Description

Job description

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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 a couple of small to medium-sized interrelated projects requiring complex cross-functional teamwork and management at the program level.
• 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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• + 08 years 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.
• Demonstrated project management skills, with direct responsibility for running project teams, up to 10+ people, budget and schedule.
• Demonstrated ability to have difficult conversations.
• Proven history of delivering high quality results on schedule and within budget, managing a budget of at least 500K.
• 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.
• Available to travel regionally and occasionally internationally depending on company needs.
• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).
• Project Management Methodology Certification such as Prince, PMP, SAFe, Scrum.
• English speaker (Spanish is a plus)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Extensive experience with cloud solutions - Salesforce is preferred!
• Managing software implementation projects
• Strong ownership and leadership for the project
• Manage and communicate with remote developers.
• Experience with business process expertise around an industry Vertical (i.e. Financial, Health & Life Sciences, or Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics).