Keith Schlaht Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

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As Managing Director of PwC’s Salesforce Consulting practice in the Consumer Markets industry sector, Keith held leadership responsibility for sales and delivery, with emphasis on CPG industry service offerings on the Salesforce platform, leveraging analytics and AI. He was also the overall leader of PwC’s Consumer Goods Capabilities Team, comprised of six key Sales and Operational pillars: Industry Innovation & Solutions, Thought Leadership, Go-To-Market, Capacity Management, Delivery Excellence and Partner Alliances. Keith worked strategically across PwC Consulting service lines to collaborate with industry client partners to drive net-new opportunities, align with Legal to deliver proposals and pricing, and engage with the Development team to build industry differentiated solutions that extend the Salesforce platform for unique needs of the customer. As a tier-one GSI ecosystem partner, Keith regularly worked with the Salesforce Industry and Product leaders across the consumer goods vertical to jointly pursue Go-to-Market targets and expand the Salesforce footprint to accelerate customer value.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Keith served as Vice President & Senior Partner of IBM Consulting’s Salesforce Services practice for the Distribution Sector, comprised of the Retail, Consumer Goods and Travel, Transportation & Hospitality industry verticals. Keith held leadership responsibility for the full range of end-to-end Consulting Practice and Sales Operations to scale the business, including Go-to-Market, Solutions, Sales and Delivery as well as Talent Management, focused on premier service to our Salesforce clients to ensure customer success. Keith executed a strategic model comprised of a cross-service line, one-team, approach to collaborate with industry client partners to drive net-new opportunities while also partnering with Salesforce account teams.

San Francisco, California, Us

At Salesforce, Keith had responsibility for Global Partner Strategy & Solutions for the Retail and Consumer Goods industry. In this capacity, Keith worked with the Salesforce practice leaders and stakeholders across top Global SI firms including Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, Capgemini, and IBM, as well as select technology partners and consulting firms in each global region to build industry solutions and differentiated offerings on the Salesforce Cloud Platform to drive Salesforce Go-to-Market success. This included development of Sales Operations joint annual plans, quarterly business reviews, account targeting and pipeline meetings, customer events, webinars, strategic workshops and partner summits. Keith also held lead responsibility to engage global partners with the recent product launches of Consumer Goods Cloud and Loyalty Management, working in cross-functional collaboration with Industry Product Development, Marketing, Legal, Pricing, Alliances, Enablement and Industry teams for successful product launches and customer pilot programs, where partner engagement and market results exceeded plan targets with each launch.

San Francisco, California, Us

Also, during his time with Salesforce, Keith held a key leadership role in the formal organizational startup of the Consumer Goods industry vertical operating unit as the Salesforce Consumer Goods Global Industry Leader, leveraging all enterprise portfolio Cloud products. Keith served as the Salesforce strategic point-of-contact, building a highly skilled professional team to innovate and develop agile, customer-centric industry solutions while engaging with the largest global customers to drive digital transformation of the front office of Consumer Goods. This unique position enabled Keith to work with Salesforce senior leadership and strategic partners across all product lines and corporate functions to build compelling Go-To-Market sales plays for consumer goods account teams.

Austin, Texas, Us

Keith was the Retail & Consumer Goods Global Industry Leader for the Oracle Client Advisor program. Keith served as a player/coach to lead a senior team with a mission to embed strategic, cloud-enabled portfolio solutions, technical infrastructure and implementation services into Oracle’s top 50 premier global customers in the Retail and Consumer Goods industry segments. This role centered on engaging with customers as trusted advisor, effectively positioning Oracle products and services by jointly developing and aligning a three-year strategic roadmap with C-suite executives and upper management stakeholders. As the client executive, Keith actively engaged cross-functional Oracle teams to develop the account strategy and bring the customer experience to life. Designated as a “Top Talent” performer in consecutive years, Keith was selected for the Executive Acceleration Program for career growth at Oracle.

New York, Ny, Us

Keith formerly served as Partner and Practice Leader for KPMG’s Advisory Services practice, delivering enterprise solutions across all industry sectors. During his tenure at KPMG, Keith held key roles including the Southwest Region Senior Partner for KPMG’s ERP/Supply Chain Consulting practice. He also contributed to the National Center of Excellence for KPMG’s Oracle practice along with a key leadership role on KPMG’s Area Operations Management Committee across Audit, Tax and Consulting services.

Monroe, La, Us

In a KPMG joint venture with Qwest, Keith was selected to join the executive team as founding member and Vice President of Solutions Qwest CyberSolutions, a Managed Application Service Provider of outsource and hosting services to the Fortune 1000. As a company founder, Keith played a key management role in the start-up stage with responsibilities for sales, solution strategy, operations and building the team, leveraging his network of professional relationships.

New York, Ny, Us

As the Southwest Region Practice Leader, Keith joined at the early start-up stage of KPMG's PeopleSoft practice with full P&L responsibility for building the practice through hiring the talent pool, building the operating model, developing implementation methodologies and the go-to-market strategy which led to the profitable growth of the practice to become the top ranked PeopleSoft practice across all GSIs before the acquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

As a Turner Management Company employee, Keith served as business-to-IT liaison and functional team leader to implement business applications across the global Turner Broadcasting entities.

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