Sales Assistant/SalesForce™  CRM Administrator

February 2017

Job owner: open

Reports to: Tibor Dienes, Global Director Sales & Distribution

Responsibility:

  • SalesForce™ CRM Administrator
    • Ensure data is entered, retrieve reports, monitor trends, continue to develop the relevant elements and links in the CRM system.
    • Develop the Tecflower specific user handbook for Tecflower users
    • Act as 1st level user support
    • Collection of upgrade needs
    • Install and retrieve standard reports from SalesForce (contract status reports, sales pipeline reports, activity reports, margin reports, retroactive as well as forward looking)
    • Develop and maintain relevant templates (call/visits reports, letters, presentations, offers, order confirmation, invoices, standard terms & conditions)
    • Check document management system (offer, contracts, call reports, account plans)
    • Develop a Global Product Code System (=each product version has a unique code, each source has a unique code, each customer has a unique code)
    • Follow up of technical and content quality issues
  • Support the Commercial Director
    • Travel/appointments arrangements
    • Travel Expense reports
    • Reports & presentations
    • Market research (customers, contacts, competitors)
    • Maintain overview on the Tecflower team calender (absence/vacation days, team meetings)
  • Selected order-to-cash activitites:
    • draft offer letters and contracts
    • collect the demand forecast from Sales and deliver to Manufacturing Director
    • contact for manufacturing in case of production rescheduling
    • contact for logistics in case of logistics rescheduling
    • Subject Matter Expert on custom regulations, VAT etc.

Goals/Measurement of Success for 2017:

  • Tecflower team level of happiness with the support
  • Contact-to-order and order-to-cash process is well documented in the SalesForce™ system  by Q4, 2017
  • Established as SalesForce™ Subject Matter Expert
  • Tecflower specific SalesForce™ user handbook is in place Q4, 2017
  • Ongoing update and maintenance of the SalesForce™ content
  • Standard reports from SalesForce™ (contract status reports, sales pipeline reports, activity reports, margin reports, retroactive as well as forward looking) are active by Q4, 2017
  • Document management system (offer, contracts, call reports, account plans) is established in SalesForce™
  • Global Product Code System (=each product version has a unique code, each source has a unique code, each customer has a unique code) is in place by end of the year 2017

Skills & Personal traits of the candidate

  • Fluency in Swiss German/German and in English
  • Experience in working with databases
  • Several years of professional experience in an office environment
  • Can work with and through other people (is positive, communicative, friendly, persuasive)
  • Likes to develop standard operating procedures (is accurate, careful, systematic).
  • Thinks ahead, is flexible to adapt to the ever-changing needs in a young business.
  • Ready to challenge management on the subject SalesForce™
  • Proactive

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