Senior Project Manager - Salesforce

Penrod•Houston, TX

22h•$130,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Our Project Manager will be a motivated and highly organized individual with strong communication skills that will serve as a liaison between Penrod’s clients and the Salesforce development team. You will establish a comprehensive understanding of client expectations and business processes and then architect and manage a plan to meet those goals. This position may involve travel; willingness to do so is a must. Our projects include working with advanced business processes and business intelligence systems, providing solutions to ensure user adoption, and development of custom applications that enrich the user experience. We are committed to people and strive to put people first in every aspect of our business and company culture. Penrod is a culture-driven consulting agency specializing in Salesforce. As a Platinum Salesforce partner, we help businesses develop and implement cloud solutions that create customer success.

Requirements

Bachelors degree and 3-5 years experience with project management, IT project management preferred
Salesforce Experience (end user or managed Salesforce Implementations)
Demonstrated ability to gather user requirements and convert them into a winning project vision
Ability to forecast project resourcing and project timeline based on tasks & team member allocation
Skilled with client demos and leading client meetings
Excellent problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to evolve project strategy based on research, data and industry trends
Focus on building relationships with contacts and identifying solutions to their challenges
Open to accepting criticism and receptive to the ideas of others
Strong written and oral communication skills
Demonstrates high level of initiative / confidence and shows resilience when faced with difficult clients and projects
Willingness / ability to travel up to 25%
A wide degree of flexibility and latitude is expected
Extremely detail oriented and persistent
Ability to handle stress and last-minute, urgent requests while managing your time and priorities appropriately

Nice To Haves

Experience with Agile / Scrum is desirable
Preferred Location in Houston, TX: Candidates based in or willing to relocate to the Houston area are strongly preferred due to proximity to key clients.
Ability to travel up to 20% domestically to client sites as required.
Exceptional communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

Direct and manage project development from beginning to end of multiple projects across multiple clients
Monitoring progress and motivating the development team and business team
Effectively communicate, set, and continually manage project expectations with team members and client stakeholders
Completion of project updates
Management of timeline, cost and quality
Management of releases and cutover plans
Salesforce Sales or Service Cloud certification will be required within the first 60 days of employment. (Penrod covers the cost of certification.)