Salesforce Administrator (Contractor) - Remote, UK
Description
Oxford Economics, a leading global economic forecasting and consulting firm, is seeking a skilled Salesforce Administrator to join our team. As Salesforce Administrator, you will work as an integral member of the Salesforce team, focused on enabling the global implementation, ongoing development and adoption of Salesforce. This role will focus on optimising and evolving our Salesforce platform within a rapidly growing subscription and consultancy environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in improving platform usability, strengthening data governance, and ensuring Salesforce effectively supports commercial teams operating across shared client and prospect bases.
The role requires someone comfortable working in complex, multi-team environments, balancing governance with usability, and improving platform structure to support scalable growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate and optimise the system to support diverse use cases across a global team with a shared client base, ensuring visibility, accuracy and strong governance.
- Develop workflows to enhance the trial process, reducing friction for clients while maintaining key data points.
- Streamline processes and reduce clutter on core page layouts to improve the end-user experience.
- Liaise with the Product team to design and create product bundles with the associated configurations.
- Conduct proactive data quality management activities, including developing and maintaining data definitions and standards.
- Develop user-friendly error handling for system automations to support a self-service environment.
- Provide first-line support for system integrations such as ZoomInfo and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
- Create and maintain users, fields, objects, validation rules, workflow rules, Process Builder configurations, approval processes, Salesforce reports and dashboards.
- Support lead generation and routing activities, enabling efficient assignment.
- Perform diagnostic analysis to understand how users engage with the system and improve platform adoption and staff onboarding.
- Proactively monitor, troubleshoot and resolve background technical issues.
- Work closely with Sales and Marketing users to understand their diverse needs, identify automation opportunities, provide regular updates on new features, and introduce or demonstrate how these can be adopted.
Key Working Relationships
Internal:
- Deputy CIO / Head of IT Product Delivery
- Marketing / Business Development
- Salesforce Steering group
External:
- Salesforce & other vendors
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Required
- Salesforce certified, for example, Salesforce Certified Administrator ADM201, Platform App Builder, Business Concepts CPQ, Declarative Tools, Platform App Builder Certification
- Experience using formula fields to derive/infer data and understands how to use lookup fields to associate records (skilled in relational data modelling)
- Confident making design decisions, for example creating new fields/relationships vs inferring data in a report
- Dataloader/Workbench experience, data migration experience, understanding of reporting across systems (using ID’s/names to find data in multiple databases) i.e. Salesforce and SAP, duplication rules/best practices
- Intermediate knowledge of Excel for data relationship matching, transformation and accurate import.
- Data access/security/sharing – understands use of profiles, roles and organisation wide defaults
- Skilled in exploring, interpreting and explaining user-data related issues to key business stakeholders and communicate impact to business process
- Demonstrable skills on Salesforce automation/declarative development e.g. Workflows / Process Builder / Flows
- Understanding of Salesforce development principles and best practices: Single trigger/process per object, process data in bulk where possible, use of logs to diagnose errors
- Experienced with advanced troubleshooting and support (Flows, Process Builder, User Trace Logs)
- Strong experience with reports and dashboards
- Experience using Salesforce deployment best practices to test/release features
Desired
- Experience using Visualforce to develop customised interfaces to support user workflows
- Experience with the administration of Sales automation and third party prospecting tools
- Experience delivering Salesforce CPQ applications, including product rules, price rules, and dynamic options
- Knowledge of how wider organisation’s data and system landscape contributes to business processes decisions and overall technology architecture
- Knowledge of Agentforce
- Eager to pick up new tools and do the necessary research to master them.
- Enjoys working in an agile team where things move quickly and priorities shift frequently
- A natural communicator who knows how to translate between business requests and Salesforce technical requirements
- Actively participate in continuous improvement of the team’s processes by proactively sharing knowledge, demonstrating success and day-to-day mentoring of others
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Oxford Economics is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
About Oxford Economics
Oxford Economics was founded in 1981 as a commercial venture with Oxford University’s business college to provide economic forecasting and modelling to UK companies and financial institutions expanding abroad. Since then, we have become one of the world’s foremost independent global advisory firms, providing reports, forecasts and analytical tools on more than 200 countries, 250 industrial sectors, and 7,000 cities and regions. Our best-of-class global economic and industry models and analytical tools give us an unparalleled ability to forecast external market trends and assess their economic, social and business impact.
Headquartered in Oxford, England, with regional centres in London, New York, and Singapore, Oxford Economics has offices across the globe in more than 15 cities. We employ more than 400 professional economists, industry experts and business editors—one of the largest teams of macroeconomists and thought leadership specialists. Our global team is highly skilled in a full range of research techniques and thought leadership capabilities, from econometric modelling, scenario framing, and economic impact analysis to market surveys, case studies, expert panels, and web analytics.
