Sr Project Manager, Salesforce Practice

Accelerize 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/com