Salesforce Project Manager - Lifesciences

As a Salesforce Project Manager (Individual contributor), you will lead & own the end-to-end delivery of global, outcomes-based Salesforce implementations using Agile methodologies and modern, AI-enabled delivery practices. You will be accountable for delivery excellence, financial performance, governance, and stakeholder alignment, operating with a strong business-owner & customer-first mindset. This role requires strategic thinking, executive presence, and hands-on delivery leadership to manage complex Salesforce programs, protect project margins, and scale delivery impact across the organisation.
What We Expect

• End-to-End Salesforce Delivery : Own the complete Salesforce delivery lifecycle, managing scope, timelines, risks, resourcing, and dependencies while ensuring high-quality outcomes.
• Agile Delivery Leadership: Lead Agile delivery using frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe, driving sprint execution, backlog prioritization, delivery predictability, and high-performing cross-functional Salesforce teams.
• Program Planning & Roadmap Management: Develop and manage integrated project plans and delivery roadmaps, ensuring transparent progress reporting, risk visibility, and dependency management across the engagement lifecycle.
• Drive Enterprise AI Architecture frameworks from a delivery standpoint, establishing clear project tracking milestones for predictive and generative AI workstreams while managing downstream environment and data dependencies
• Stakeholder & Executive Management: Drive stakeholder alignment through effective communication, executive reporting, governance forums, and proactive escalation management in complex, global environments.
• Focus on Performance Evaluation & ROI by tracking and showcasing program metrics that prove the business value, sprint velocity gains, and adoption rates of deployed Salesforce capabilities to client leadership
• Quality Governance & Delivery Excellence: Establish and enforce delivery governance, standards, and best practices, ensuring compliance, quality benchmarks, and continuous improvement across projects.
• Champion an AI-First Delivery & Engineering methodology by utilizing advanced AI tools, developer assistants, and automated tracking to optimize implementation schedules and boost team development capacity
• Resource & Budget Management: Plan and optimise project resourcing, manage budgets and forecasts, track financials, and mitigate delivery and financial risks throughout the engagement.
• AI-Driven Productivity Enhancement: Encourage the strategic adoption of authorized AI technologies to boost team efficiency and optimize overall project delivery cycles.

• Requirements:

• 10+ years of total experience in the IT industry, with 4+ years delivering Salesforce projects.
• Proven experience managing Salesforce implementations with experience in Lifesciences/Health cloud projects
• Strong understanding of the Salesforce delivery lifecycle, with the ability to collaborate effectively with Architects and Technical Leads
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, confidently, and assertively with senior stakeholders and executives.
• Project / Agile Management Certification (any one): PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, PRINCE2, CSM, or PSM.
• Hands-on experience with project management and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps (ADO), MS Project, Smartsheet's, Google Workspace.
• Awareness and practical exposure to AI-enabled delivery tools (e.g., Gemini, Notebook LM, Claude) and an Agentic Delivery mindset.
• Willingness to travel on a need basis.