This role requires contact with all areas of the business to gain an understanding of the business requirements, explore the issues faced and assist in identifying and deploying suitable solutions as required to assist with the day to day Sales Operations.

The role also requires contact with the global channel operations teams to ensure that EMEA are kept aware of the projects being undertaken within the channel, their design and their potential future global applicability.

This role will include:

-assist with the transition of the Pricing and Sign Off

-maintenance/distribution of the Pricing Tool for the Sales Teams in EMEA.

-define, develop and deploy Management Information reports and Dashboards from existing systems and data sources as required to assist both management and colleagues perform their day to day roles

-assist Marketing with the use of Salesforce, provide support and training and put forward suggestions for improvement when necessary.

-provide support to other areas of Channel Operations as required to help improve existing working practices within the group

-provide staff training on all tools including Salesforce.com and assist with Clarity when necessary

You must be able to travel freely throughout the Channel to be considered for this role.

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The training delivery will include one2one, classroom tuition and remote training.

The contract will last between 2-3 weeks initially, but may role on longer.

All candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to be considered for this role and   to travel freely.

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Responsibilities will include:

-Requirements gathering

-Proof of concept and solution design

-Technical and non-technical presentations to clients

-Fielding technical questions/queries

-Implementation management and support

-Managing data integration

Ideally certified CON201 and ADM201

This position offers very good opportunities and bonus structure.

You must be able to travel freely throughout the UK to be considered for this role.

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You will be responsible for the delivery of Salesforce/CRM projects, rolling-out new configuration of Salesforce.com to a number of business units simultaneously; responsible for the project, from initiation through to the training and implementation of new functionality, changes and customisations to their global CRM programme using Salesforce.

Specific responsibilities include:

-Producing & delivering functional designs to meet business requirements that are innovative and add value to their CRM programme

-End to end delivery of Salesforce projects for large and complex environments

-Working closely with Salesforce Programme team to drive successful implementations of new projects, adoption, data quality and best practices of use

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The ideal candidate will be responsible for the following:

-Build and maintain deep understanding of SFDC applications

-Consult with business unit administrators and other business resources on approaches to design, configuration, unit testing, and documentation based on the functional requirements of a given change request

-Perform configuration and application setup/support for business unit requests

-Work with other team members to complete delivery of outstanding services to business units

-Keep up-to-date on new SFDC features and provide guidance on what/how client can capitalize on them or how it would solve past issues/work-arounds

-Comply with internal SLAs

-Be certified to Advanced SFDC Administrator Level

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For those that are new to the Cloud or salesforce.com, Cloudforce is an annual event that allows you to ‘Experience at first hand, the mobile, collaborative and social innovations that are driving the Cloud 2 revolution.’

Join salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and cloud leaders VMware and BMC for the enterprise-computing event of the year. Hear from customers who are adopting Chatter in their business to drive collaboration and increase productivity across their sales and service teams, and the entire enterprise.

It might be that through ROD you’ve been introduced to the Cloud, or that you’re looking to move in that direction. Whichever scenario you’re in then attending Cloudforce would be a great event for you.

Registration is free (but space is limited). Some key elements will include:

See the latest cloud breakthroughs—featuring live demonstrations from companies that are using cloud computing, Chatter, the Sales Cloud, the Service Cloud, and Force.com to lead their industries and grow their business.

Learn how Chatter boosts CRM adoption and productivity of sales and service professionals

Hear how companies are using Chatter across the enterprise to break-down business silos and create collaborative companies

Discover how to make custom applications collaborative and social with just a few clicks

Test drive the latest cutting-edge applications from salesforce.com and our partners

Lunch is included. And you can top off your day by networking 1:1 with cloud computing experts, salesforce.com customers, and partners in our Cloud Expo.

Register by clicking here

If you would like to meet up with any of the ROD team to discuss a career in the cloud, job prospects or training, then please email rod@resourceondemand.com and we can arrange to meet with you.

It was a very unique (funny/stylish/original) way to quit and one which caught the imagination of people everywhere, until The Chive revealed it was a hoax and purely done for fun.

You can read the original email and see the photos in full on The Chive website.

This hoax was so popular in fact that 238,000 people shared it on Facebook and 31,000 tweeted it.  It did however trigger talk around water coolers and on blogs, of ways that people would quit and if employees are actually happy in their jobs.

At ROD the conversation that we had revolved around ‘If people do quit, why is it important that they stick to their guns and don’t then accept a counter offer?’  We feel strongly that accepting a counter offer from your current employer when you hand in your resignation can be one of the biggest mistakes you’ll make in your career.

So if you are thinking of handing in your notice and beginning in a new role, here’s our list of seven reasons why you should not accept a counter offer after handing in your notice.

1) If you have been offered a new title and lovely promotion / pay rise – why do you think it took a resignation to surface it? Is this promotion or pay rise based on merit?  Or is it purely because you put a gun to their head and they panicked?

2) Your Manager will have to replace you if you leave and this is very time consuming and costly for them. Would you agree that it is easier for them to offer you more money and / or a new title than it is to replace you?

3) If you were to accept the counter offer, how do you think your boss will view your loyalty?  They may well say it’s forgotten about but we guarantee that every future sick day or dentist visit will be viewed with suspicion.

4) How much respect do you think they will have for you if you stay?  They will feel that they have pulled the wool over your eyes and that they are in control of your career and not you.

5) The majority of people resign for reasons other than money, although when extra money is dangled in front of them they feel compelled to stay. In most cases the real reason for wanting to leave will re-appear in the very near future when the novelty of a little extra money has worn off.

6) Why should a company keep someone who didn’t really deserve a promotion and instead received it in reaction to a fear of departure? When the market dips, as it inevitably does, you will be at the top of the list of people asked to go.

7) Think about the other company (or companies) that have offered you other opportunities. What will they think of someone who used them to get a pay rise at their current company? Individual industries can be very incestuous and you don’t want to be thought of as someone who plays companies off against each other.

If your main motivator for looking around is more money then before you go out on interviews and start receiving offers – walk into your bosses office right now and ask him for a pay rise. If he says no then you know that any offer at resignation stage is an act of desperation, but if he says yes then you have just saved yourself alot of time and effort!

So we hope this helps, but we wouldn’t recommend quitting using photos and a white-board to hand in your notice.  A simple polite conversation and written notice will suffice.

Our client is happy to considered either permanent or contract applications for this role.

Contractor rates will be in the region of £350-400 per day.

The package for permanent applicants start from £48,000 plus benefits.

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The ideal applicant must have proven hands on experience of salesforce.com configuration, strong knowledge of reports and dashboards and ideally previous experience of designing solutions for various business scenarios.

Certified to ADM level would also be advantageous.

This role is London based, but you must be able to travel freely throughout the UK to client sites.

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You will be responsible for overseeing salesforce.com business units, along with delivering complex and technical proposals to board level/non-technical personnel and have the ability and experience of organising/running process workshops.

You will ideally have good detailed knowledge of salesforce.com within a number of different business scenarios, along with strong customer facing skills.

In addition, proven experience of multi-seat implemenations across multiple countries is essential.

You must be able to travel freely across the UK and globally, sometimes at short notice.

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