Salesforce Senior Project Manager

Our purpose

Here at Datacom, It's the People! We are caring and humble and foster an environment where we can bring our best selves to work. Our people make the difference.

A value we hold strong, it's our fantastic team that’s testament to the continued success of our business.

Your career and continued learning and development are front and center of conversations in our teams. If you choose a technical career focus, or leadership and supporting people is your thing, we have a pathway that will help you achieve these goals! Not to mention an amazing team of experienced mentors to support you getting there. We have a leadership framework created for people through all stages of their career journeys.

Datacom’s reputation has been shaped by investing in our people, our culture, and ultimately, our clients. We can offer the most exciting customer opportunities, whilst ensuring stability, opportunity, and great benefits!

Through challenging times recently and last year, where we have seen the Nation locked down, we carry on, working remotely, and in more ‘normal’ times we offer the flexibility and benefits of a hybrid working model. We’ve even continued to thrive and grow through these times!

About the role

The Senior Project Manager role is responsible for coordinating all aspects of a product or service offering project for a client, from inception to installation. They must ensure that projects adhere to the Datacom delivery methodology and are monitored according to the agreed standards as defined by the Datacom PMO as well as fundamentally always being delivered to the highest quality standard, within scope, in budget and on time.

Role Responsibilities

• Typically involved with projects that are focused on the delivery of new or enhanced products to improvement of customer satisfaction through the use of technology.
• Installations may involve acceptance of capitalised equipment or enterprise software systems, or system integration or consulting projects / engagements.
• May work at client site from time to time.
• May involve interaction with sales, systems engineering, product development, and other members of cross-functional teams including third-parties.
• Project management skills, rather than technical skills, are key, but a strong technical background is often required to manage competing interests.
• Typically oversees schedules and budgets to ensure goal attainment.
• Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals.
• Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.
• Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement to build a culture of service excellence and demonstrates new ways of working.
• Put safety above all else, be aware of and apply roles and responsibilities in accordance with NZ health and safety legislation. Take responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of yourself and others including your own fitness for work.
• Promote a positive culture within the team

Experience needed:

• Solid Project Management Experience
• Demonstrated experience in managing people and teams
• Financial Management, including cost estimation and budget tracking and reporting
• Has delivered several IT (ideally software application) projects of over $250K across a variety of relevant industry sectors – both Private and Public sector Understanding of both Waterfall and Agile delivery methods.
• Experience with DevOps, Jira to manage Sprint teams
• Experience leading ERP, CRM (ideally Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics) delivery teams where project value exceeded AUD$1M and project teams numbering >10

Why Datacom?

We have over 6,200 people across our global offices, and generate an annual revenue of over $1.2 billion, this makes us one of Australasia’s largest professional IT services companies. We have extensive expertise in operating data centres, providing IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. With this comes a long list of significant clients. Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability.

To Apply

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Requirements

Datacom is committed to the health and safety of its people and the wider community. Based on our site access requirements for this role, and/or potential customer site and customer’s vaccination requirements which are constantly developing, the successful applicant will need to be able produce evidence of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or a valid exemption. Datacom will consider whether any accommodations can be made for candidates who are partially vaccinated (with remaining vaccine doses booked), or who are unable to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and hold a valid exemption.