Vice President /GM Professional Services LATAM

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Role Overview:
The Salesforce Professional Services organization plays a critical role in delivering the Agentic Enterprise for Salesforce customers, serving as trusted experts in our agentic technology and delivering value at scale on the Salesforce platform. As Vice President, Operating Unit Lead - LATAM, you will be leading the teams who design, develop, and deliver our portfolio of Professional Services offerings. Ultimately, you will ensure we bring our Professional Services expertise to market in a coordinated way across the region in order to drive product adoption and consumption, improve customer value, and directly impact Salesforce's top and bottom line.

• Strategic Thinker: Ability to translate details into bigger picture implications driving the business forward, challenging the status quo. Understands industry, market and organizational dynamics with the intellectual horse-power to handle growing complexity and ambiguity. Aligns the right resources to the task at hand; foresees and plans around obstacles.
• Talent Management: Has a passion for building great teams - proven ability to develop others who have significantly contributed to company success with a history of making good hiring decisions and developing a strong bench of successors. Champions talent beyond own organization
• Innovate for Growth: Always thinking about how to make improvements; able to implement changes that map to business strategy. Stays abreast of cutting edge technology trends.
• Focus on Customer Success: Builds and maintains relationships with customers; shapes solutions that have significant positive impact on their business.
• Builds Trust and Credibility: Makes decisions based on organization's values - actions are consistent with company's core values. Ability to set clear vision - role models a growth mindset and shares mistakes widely for others to benefit and embraces a learning mentality.
• Lead & Adapt to Change: Thrives in a changing, dynamic environment - Relishes leading even when times are tough and models the attributes of a GREAT leader.
• Courageous Communicator: Must be able to take an unpopular stand if necessary for the betterment of our business. Must encourage a transparent and healthy debate while seeking the best alternative. This leader is looked to for direction in a crisis, faces adversity head on, and is energized by tough challenges.

• Provide industry and account-focused thought leadership and vision for the next generation of Professional Services, leveraging the unique opportunities of our lead position in the market and the Agentic Enterprise.
• Attract top talent, and coach and develop a strong team consistent with our culture.
• Develop an approach to generate unique insights about our customers' unique needs as well as industry trends & sales plays (user groups, advisory councils, etc.)
• Strong collaboration internally with stakeholders in CSG, Sales, Marketing, and Product Teams to operationalize the delivery of Services regionally.
• Proven ability to influence across organizations without direct hierarchical ownership of teams.
• Recognized spokesperson and trusted advisor with customers and analysts (listening, public speaking, writing and negotiating)
• Manage the financial commitments of the operating unit, working with multiple parties, against financial and business metrics.
• Systematize the process for developing new packages and programs. Build a new delivery model for packaged services.
• Enable and evangelize the portfolio internally and externally.
• Collaborate with our internal teams to operationalize the delivery of services for multiple sub-segments.

• 10+ years experience in a professional services leadership position with direct P&L responsibility. Proven track record of quota attainment and delivering exceptional results by building and managing success in bookings, revenue and margin, while growing an annual business portfolio of $100M+.
• 10+ years of work experience with deep industry expertise and knowledge of regional-specific challenges, regulations, and expectations
• Track record in product and business model innovation - approach to create unique customer insights and convert them into replicable, scalable, profitable service offers
• Proven success at leading transformational projects to deliver customer outcomes through technology
• Senior leader able to operate effectively with C-level executives
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills with the ability to think strategically as well as ability to handle details
• Demonstrated experience leading product, marketing, and delivery teams.
• Action oriented and results driven.
• Strong organizational and management skills to manage multiple projects, responsibilities, and staff.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills demonstrated by an ability to grow and nurture relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• High energy and passion for the job.
• Located geographically within Latin America region.
• Fluent in Portuguese and/or Spanish language

• 5+ years at Salesforce or in the Salesforce ecosystem
• 10+ years of experience in a Product/Program Management role
• Experience in Cloud Computing
• MBA and technical disciplines
• Product Management certification
• Program Management certification