Salesforce Delivery Manager

About the role

Slalom is seeking a talented, self-starting Salesforce Delivery Manager to lead large, complex, enterprise multi-work stream projects with a focus on quality assurance, strong client relationships, and demonstrated thought leadership. You will define project delivery roadmaps, manage multiple work streams, and build strong partnerships with clients, ensuring early agile leadership to drive productivity and effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Lead Salesforce technical projects through the SDLC process and/or an agile, iterative process.
• Understand the client’s strategic direction and apply it to project team outcomes.
• Act as Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
• Serve as the functional and subject matter authority for the solution being developed.
• Work with the Product Owner to define requirements and ensure user stories effectively communicate needs to development teams.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define and validate the technical approach, strategy, and deliverables.
• Estimate effort at varying levels (e.g., high-level, work package level) using various techniques.
• Proactively handle issues and mitigate risk.
• Build client knowledge and credibility quickly.
• Lead, facilitate, and attend meetings; provide project status reporting to management; prepare and deliver client presentations and work products/prototypes.
• Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance, developing mitigation plans.
• Assure delivery quality and successful project completion.
• Manage scope, risks, timeline, budget, and resources.
• Serve as the main point of contact for client-side project leadership.
• Create and manage project work and delivery plans.
• Drive resolutions to decisions and risk mitigation; track project risks, issues, and clear impediments.
• Ensure scope is completed per contract and changes are flagged, estimated, and negotiated.
• Communicate project status and impacts of risks and delays.
• Ensure technical and business resources on the client side have a clear understanding of project status, risks, and issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Agile Software delivery as a Project, Product, or Program Manager, preferably leading large, complex multi-integration, multi-cloud, multi-workstream, and UX projects.
• Salesforce Certified Admin or other Salesforce certifications (highly preferred).
• Prior consulting experience (highly preferred but not required).
• Experience in all phases of product, software, and testing lifecycles.
• Demonstrated strong knowledge in software delivery: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, and Lean.
• Experience leading large, multi-work stream Salesforce projects with remote teams.
• Experience managing solution delivery of one or more Salesforce Capability Clouds: Data Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Health Cloud, Public Sector, Commerce, Loyalty, MuleSoft, etc. (highly preferred).
• Familiarity with business applications such as Confluence, Jira, MS Project, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong client relationship management and consulting skills.
• Ability to serve as a liaison between business and technical teams to drive effective, timely solutions.

Skills

• Adaptable self-starter skilled at creating structure in ambiguous environments.
• Strong investigative, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Strong leadership skills with a history of growing leadership responsibility and career growth in process improvement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with audiences of all levels.
• Ability to actively identify risks and drive action to mitigate and resolve issues.
• Aptitude for embracing challenging situations and solving complex problems.
• Strong organizational skills and the capability to interpret and handle a vast array of information.
• Background in large integration projects with multiple third-party vendors.

Benefits

• Meaningful time off and paid holidays.
• Parental leave.
• 401(k) with a match.
• Highly subsidized health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Adoption and fertility assistance.
• Short/long-term disability.
• Yearly $350 reimbursement account for well-being-related expenses.
• Discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Pay

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Targeted base pay salary ranges for this role are:

• Boston, New York City, Washington DC:
  • Senior Consultant: $141,000–$173,000
  • Principal: $174,000–$213,000
• All other locations:
  • Senior Consultant: $130,000–$159,000
  • Principal: $160,000–$195,000

Individuals may also be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend on skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors.