Salesforce Project Manager (Salesforce CPQ)

Responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Salesforce Technical Project Manager (CPQ is nice to have)

10 years of experience in IT

5 years of experience in managing projects in Salesforce CRM

Accountable for guiding, coaching, training in scrum methodologies and assisting the project team in Scrum / Agile principles and driving process improvement.

Work with the team to deliver value and coordinates within and outside of the team to facilitate the completion of the team's backlog and guiding the team to adding stories to its backlog as appropriate.

Proactively identify impediments and appropriately resolve using network of peers (Scrum of Scrums) and formal channels (including escalation if required)

Drive/manage/oversee all aspects of multiple simultaneous fast-paced assigned projects with distributed teams

Coordinate the release plan, communication plan, risks and issues management plan, (these are PMO duties)

Assist Product Owner in managing scope of team(s) and facilitating changes

Facilitates team's Agile Scrum ceremonies (Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retrospective.

Ensures (using SCRUM and AGILE) appropriate, complete and timely team achievement of all documentation, tracking and reporting metrics (including user stories, project progress, resource utilization, change requests, issues, risks, risk mitigation plans, test results etc.) and ensure delivery timelines

Responsible for creating, maintaining, updating PMO initiatives and help PMO on the overall governance.

Soft Skills

Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills

Ability to influence, motivate, and mobilize teams and business partners

Comfort with ambiguity, frequent change, and unpredictability

Excellent task management, organization, and team collaboration skills

Ability to anticipate risks and devise solutions in the moment

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Technical Skills

Domain knowledge in enterprise software development projects strong preference for Salesforce knowledge

Expert experience in managing Agile and hybrid/plan-driven programs in Agile Product

Lifecycle tools (e.g. Agilecraft, Rally, VersionOne, Jira, etc.) highly desirable.

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Project, Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint

Knowledge and expertise in the use of project management and SDLC methodologies and tools (i.e. Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, Iterative)