Sales Alliance Sr. Specialist - Salesforce Product Manager .
Ally and Your Career
The Opportunity
The Sales Alliance Sr. Specialist – Salesforce Product Manager role will lead the team’s new charter to serve as the business product owner of Ally Auto Finance’s instance of the Salesforce platform. This included developing an overall product roadmap, strategy, and all related business cases for the platform. In addition, this role will be responsible for collaborating with key stakeholders to address key gaps/opportunities.
The Work Itself
- Partner with regional sales teams to identify gaps and enhancement opportunities in order to drive incremental sales and operating efficiencies
- Manage the intake process and prioritization of all new functionality related to the Auto Finance sales team
- Aid in outlining all relevant requirements and leading testing efforts
- Understand all unused Salesforce tools/capabilities to determine enhancement opportunities
- Serve as the first line of defense for all platform-related escalations and troubleshooting
- Document requirements, define scope and objectives and formulate solutions to deliver business strategies to key dates
- Work closely with business leaders to provides insight for the development of new strategies, sales processes and automation using Salesforce
- Leads and executes independently on enterprise projects using agile project management methodologies
- Communicates with matrix partners and stakeholders to communicate findings and raise high risk issues to management
The Skills You Bring
- Bachelor's degree required; PMP certification is ideal
- 3+ years in auto lending or financial services industry is preferred with a focus on project management
- Familiarity with Salesforce is required
- Salesforce administration and developer certifications is preferred
- Extremely organized with strong time-management skills
- Proven experience with leading and managing projects using agile project management methodologies
- Advanced knowledge of MS PowerPoint, Excel, and PowerBI.
- Ability to filter through large quantities of data and pull out themes and significant trends.
- Ability to influence cross-functional business partners
- Flexible and adaptive to changing situations.
- Strong relationship building skills and experience operating within a matrix organization.
- Initiative to discover innovative ways for continuous improvement.
- Creative problem solver.
How We'll Have Your Back
Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
- Time Away: 11 paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, and 8 hours of volunteer time off, yearly (paid time off is prorated based on start date)
- Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
- Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
- Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
- Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
- To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.