PUBLISHED DATE: 2025-08-13 18:01:42
Deal Win: Goodyear
Publicis Sapient and Salesforce Professional Services Secure 24-Month Transformation Program with Goodyear
Customer Profile
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear is one of the top four tire manufacturers in the world.
Challenges
- Goodyear required a comprehensive front-office transformation to drive sales growth and reduce costs.
- The company needed a fully optimized AI solution for all B2B sales teams to minimize non-selling activities and provide actionable insights to increase wallet share and improve product mix.
- Goodyear sought a unified customer profile to deliver a seamless experience across digital, retail, mobile, and other touchpoints, creating a connected and personalized consumer journey.
- Establishing a foundation for Goodyear Marketing was essential to enable content and promotion delivery, driving outcomes across awareness, consideration, purchase, and loyalty/lifetime value.
- Real-time order visibility and self-service capabilities, integrated with the unified profile, were also required.
Partner Value
- Publicis Sapient has been engaged with Goodyear for over a decade, maintaining consistent alignment with the Salesforce team for the past five years. This close collaboration positioned both teams for success, as they were already co-selling a transformation program focused on commerce.
- Goodyear brought in key executives from Stellantis, many of whom have longstanding relationships with the Publicis team.
- Publicis Sapient, together with Salesforce Professional Services, designed a strategy and implementation roadmap to empower Goodyear in achieving its business transformation objectives.
- Publicis Sapient’s unique digital transformation and customer engagement capabilities made them an ideal partner for this initiative.
Key Deal Information
- $15M Annual Contract Value (ACV)
- Spanning 8 Products
- Approximately $22M Services Win for Salesforce Professional Services
- Approximately $6M Services Win for Partner, with additional upside potential
Country: United States
Industry: MAE (Manufacturing, Automotive, and Energy)
Role of Partner in Customer Lifecycle Stage
This was a collaborative deal, built on over five years of joint partnership and success, with strategic C-level relationships driving the engagement.
Salesforce Core Team:
- Account Executive: Andrew Fyfe
Salesforce Partner Team:
- Publicis Groupe Partner Managers: Danielle Soltren, Nick Kast
- Partner Sales Manager: Bobbiann Froemke, Summer Ramsey
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