Salesforce Senior Consultant

Job Description

Lead transformation. Architect the future.

Are you ready to design impactful Salesforce solutions that help organizations scale, innovate, and thrive? At Accenture, we are looking for a Senior Salesforce Consultant, focusing on the delivery of large and complex IT projects. You know how to use Salesforce to creatively design, prototype, and implement solutions for your client’s unique challenges.

How we innovate at Accenture

Our Salesforce Business Group brings together tech expertise, industry know-how, and a collaborative spirit. From day one, you’ll work with diverse teams on meaningful projects, helping clients solve their biggest business challenges. You’ll be supported to grow through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and flexible career paths in a group that values learning and celebrates success.

What you’ll do

• People: You are a trusted team player and problem-solver who supports and mentors junior consultants. You actively share knowledge, stay up to date with new Salesforce capabilities, and help strengthen the team’s expertise.
• Processes: You own the overall solution blueprint and roadmap, do solutioning and effort estimation for requirements, and have the ability to elicit requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Technology: You master Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. You have knowledge and experience with Salesforce integrations and a strong background in delivery methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and DevOps, as well as associated tools like Jira, Confluence, and Slack.
• Data: You have a solid understanding of data modeling principles in Salesforce.
• Design & Workshops: You lead stakeholder workshops and discovery sessions to shape solution direction, translate business needs into Salesforce designs, and ensure alignment between business goals, technology, and delivery teams.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree, with a minimum of 4-7 years of progressive experience in Salesforce delivery management, business analysis, and technology implementation in full life-cycle enterprise CRM engagement, of which at least 3 years’ experience is in a consulting environment.
• Extensive solution definition experience including evident experience and knowledge of application and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, limitations, and best practices, with demonstrated experience using advanced Salesforce.com development tools and techniques and relevant certifications in Salesforce Sales, Service, and Salesforce Architect.
• Experience with data modelling, SQL, integration with Web Services (SOAP / REST / XML), WS-* stack, and WSDL is an added advantage to support user testing.
• Advanced understanding of Salesforce Sharing Security: Profiles, Permission Sets, Roles, Record Visibility, and understanding of the Salesforce deployment lifecycles: Sandboxes, Licenses, Deployment tools, SFDX.
• Ability to engage with senior clients in a business-centric, business outcome-oriented dialogue, ability to articulate the relevant platform value proposition, and fluency in Dutch and/or English, both spoken and written is mandatory.

Bonus points if you have

• Customer-oriented mindset and strong client relationship-building skills.
• Proven ability to build, manage, and foster a team-oriented environment.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and management skills.
• Experience and certification in Salesforce Agentforce, Consumer Goods Cloud, or Financial Services Cloud.

What we offer

• Impactful work: Architect cutting-edge solutions for some of the world’s leading companies across industries.
• Career growth: Access to high-quality training, Salesforce certifications, mentoring, and fast-tracked leadership opportunities.
• Flexibility: Enjoy hybrid working, flexible hours (including 4x9 schedules), and time-off programs like FlexMoment and FlexDay.
• Mobility benefits: Choose your commute — electric bike, lease car, or a public transport budget.
• Well-being perks: Benefit from wellness programs, annual bonus, Accenture shares, pension scheme, and more.
• Community & culture: Be part of a collaborative Salesforce community that values innovation and celebrates with Friday drinks, team events, and more.

About the Salesforce Business Group

You will be part of the Salesforce Business Group within Accenture Technology. Our group consists of highly motivated colleagues with diverse backgrounds. From consultants to developers, managers to architects, we form diverse client teams to create value and deliver on projects. Our group is open for you to shape your own career and our colleagues are willing to help you at each stage. There is a strong focus on learning, and we regularly organize knowledge-sharing sessions to inspire our group. We work according to our strengths and by doing so, create a trusting work environment in which the team can rely on each other to improve overall performance. We are also a group that is known for celebrating our successes.