United States onlyAccelerize 360 is a premier Salesforce.com partner with a 4.8/5.0 Customer Satisfaction rating providing implementation services to Salesforce.com customers.
The A360 Sr Project Manager is core to delivering successful Salesforce projects & results to our external clients & will manage our internal project team members to drive Accelerize 360’s client projects forward to a successful Go Live. Our Sr Project Managers will also play a crucial role in supporting defining, implementing and enforcing Project Management standards & PMO within our professional services organization.
The person qualified for this role must be effective in juggling multiple fast-paced engagements, and at the same time establish a trusted partner relationship with A360's customers. You will deliver projects using A360's methodologies and governance practices defined by the PMO and demonstrate exemplary verbal & written communications skills with external clients at all levels including executives and CxO's.
You will work closely with our clients to translate project objectives into achievable timelines while utilizing a hybrid Agile Scrum methodology and ensure the client achieves value from their Salesforce investment; understand their businesses, overall goals, objectives, pain points, areas of opportunity, the definition of success, etc. and seek a clear understanding of how success will be measured in the engagement.
Typical day-to-day project activities include driving project schedules, anticipating risk and variance, cost containment and disruption handling, managing all project/people forecasts and project status communications.
About you:
- You have been described as incredibly curious, you love to deep dive and understand problems from every angle
- You are a big believer in asking why? Why are we doing this? Why is this question being asked? You don’t take things at face value and constantly search for improvement
- Communication is your strong suit, be it through email or in a meeting with internal team members or customer executives. You are clear and concise!
Primary Responsibilities
- Drive projects on a hybrid agile methodology with focus on agile based release planning, user story grooming, user story estimations, sprint stand-ups & retrospectives, and release deployment
- Facilitate project management functions including but not limited to scheduling, resource management, budgets, project margin, compliance, project hours approval & timeline
- Exercise project control to efficiently manage task completion, contain scope and execute change requests as necessary, and identify and mitigate risks to the project
- Guide the organization in PM best practices and mentor junior level PM’s
Deliver project tasks throughout the project lifecycle such as:
- Create project plans and schedule, manage and update throughout the project
- Manage & monitor ongoing work on user stories in a variety of applications including JIRA
- Create & manage a Workforce Breakdown Structure (WBS) & resource planning /schedules
- Monitor weekly/hourly project burn, track all utilization, update and manage accurate utilization, and manage capacity to keep team efficiently staffed
- Create & send status update reports
- Serve as the primary project and escalation contact as it pertains to budget, timeline and scope management
- Participate and lead recurring project management and Scrum meetings as needed
- Submit and review project weekly check ins
- Manage project risk (track RAID log) and communicate anticipated risks to project stakeholders
Additional Project Duties:
- Meeting prep (agenda, logistics, resource assignment)
- Communicate action items and and next steps, post meeting
- Partner with project leadership to Establish sprint schedules
- Create sprint summary reports
- Establish deployment plan (schedule, sequence)
- Provide end to end Project Oversight
- Review/complete project set up and go live checklists
- Reviews and approves invoices, auditing for any rate mistakes, hours mistakes, misuse of terms, or any similar errors
- Create & update project and resource forecasts
- Review SOWs and Change Orders, collaborating with a Portfolio Director and Sales as appropriate
- Manage and delegate work to the project team to ensure team meets all timelines
- Manage conflicts with both internal and external teams and seek satisfactory resolutions
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of implementing software technology solutions as a Project Manager
- 3+ Years working in the Salesforce ecosystem, preferably in the Salesforce partner ecosystem
- 2+ years of Agile (or Agile/Waterfall Hybrid) experience as a project or program leader
- 4+ years of experience working for a professional services or consulting firm delivering projects to external customers
- Demonstrated project leadership skills, with direct responsibility for managing project teams, budget and schedule
- Strong customer-facing communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to support complex engagements
- Proven history of delivering high quality results on schedule and within budget
- Successfully manage and communicate with a remote distributed team
- Willing to adapt to hours of work in non-traditional business hours pending project needs
- Willingness to work US Eastern time zone hours
- Full time resident in US
*Strong preference for experience in the Salesforce ecosystem, preferably with a a Salesforce partner firm or other hands on experience with Salesforce.com
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