Director, Industry Advisor - Oil & Gas (Energy)

at Salesforce in Chicago, Illinois, United States Job Description To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job CategorySales Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword

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Department Description:

The Industry Advisor team is a specialized, growing team within Salesforce. Our primary role is to accelerate Salesforce growth by establishing industry credibility, best practice and thought leadership in the industries we serve. Our deep industry experience, elevated points of view and non-sales "advisor" approach is the secret sauce for Salesforce's distribution teams. We are the closest thing Salesforce has to a customer internally and we consistently bring an industry lens to everything we do, ensuring Salesforce is seen as a thought leader, strategic partner and trusted subject matter expert in the industries we support. Role Description We are seeking a dynamic leader to join our Advisory team as the Industry Advisor Director for oil and gas. In this role, you will collaborate with customers and a number of cross-functional groups within Salesforce. Your responsibilities will include developing a strong point of view, supporting strategy for oil and gas, staying abreast of industry trends, and identifying the best opportunities for Salesforce growth in the industry. Additionally, you will engage with customers, collaborate with field leadership teams on strategic customer engagements, approaches, industry events, and localized initiatives. As an advisor to C-level executives at customers, your role will involve ensuring that we effectively listen to the voice of the customer and build lasting partnerships. The ideal candidate will have experience across multiple roles within oil and gas. Specifically experience across up, mid and downstream, oilfield services, retail fuels and other related domains is desired. Ideally this experience intersects with technology across operations, customers, assets and AI related digital transformation initiatives. Furthermore, you should have a comprehensive knowledge of industry trends and how they impact customers. Familiarity with Salesforce's solutions and capabilities in the manufacturing market is crucial. Excellent presentation skills are desired as you will be the face of the industry and the face of Salesforce working with a number of key customer stakeholders. You will work cross-functionally with a number of internal stakeholders, including sales, marketing, product, solution engineering, enterprise architecture, sales programs, enablement and others. Ability to travel The core responsibilities will include: Industry Expertise

• Leverage our deep industry experience to bring a non-sales perspective on areas of the industry.

Focus on sub-verticals and timely topics to elevate customer conversations, increase field acumen and create internal and external conversation with influential leaders in the industry. We are solution agnostic across the power of the full customer360 and all of Salesforce's offerings. Stakeholder Alignment

• Partner with AMER OU leaders and their business partners to ensure we are aligned to their priorities and strategies in an effort to craft customized and prioritized points of view for customer engagements. Customer and Exec Engagements
• Engage customers in both a 1:1 and 1:many fashion across customer meetings, executive briefings, roundtables and events. Account Strategy
• Trusted advisor and partner to the sales teams in creating relevant, customized points and view and engagements for key.

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