Engagement Delivery - Senior Project Manager

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Role Description:
We are seeking an innovative and passionate Engagement Delivery Senior Manager (Senior Project Manager) for our Professional Services team who shares our vision of bringing the power of cloud computing to enterprises. Engagement Delivery Managers are responsible for overseeing our teams to drive successful customer outcomes with our implementations. They manage and run more complex, enterprise and strategic projects. Our Engagement Delivery Managers actively participate on the project, scoping, contracts review, knowledge transfer, and budget management.

Your Impact:

• Serve as the overall Leader of the project team and exhibit excellent leadership skills in forming a team, ensuring strong communication channels, giving clarity, motivation and direction to the team throughout the engagement.

• Be the primary customer interface and perform project management activities that ensures adherence to Salesforce methodology and project gates and governance.

• Build and lead project plans; supervise and review project progress and timelines; adjust schedules and plans as needed; ensure on time and on budget delivery of projects and identify and resolve issues to ensure project success.

• Drive teams through the Software engineering experience using Agile and demonstrated analytical and technical skills.

• Supervise utilization of project resources in alignment with resource allocation and budget. This includes on time entry and approvals for project timesheets.

• Able to lead one or two large projects or programs, or a couple of small to medium sized interrelated projects requiring complex cross-functional teamwork and management at the program level.

• Anticipate and remove obstacles that slow down or prevent teams from delivering on project goals.

• Facilitate requirements gathering and assist with crafting project deliverables, and Salesforce documentation as needed.

• Being an extension to the account team to extend the Salesforce footprint.

• Participate in end to end implementation planning including project management, risk & issue management, communication and business organizational change.

• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with business end users including coordination and user acceptance sign-off.

Basic qualifications:

• Proven experience in Project Management, including experience handling external client projects.

• Ability to balance the business and technical requirements to produce a project plan and collaborate to acquire the information, such as estimates, as input to the project plan.

• Ability to lead enterprise-wide engagements, facilitate meetings with client executives, mentor teams of senior team members, and proactively run project risk ability to weigh business and technical requirements to identify dependencies, produce project plans and estimates.

• Demonstrated project management skills, with direct responsibility for leading project teams of 20+ members, as well as managing budgets and schedules.

• Demonstrated ability to have difficult conversations.

• Proven track record of delivering high-quality results on time and within budget, with strong budget management skills.

• Effectively manage and maintain clear communication with remote consultants.

• Outstanding and effective interpersonal skills; along with strong communication skills both verbal and written.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, high energy, team-oriented environment.

• Project Management Methodology Certification such as PMP, SAFe or Scrum.

• Proficiency in Spanish and English language.

• Available to travel regionally and occasionally internationally depending on customer needs.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with business process expertise around an industry Vertical (i.e. Financial, Telco, Health & Life Sciences, or Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics).

• Provide senior-level consulting and counsel to client business and technology executives as a trusted advisor.

• Pre- Sales Skills, Enterprise change and management experience.

• Enterprise-scale integration solutions and cloud technology or equivalent.

• Experience implementing enterprise-scale CRM software solutions around processes such as Sales, Service, Marketing, Commerce is a plus.

Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

NOTE: By applying to the Project Manager, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring Project Manager will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!

• World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.com

• Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadership

• Volunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the community

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