments. Integrating Salesforce and all Global Business Platforms to create a seamless, integrated journey through technology, and in line with the new business model.