Senior Salesforce Project Manager

Job Duties

• Collaborate with customer contacts and multi vendor environment managing cross-functional customer project team members to facilitate project delivery
• Collaborate with onshore, near shore and offshore Apps Associates project team members to successfully deliver project commitments in tandem with vendor milestones and dependencies
• Plan and manage the execution of the project's activities and resources in partnership with technical leads, vendors and business partners
• Delegate project tasks to employees best positioned to complete them
• Lead project teams through scoping definition and ensure all execution efforts align to project goals
• Lead the establishment of measurable and achievable critical success factors for the project
• Control planning and execution to ensure that cost, time, and quality goals are met
• Successfully manage the handoff from Sales to Project delivery, initiating project kickoff and planning activities
• Create and maintain project plans and related project artifacts
• Create long and short-term plans, including setting milestone targets and adhering to deadlines
• Manage scope throughout the engagement, identify potential deviations from scope and clearly communicate decisions
• Manage against the approved budget and recommend course correction as necessary
• Conduct periodic stakeholder meetings to ensure status clarity and clear expectations
• Communicate with executives, project sponsors to keep the project aligned with their goals
• Plan for and identify potential risks performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and risk mitigation strategies
• Adhere to the Apps Associates project management methodology
• Support the Sales pipeline through the review of Sales artifacts to provide feedback on scope and resources for new business opportunities
• Possesses the ability to turn troubled projects around when and if needed

Work Requirements

• The Project Manager must have senior project management level experience and/or hands on experience with at least two (2) of the following technologies/project tracks: Salesforce implementation experience, Agile/Scrum methodologies, Multi-vendor program implementation
• Eight to Ten years work experience, six years consulting in the project management capacity

General Requirements

• In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:
• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision
• Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations