ob Description
Responsibilities
1. AI Vision, Salesforce Innovation and Value Realisation
- Develop and maintain a practical AI and Salesforce innovation roadmap aligned with Scoot’s business and people priorities.
- Identify opportunities to use generative AI, Salesforce capabilities, automation, analytics and intelligent workflows to improve productivity, service quality and employee experience.
- Assess and prioritise AI and Salesforce use cases based on business value, user impact, feasibility, data readiness, risk and implementation complexity.
- Explore relevant Salesforce capabilities, including CRM, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Flow, Data Cloud, Einstein and other applicable platform features.
- Support the responsible adoption of Salesforce AI and automation capabilities, ensuring appropriate human oversight, governance, privacy and security controls.
- Define business cases, success measures and expected benefits for AI, Salesforce and digital transformation initiatives.
- Support proof-of-concept development, pilots and test-and-learn initiatives before wider implementation.
- Track adoption, performance and benefits-realisation metrics to ensure that AI and Salesforce investments deliver sustainable value.
2. Salesforce Business Analysis and Platform Delivery
- Act as the business analysis lead for Salesforce-related initiatives, enhancements, integrations and optimisation programmes.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand and prioritise Salesforce requirements, user needs, pain points and opportunities for improvement.
- Translate business needs into Salesforce capabilities, user stories, process designs, acceptance criteria and implementation-ready requirements.
- Analyse and optimise Salesforce processes, including case management, service requests, workflows, approvals, communications, reporting and user engagement.
- Collaborate with Salesforce Administrators, Architects, Developers, Product Owners, integration teams and implementation partners to design effective solutions.
- Contribute to Salesforce solution design decisions, balancing standard platform functionality, configuration, customisation, integration and long-term maintainability.
- Ensure Salesforce solutions align with enterprise architecture, data governance, security, privacy and platform standards.
- Support Salesforce release planning, backlog management, regression testing and continuous improvement.
- Maintain clear documentation of Salesforce processes, data flows, business rules, configurations, integrations and impacts.
- Promote the adoption of Salesforce standard functionality and best practices to minimise unnecessary customisation and technical debt.
3. Business Analysis and Process Optimisation
- Partner with stakeholders to understand, document and prioritise business requirements for strategic and operational initiatives.
- Analyse current-state processes, systems, Salesforce capabilities, data flows and user journeys to identify inefficiencies, risks and improvement opportunities.
- Design future-state processes that are efficient, scalable, user-centric and aligned with Scoot’s operating model.
- Apply business process re-engineering, service design and workflow optimisation techniques to simplify ways of working.
- Identify opportunities to connect Salesforce with other enterprise platforms and operational systems.
- Convert complex business needs into clear requirements, solution options and actionable recommendations.
- Identify process dependencies, impacts, assumptions and risks across business, Salesforce and technology teams.
- Use data, stakeholder insights and operational feedback to support evidence-based decision-making.
4. Solution Design and End-to-End Delivery
- Lead the definition of functional requirements, Salesforce solution concepts, process models, data requirements and business rules.
- Collaborate with technology teams, Salesforce specialists, architects, vendors and Product Owners to design secure, scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Produce clear documentation, including business requirements, process maps, user journeys, Salesforce solution designs, functional specifications, integration requirements and decision records.
- Ensure proposed solutions are accessible and understandable to both business and technical stakeholders.
- Maintain traceability from business objectives and requirements through to Salesforce configuration, development, testing, deployment and benefits realisation.
- Coordinate business analysis activities across discovery, design, build, testing, deployment and post-implementation review.
- Identify opportunities to use APIs, automation, analytics and AI-enabled capabilities to enhance Salesforce and connected business solutions.
5. Agile Delivery and Project Coordination
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
- Work with Product Owners and stakeholders to shape and prioritise Salesforce and digital product backlogs based on business value, user impact and delivery effort.
- Develop well-structured user stories with clear acceptance criteria and testable outcomes.
- Coordinate delivery across Salesforce administrators, developers, integration teams, testers, business users and external vendors.
- Monitor delivery progress, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions and changes.
- Support project planning, budget tracking, vendor coordination and stakeholder communications.
- Coordinate Salesforce User Acceptance Testing, regression testing, business readiness, training and deployment activities.
- Support Salesforce release management and ensure changes are properly assessed, tested, documented and communicated.
- Ensure delivery complies with applicable security, privacy, architecture, data and governance requirements.
6. Stakeholder Partnership and Change Enablement
- Build trusted relationships with business leaders, Salesforce users, subject matter experts, technology teams and external partners.
- Facilitate discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, Salesforce demonstrations and decision-making sessions.
- Communicate complex Salesforce, AI and technology concepts clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of technical knowledge.
- Align stakeholders on priorities, outcomes, trade-offs and decisions.
- Assess the people, process, data, Salesforce and technology impacts of proposed changes.
- Support adoption through communications, training, user guidance and feedback mechanisms.
- Promote effective Salesforce usage, data quality, process compliance and continuous improvement.
- Act as a change champion for new digital, Salesforce and AI-enabled ways of working.
7. Salesforce Governance and Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to Salesforce governance, including intake, prioritisation, release planning, change control and platform standards.
- Support the development and maintenance of a Salesforce product roadmap aligned with business priorities.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform adoption, data quality, user experience and operational efficiency.
- Monitor platform usage, user feedback, data quality and solution performance to identify improvement opportunities.
- Promote scalable Salesforce design principles, reusable components and standardised processes.
- Support the management of Salesforce technical debt, solution risks and architectural dependencies.
- Collaborate with platform owners to maintain a sustainable and future-ready Salesforce environment.
8. Business Analysis Capability Development
- Mentor and coach Business Analysts in structured analysis, Salesforce delivery, Agile practices, process improvement and stakeholder management.
- Establish and maintain standards, playbooks, templates and tools to improve the quality and consistency of Business Analysis practices.
- Develop guidance for Salesforce requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process mapping, testing and release readiness.
- Facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions on Salesforce capabilities, emerging technologies, AI use cases and delivery techniques.
- Promote the use of data, automation and AI-assisted tools to improve analysis productivity and quality.
- Build a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, accountability and outcome-focused delivery.
9. Procurement and Vendor Management
- Support RFQ and RFP activities for Salesforce, AI, technology and transformation initiatives.
- Prepare requirements, evaluation criteria, vendor response assessments and recommendation papers.
- Participate in vendor assessments, solution evaluations and commercial discussions where required.
- Coordinate with Salesforce partners and vendors to clarify scope, milestones, deliverables, service levels and acceptance criteria.
- Monitor vendor performance and ensure deliverables meet agreed requirements.
- Verify invoices and support timely processing in accordance with procurement and financial procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
- Approximately 5–7 years of experience in business analysis, Salesforce delivery, digital transformation, process improvement, product delivery or project management.
- Demonstrated experience leading business analysis and delivery activities across the full initiative lifecycle.
- Practical experience with Salesforce implementation, enhancement, optimisation or platform transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce capabilities, configuration concepts, data structures, workflows, automation, reporting and integrations.
- Experience working with Salesforce Administrators, Architects, Developers, Product Owners, users and implementation partners.
- Experience translating business needs into Salesforce requirements, user stories, process designs and acceptance criteria.
- Strong knowledge of business process analysis, process re-engineering, workflow optimisation and service improvement.
- Hands-on experience with Agile delivery methodologies and facilitation of Agile ceremonies.
- Demonstrated experience identifying and delivering practical generative AI, automation or intelligent workflow use cases.
- Working knowledge of AI platforms, large language model capabilities, prompt design, AI adoption and responsible AI practices.
- Ability to assess AI and Salesforce use cases based on value, feasibility, data requirements, risk and implementation readiness.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation and communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring or coaching Business Analysts and improving BA practices.
- Experience supporting procurement, RFQ/RFP processes or vendor management is advantageous.
- Experience in aviation, travel, hospitality, people operations or other service-oriented environments is advantageous.