Salesforce Expert in Cologne
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Janis A.
Last position:
Performance Marketing & E-Mail Automation Expert at INeKO Institute at the University of Cologne
- Planning, optimization, and analysis of SEA and Meta campaigns
- Planning and execution of automations and mailings
- Optimization of landing pages (funnel, structure, copy, image)
- Creation of creatives, media plans, and reports
- Planning and support for the move to server-side tracking
Carolin K.
Last position:
Campaign Management CRM Loyalty at REWE Markt GmbH
Planning and delivery of cross-target group CRM and loyalty campaigns for the REWE Bonus Program across digital and offline channels. Coordination of cross-functional stakeholders and analysis of campaign performance to specifically improve customer engagement, new customer acquisition, and customer retention.
Manuel S.
Last position:
Project Manager at Univention
Industry: digital sovereignty, public sector
Responsibilities:
- Project coordination (teams: consulting, development, testing, deployment/operations)
Products and standards:
- Jira, Confluence, Asana, Miro, Mural
- Open Source, Keycloak, Open Xchange, ownCloud
Jonas H.
Last position:
Senior Performance Marketing Manager at HDI Versicherung AG
- Developed data-driven performance strategies and managed cross-functional agency teams.
- Led KPI forecasting, budgeting, and implemented scalable creative solutions.
- Linked creative insights with analytics to increase marketing efficiency.
- Developed inspiring campaigns based on brand strategy and data-driven insights.
- Performed budget planning, forecasting, and full KPI accountability.
- Led and executed an agency pitch for performance marketing.
Sebastian S.
Last position:
Freelance Consultant External Workforce Procurement at Carl Zeiss AG
- Sourcing contractors, temp labour and direct-search suppliers
- Advisor to procurement and HR on a change project
Rainer L.
Last position:
Senior IT Consultant, Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Senior DevOps Engineer at Techniker Krankenkasse
Automation of the database major / minor releases for the TKeasy project
Concept for database major / minor release automation
As-is analysis
Evaluation of Redgate Flyway functionality
Concept creation
Products: Redgate Flyway, GitHub, Quest, Erwin Data Modeller, Oracle, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence
Skills: Docker, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Redgate Flyway, Major Releases, Minor Releases
Kai W.
Last position:
Salesforce Account Engagement at Memodo GmbH
Consulting on and implementation of technical processes in CRM and email marketing, international project management
Thorsten H.
Last position:
Program Manager at Telecommunications sector
- Program Manager for a strategically highly relevant compliance project in the enterprise segment (C4)
- Management of 6 workstreams
- Establishment of the project organization, communication structures, project and budget planning, risk management
- Reporting to CIO
- Moderation of steering committee meetings
- Moderation of critical solution processes
- Responsibility for adapting the operating model of the IT organizations in Germany, the EU and India, including planning and managing the relocation of affected employees
Suparni N.
Last position:
AI-based communication & marketing automation at Commtribe Ltd.
- Expansion of the competence portfolio to include AI-driven marketing & chatbot integration
- Design and development of several intelligent chatbots (Steno, UChat, ManyChat, GHL) for MeditationSoul.org and Physio Point for automated promotion of workshops, retreats, and online courses
- Experience with social media automation tools and AI content tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gamma, HeyGen)
- Creation of automations with n8n for marketing and CRM processes (lead nurturing, event promotion, funnel flows)
- Combining creative brand communication and AI-supported automation to increase efficiency and personalization in digital marketing campaigns
Dirk H.
Last position:
Head of Individualization Initiative at Berge & Meer Touristik GmbH
- Responsibility for the Individualization Initiative to develop and implement a new travel product category
- Setting up the cross-functional organization at strategic, tactical and operational levels
- Aligning the initiative with the company's strategic goals (OKRs)
- Preparing decision papers and recommendations for management and advisory board
- Operational management of the technology work package
Michael W.
Last position:
Founder & Salesforce Consultant at MW Cloud Solutions (MWCS)
- End-to-end implementations of Marketing Cloud Next (Growth/Advanced), from discovery workshop to go-live — Data 360 (Data Cloud) setup, data streams and mapping, identity resolution rules (match & reconciliation), consent management, Sales Cloud integration.
- Campaign orchestration across the MCN flow types — segment-, event-(forms & engagement), schedule- and record-triggered flows (Salesforce & Data Cloud) plus API-based on-demand sends; segmentation and activation with Data Graphs, Calculated Insights, and Einstein personalization.
- Multilingual email template systems with dynamic, personalized content; deliverability (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) and GDPR-compliant double opt-in journeys.
- Operational support for Marketing Cloud Next orgs in ongoing consulting projects — campaign operations, data quality, performance analysis, and release readiness: campaigns deliver on schedule, credit costs stay predictable.
- At the same time, Account Engagement (Pardot) client projects — audits, implementations, lead scoring & grading; AE-MCN migration assessments; Agentforce grounding and guardrails.
Juliane W.
Last position:
Project & Change Manager Organizational Transformation at Blue Apes Consulting GmbH / FK Solution Design GmbH
Sonja G.
Last position:
Performance Marketing Consultant, Google Partner Agency, Google Ads Coach and Mentor at Self-employed
- Offering online courses and mentoring in online marketing, SEO and Google Ads, used by 600 customers (since 2020-10-01)
- Offering Google Ads agency services as a certified Google Partner (since 2020-05-01)
- Consulting Sidroga Pharma in online marketing, social media, Google Ads & Analytics, mail-order cooperation and campaign planning for the Sidroga, Emser, Emcur, Emsan and Aquilea brands (2022-07-01 – 2022-11-30)
- Consulting Shop Apotheke in retail media and project management for the development of new advertising formats for media clients and pharmaceutical manufacturers (2021-10-01 – 2022-06-30)
- Consulting Merkur Sportwetten GmbH in online marketing & media planning: media planning, forecasts, controlling, campaign management and optimization, especially for display, programmatic and TV (2021-03-01 – 2021-09-30)
- Consulting GALERIA Karstadt Kaufhof GmbH in SEO: developing an SEO content strategy for brands, products and product ranges; prioritizing new content; on-page optimization; monitoring and reporting; analyzing new opportunities and deriving recommendations for action; cross-functional consulting (2020-01-01 – 2020-12-31)
- Project management and marketing consulting on behalf of nexum AG for clients in FMCG and healthcare
- Consulting OBI Next in performance marketing: planning, managing, attributed analysis and optimizing digital campaigns for new customer acquisition and reactivation of existing customers; strategic analysis and identification of optimization potential in SEA, SEO, display, social advertising, newsletter and affiliate marketing; developing lead generation and traffic initiatives
- Consulting REWE Digital GmbH in CRM campaign management
- Developing a marketing strategy including a business plan and resource selection for DIOPTIC GmbH
- Preparing a potential analysis and developing an online marketing strategy for an electronics provider
- Consulting and project management in content migration, on-page optimization and SEO for the relaunch of toom Baumarkt
- Optimizing the B2B online presence of a sports betting provider
- Consulting on agency selection
Zacharias D.
Last position:
Founder & Managing Director at Liveloop GmbH
- Built and successfully established a qualitative online market research software platform (Software-as-a-Service) as a boutique provider and grew it into a top 5 provider in the DACH region
- Product ownership and project management for the SaaS software platform in over 20 countries, and since 2017 for the mobile iOS and Android app
- Defined and implemented the product vision and roadmap, product and interface design, product backlog management and prioritization, including customer requirements and stakeholder input
- Advised corporate clients on structured user feedback and led user experience studies (in-home use tests, diary studies, user acceptance testing)
- Collaborated on digital product development projects in a corporate environment (apps & IoT applications) and facilitated workshops with D-level stakeholders in German and English
- Responsible for acquisition and account management of corporate clients in German-speaking countries and across Europe
- Built and led the Professional Services team both functionally and disciplinarily, with a focus on data protection and GDPR compliance
Andreas J.
Last position:
Certified AI Expert Trainee at Scaly Academy
- Further training to become a certified AI expert in the company
- Fundamentals of AI
- AI tools
- Prompt engineering (creation of professional prompts)
- (Advanced) Process automation with AI and make.com
- AI in marketing and sales
- Legally compliant use of AI in companies
- Intelligent knowledge management
- AI in customer management
- Developing AI guidelines for the company
- AI integration into the company
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Statistics of experts using Salesforce
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
2.4 years (Germany: 2.2 years)
Positions per freelancer
14 (Germany: 11)
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Sales
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Retail
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
80% (Germany: 92%)
Master's degree or higher
56% (Germany: 53%)
Doctorate
4% (Germany: 8%)
Certifications per freelancer
5 (Germany: 3)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 98%)
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Salesforce experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (75%)
- Professional Services (64%)
- Retail (50%)
- Manufacturing (43%)
- Education (36%)
- Telecommunication (36%)
- Advertising (32%)
- Automotive (32%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Salesforce in business
Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management system for organising sales, service, marketing and commerce data. Companies use its applications to manage customer journeys, sales pipelines, support cases and partner relationships in one connected environment. Salesforce Customer 360 brings these interactions together across departments.
Core products and platform
The ecosystem includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud and Experience Cloud. The platform can be adapted with custom objects, flows, approval rules, reports and dashboards. Force.com and the Salesforce Platform support tailored applications without requiring every process to be built from scratch.
Common project work
- Configure sales, service and customer data processes
- Design lead, opportunity and case management workflows
- Build dashboards, reports and permission models
- Connect Salesforce with ERP, finance, support and communication systems
- Migrate, cleanse and govern CRM data
Professionals also support release planning, sandbox management, user enablement and documentation. They translate operational requirements into maintainable Salesforce solutions that teams can use consistently.
When companies need specialists
Companies often bring in freelance Salesforce expertise during a new CRM implementation, a complex migration or a redesign of existing automation. Specialists are also useful when teams need to integrate Salesforce with SAP, Microsoft systems, e-commerce tools or custom services. Cologne-based organisations may value on-site workshops, while remote collaboration works well for configuration, testing and documentation.
Skills that matter
Strong Salesforce professionals understand both the platform and the business process behind it. Relevant capabilities include data modelling, Flow automation, Apex, Lightning Web Components, integrations, identity management, security, testing and release management. Experience with APIs, middleware and data quality is important when Salesforce must operate as part of a wider technology landscape.
Choosing the right expert
Look for someone who can explain trade-offs between configuration, automation and custom code in clear terms. A strong specialist asks about data ownership, permissions, adoption and future maintenance before changing the system. Review comparable project deliverables such as process maps, migration plans, integration designs and tested automation. Clear communication in English and, where needed, German can support collaboration with Cologne teams and local stakeholders.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Salesforce? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
A strong Salesforce solution centralises customer, sales and service information. Companies use it for lead management, opportunity tracking, case handling, marketing coordination, commerce and partner portals.
Salesforce offers a broad ecosystem with extensive configuration, automation and integration options. Microsoft Dynamics 365 can suit organisations centred on Microsoft business applications, while HubSpot is often preferred for simpler sales and marketing workflows; the right choice depends on process complexity, data structure and internal skills.
A capable Salesforce specialist may also understand APIs, data migration, identity and access management, middleware, analytics and change enablement. Knowledge of Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flow and CRM process design is valuable when configuration alone is not enough.
The required level depends on scope rather than a fixed tenure. A straightforward configuration can suit a focused specialist, while multi-cloud rollouts, complex integrations and regulated data require someone who has handled comparable Salesforce architecture, testing and governance work.
Yes. Salesforce work is well suited to remote planning, configuration, testing and documentation when access, communication and decision-making are organised clearly. Cologne companies may still prefer on-site workshops for process discovery, stakeholder alignment or user training.
Ask the Salesforce professional to explain a comparable project, including requirements, data risks, automation choices and testing methods. Quality is reflected in maintainable configuration, clear documentation, sensible permissions and solutions that users can adopt without unnecessary complexity.
Salesforce can exchange data with ERP systems, data warehouses, finance tools and custom services through APIs, middleware and integration platforms. A specialist should define system ownership, synchronisation rules, error handling and data protection before selecting an integration approach.
Freelancers working with Salesforce teams in Cologne should be ready to collaborate across business, IT and operations functions. English is common in international environments, while German can help with local workshops, user communication and requirements gathered from regional stakeholders.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Salesforce in their recent projects is 108 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 862 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Salesforce in their recent projects, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 56% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Salesforce in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Salesforce in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Salesforce in their recent projects are Information Technology (75%), Professional Services (64%), and Retail (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Salesforce in their recent projects are Project Management (93%), Information Technology (79%), and Sales (79%).
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