Salesforce Project Manager

The Opportunity

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. 

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

The multi-faceted role you’ve been looking for… Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage and the teams they lead. Known for being politically savvy, they build long-standing relationships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve their most important challenges. They plan, shape and deliver technology solutions that deliver results and seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions. Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they tirelessly share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement. This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration and personal achievement.

Our environment inspires and rewards growth… As a Manager, you have the unique ability to specialize in certain areas of enterprise software products that showcase and employ your areas of expertise while pursuing your “career vision”. Huron is big enough to offer the opportunity and exposure you need for your career growth—but small enough to give you individual attention for your professional development. Every Manager adds to who we are as an organization—and the more you evolve, the more we do. An exciting career experience awaits you where you’ll be challenged to discover your true potential: It’s analytically rigorous… it’s practical… it’s entrepreneurial… it’s intellectually stimulating—and most definitely—it’s career-defining. It’s the Huron way.

We see what’s possible in you and help you achieve it.

Qualifications

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation, and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise, and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital, and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. 

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

The Salesforce Project Manager will work closely project teams of up to 30 to implement Salesforce solutions in higher education and advancement. Implementations often include multiple workstreams, such as core CRM, Marketing Cloud, CRM-Analytics, and Integrations and may span multiple years. This role is critical to the success of the team and the overall project, serving as a key project team leader and client partner.

Job Description/Responsibilities:

• Manage complex projects with multiple workstreams through the project lifecycle, from initiation through deployment.
• Create comprehensive project plans using project management tools, such as Smartsheet, and manage project teams, both Huron and client teams, to the project plan. 
• Standup and enforce project and work tracking practices leveraging tools such as Azure Dev Ops or JIRA that align with practice standards and drive productive teams to deliver against user stories and requirements. 
• Maintain a core set of project reports, creating additional reporting as needed, that can be used by project leadership and teams to drive decision making, identify risks and ensure project success.
• Proactively identify project risks and issues, surfacing them to project leadership quickly, and drive development of risk mitigation strategies.
• Manage internal and external project resources in alignment with the project’s scope, including working with Huron resource management to identify additional resources as needed.
• Manage external clients including, at minimum, the facilitation of a weekly status meeting reporting out on project progress.
• Support calendaring of project meetings, both internally and with the client.
• Ensure effective project onboarding, documentation, and training are available as new team members join projects.
• Manage the project control processes, including task management, RAID, scope/change control and quality control.
• Maintain project budget and forecasting, providing analysis, risk identification, and timely invoicing.
• Facilitate and advise on best practices in change management, project management, testing and training, as the scope of the project dictates, which may include development of additional collateral such as templates, presentations, and trainings.
• Assist with internal initiatives, including improving current project met