16 Oct
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Quarks Technosoft
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Bengaluru
16 Oct
Quarks Technosoft
Bengaluru
">Salesforce Practice Head
15-22 Years Bengaluru
- Salesforce Practice
- business development
- Account farming
- service cloud
- sales cloud
Job Description - Salesforce Practice Head
Experience: 15+ Years
Role: Salesforce Practice Head
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Bangalore
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Salesforce Practice Head to build, scale, and lead the Salesforce practice at Quarks.
This is a business leadership role with end-to-end responsibility for practice growth, revenue, profitability, account expansion, business development, delivery excellence, capability building, and talent development .
The ideal candidate should combine strong Salesforce domain knowledge with commercial acumen and should have demonstrated experience in growing a Salesforce services business, managing strategic enterprise accounts, building high-performing teams, and creating sustainable revenue pipelines.
The candidate will work closely with Sales, Delivery, Technology, Talent Acquisition, and senior leadership to establish Quarks as a strong Salesforce services partner.
Key Responsibilities1. Practice Strategy & Growth
- Define and execute the overall strategy and growth roadmap for the Salesforce practice.
- Identify priority Salesforce capabilities, industries, service offerings, and market opportunities.
- Build differentiated Salesforce propositions, accelerators, reusable assets, and solution frameworks.
- Define annual business plans, revenue targets, investment priorities, and capability development plans.
- Identify opportunities to expand into emerging Salesforce areas including Data Cloud, Agentforce, AI-driven automation, and enterprise integration .
- Develop industry-specific Salesforce offerings aligned with customer needs and market demand.
2. Revenue, P&L; & Operational Ownership
- Own practice-level revenue, profitability, gross margin, utilization, and resource planning.
- Build and maintain revenue forecasts and practice-level financial plans.
- Monitor project margins, resource utilization, bench strength, and hiring requirements.
- Balance growth investments with operational efficiency and profitability.
- Work closely with leadership on capacity planning, hiring, and practice expansion.
- Establish measurable KPIs for growth, delivery performance, customer satisfaction, and operational health.
3. Business Development & Go-to-Market
- Build a strong Salesforce sales pipeline across new and existing clients.
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities in collaboration with Sales and Account Management teams.
- Lead solutioning, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, client presentations, and commercial discussions.
- Develop Salesforce-specific go-to-market strategies and service propositions.
- Support strategic sales conversations with senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Contribute directly to conversion of opportunities into Salesforce engagements.
- Create repeatable GTM models for targeted industries and solution areas.
4.
Account Management & Farming
- Manage and grow strategic Salesforce accounts.
- Build strong relationships with CIOs, CTOs, Business Heads, Digital Leaders, and other senior client stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities for upselling, cross-selling, and expanding Salesforce capabilities within existing accounts.
- Develop structured account growth plans for key customers.
- Work closely with delivery teams to proactively identify additional business opportunities.
- Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction, retention, and long-term account growth.
5. Salesforce Ecosystem & Alliance Management
- Develop and strengthen relationships within the Salesforce ecosystem.
- Engage with Salesforce account executives, partner teams, and solution specialists.
- Explore co-selling, joint GTM, partner-led opportunities, and ecosystem-driven business development.
- Drive Salesforce certifications and partner competency development across the practice.
- Build relationships with complementary technology partners where required.
6. Salesforce Solution & Technology Leadership
- Provide strategic guidance across Salesforce solutions including:
- Sales Cloud
- Service Cloud
- Experience Cloud
- Marketing Cloud
- Data Cloud
- Agentforce
- Integration and API ecosystems
- Participate in solution strategy and architecture discussions for major client engagements.
- Challenge and guide architecture decisions where required while working closely with Solution and Technical Architects.
- Understand enterprise integration, data migration, security, governance, and scalability considerations around Salesforce.
- Stay current with Salesforce platform evolution, AI capabilities, and market trends.
7. Delivery Excellence & Governance
- Provide executive oversight across major Salesforce programs and engagements.
- Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines, budgets, quality standards, and client expectations.
- Establish strong delivery governance and risk-management mechanisms.
- Review project health, escalations, delivery risks, and account-level issues.
- Ensure consistent implementation standards and best practices across Salesforce engagements.
- Support delivery leaders during critical client situations and program escalations.
8. Talent & Capability Building
- Build and lead a high-performing Salesforce organization across consulting, architecture, engineering, delivery, and pre-sales.
- Define the required organization structure and leadership layer for the practice.
- Develop hiring and workforce plans aligned to business growth.
- Drive Salesforce certification and continuous capability development programs.
- Build succession plans and develop future practice leaders.
- Establish mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and reusable delivery practices across teams.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 15+ years of overall experience with significant experience in Salesforce consulting, delivery, solutioning, and services leadership.
- Proven experience in a Salesforce Practice Head, Practice Leader, Delivery Leader, Business Unit Leader, or similar senior leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience in building or scaling a Salesforce services practice or portfolio.
- Solid commercial and financial acumen with experience managing revenue, margins, utilization, and business forecasts.
- Proven experience in account farming, upselling, cross-selling, and revenue expansion.
- Strong business development and pre-sales experience including proposals, solutioning, and client presentations.
- Experience managing large enterprise clients and building CXO-level relationships.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, architecture, implementation, and delivery models.
- Experience managing large distributed teams and multiple complex engagements.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and leadership capabilities.
Preferred Experience
- Experience managing a multi-million-dollar Salesforce services portfolio.
- Demonstrated track record of significant practice or account revenue growth.
- Experience working with Salesforce alliance or partner organizations.
- Experience building industry-focused Salesforce solutions or offerings.
- Exposure to Salesforce Data Cloud, Agentforce, and AI-led transformation initiatives.
- Experience managing global customers and distributed delivery teams.
Success Measures
The Salesforce Practice Head will be measured on:
- Salesforce practice revenue growth.
- Practice profitability and gross margins.
- Sales pipeline and opportunity conversion.
- Growth of strategic accounts.
- New client acquisition.
- Utilization and resource efficiency.
- Customer satisfaction and retention.
- Salesforce capability and certification growth.
- Quality and predictability of delivery.
- Strength and scalability of the Salesforce leadership and delivery organization.
Ideal Candidate Profile
We are looking for a business-oriented Salesforce leader who can operate across strategy, sales, technology, delivery, and people leadership .
The ideal candidate should have demonstrated experience in:
Building capability Winning business Growing accounts Delivering successfully Scaling the practice profitably.
This role requires someone who is comfortable owning business outcomes and not only managing Salesforce delivery.
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