Engagement Delivery Manager - Salesforce
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At Salesforce, there is nothing more important than the success of our customers. In the Customer Success Group, our trusted experts and high-value services secure customer success by accelerating adoption, engagement, and growth for customers of all sizes. In collaboration with Sales, Technology & Products, and our Partner community, we bring the full power of Salesforce to help customers to achieve business value faster.
We are seeking innovative and passionate Project Manager who share our vision of bringing the power of cloud computing to enterprises. Project Managers are experienced professionals on our project teams responsible for coordinating the production of deliverables. They work closely with various technical and non-technical team members; leading and running more complex, enterprise and strategic technical projects. Our Project Managers are subject matter experts who actively participate on the project, scoping, contracts review, knowledge transfer, and budget management.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Build and run project plans; monitor and review project progress and timelines; adjust schedules and plans as needed; and identify and resolve issues to ensure project success.
- Ensure on time and on budget delivery of projects while also ensuring that project gates and governance are properly adhered to during the execution of the project.
- Track utilization of project resources and manage this against the resource allocation and budget. This includes on time entry and approvals for project timesheets.
- Lead daily execution of project implementations. Assist with the planning, tracking, documentation and status updates for the project.
- Able to manage one or two large projects or a couple of small to medium sized interrelated projects requiring complex cross-functional collaboration and management at the program level.
- During the course of a project, be the primary customer interface and perform project management activities that ensures alignment to Salesforce methodology and project gates and governance.
- Exercise solid project leadership skills combined with strong eye for business and in-depth analytical skills.
- Facilitate requirements gathering and assist with the creation of project deliverables, as needed.
- Facilitate and be responsible for the creation of salesforce technical design documents for complex projects, by collaborating with Technical Architects and Developers, as needed.
- Provide hands on configuration / customization of the salesforce product.
- Adopt a standardized development lifecycle methodology for all projects.
- Find opportunities to leverage all Salesforce technologies.
- Facilitate review sessions with the client and your team.
- Participate in end to end implementation planning including project management, issue management, communication and organisational change.
- As necessary, write and review QA and UAT test scripts.
- Lead UAT with end users including coordination and user acceptance signoff.
- Prepare user documentation and training documentation as necessary.
- Leverage business knowledge and expertise to drive business process improvements.
- Establish and maintain trusted advisor relationships with client project stakeholders by providing vision and future product road mapping.
- Have difficult conversations regarding budget, resources and timeline and formally capture and communicate outcomes of those meetings.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
- PMI-ACP Certification
- PMP Certification
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and/or Information Technology or equivalent experience.
- 2-5 years experience in Project Management Role.
- 2-5 years experience in running external client projects in positions of increasing responsibility in the delivery of business consulting and systems development.
- Implementing enterprise-scale software solutions. CRM and Salesforce.com implementation experience preferred or Commerce (digital, and physical store), point of sale and omni implementation experience preferred.
- Experience with defining and managing customer specific Development Operations, Managed Services projects
- Demonstrated project leadership skills, with direct responsibility for managing project teams, budget and schedule.
- Demonstrated negotiation, conflict management and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated project management skills with teams of up to 10+ people.
- Demonstrated history of delivering high quality results on schedule and within budget.
- Outstanding and effective interpersonal skills; along with good communication skills both verbal and written.
- Ability to weigh business and technical requirements to produce project plans and estimates.
- Ability to lead both small and enterprise-wide engagements, facilitate meetings, mentoring teams of junior team members and effectively handling customer concerns.
- Manage and communicate with remote developers during non-traditional business hours.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, high energy, team-oriented environment.
- Ability to multi-task and perform effectively under pressure.
- Must be able to travel
- Experience with business process expertise around Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, or Vertical (i.e. Financial, Life Sciences, or Semiconductor) or Commerce (eCommerce and physical store).
- Salesforce.com Certifications (Admin, Consultant, Developer) preferred but not necessary
- Proficient in both English and French
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