Description
Distinguished Chief Customer Transformation Advisor - Retail
The Chief Customer Transformation Advisor (CCTA) – Retail is a client-facing Strategic Advisory role to Executive leaders at our most valued retail accounts. It offers a platform to influence the AI technology innovation cycle and shape the future of Retail businesses in ANZ.
As the CCTA, you’ll serve as a trusted advisor to Customer CIO/CTO/EA functions and their teams, and be technically credible to their engineering leads, translating complex business challenges into a clear value-led roadmap by leveraging the Agentforce 36O platform.
You will work closely with Account Team leaders to co-define the long range plans, shaping sales strategy and orchestrating a squad of specialists.The role offers a degree of autonomy and access to our global thought leaders and Product innovation teams to influence product direction.
This position requires a senior individual with a strong mix of Business & Technology competencies, industry expertise and sales acumen. Your success is defined by the customer’s ability to realize tangible business outcomes and sustainable growth through AI.
Key Responsibilities:
Retail Industry Visionary & Change Agent. Leverage deep industry insight to challenge assumptions with architectural clarity and frame the business case for agentic innovation within the retail value chain.
Transformation Navigator: Mentor customers through transformation leading practices and Salesforce solutions to improve time-to-value
Strategic Engagements: Use your enterprise architecture expertise to solve complex challenges, like integrating emerging AI technologies into core customer platforms and optimising for Salesforce Product strategy & roadmaps.
Account Strategy Leader: Partner with Account Leadership to define multi-year strategy and commercial phasing, guiding a cross-functional team through to value realisation with the Customer.
Technical Value Proof:Design the architectural logic and guardrails for strategic roadmaps, lead high-impact prototyping to de-risk the Agentic journey, and provide the technical education necessary for investment approval.
Mentorship: You will act as a mentor to our technical community, championing diversity and architectural excellence
Orchestrate & Align: Bring together a diverse team of internal and external experts - including Sales, Pre-Sales, Success, Services and Partner resources - to collaboratively drive strategic opportunities.
Required Qualifications:
Deep Retail Expertise: 10+ years of senior leadership, strategy, or Enterprise Architecture experience within the Retail or adjacent industry.
Transformation Leadership: You have lived experience in Customer Experience & Digital Transformation from vision through to implementation of SaaS & PaaS based Enterprise Applications (ideally Salesforce).
Executive Partnership: Demonstrated skill in navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and building trust-based relationships at the Executive level
Agentic AI & Data Fluency: A proven understanding of AI's transformative potential, including the data, security, and architectural requirements for Agentic workflows.
Technical Credibility: Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex technology concepts into compelling business value for senior executives - while maintaining the "hands-on" curiosity to guide technical solutioning and architecture.
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with solution selling or equivalent Sales Methodologies within large enterprises.
Familiarity with modern Digital Operating Models, modern Software Engineering practices and delivery methodologies.
Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and common enterprise design patterns, such as composable architectures, open digital architectures, modern data architectures and agentic architectures.
Demonstrated experience in implementing or advising on AI initiatives within large enterprises, including a strong understanding of the data, security, and compliance requirements for AI within the Australian and New Zealand geography and regulated industries.
Benefits
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We provide other world-leading benefits to all our employees, including;
Health, Life, Trauma and Income Insurance
Monthly Wellness Allowance
Flexible Time off & leave policies
Parental benefits
Perks and discounts
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