Project Manager(Salesforce) - PMP - Boston, MA - Local to Boston - Hybrid
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Job description
This is a contract role and can be hybrid, with 2-3 days/week mandatory in the office in Boston that might vary from week to week, depending on vendor and team meetings. Minimum 3 days/week mandatory in office for first 90 days., * Collaborate with the Customer Salesforce Modernization Product Manager, Senior Project Manager, Associate Customer, external vendors & Customer business stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, success criteria and strategic alignment.
- Create and maintain project documentation such as project charter/scope, project plans, status reports
and operational checklists.
- Create project work plans (dependency diagrams) & schedules including identification of resource skills necessary to deliver full project scope.
- Load and track project work plans & schedules in PMO's enterprise reporting tool (e.g. MS Project Online)
- Manage program scope, schedule, budget and resources to successfully fulfill business and technical
requirements with high customer satisfaction - communicating this regularly to Product Manager, Senior
Project Manager and the Associate Deputy Commissioner of Technology, Analytics and Digital
Transformation
- Facilitate technical support as needed including but not limited to architectural reviews, compliance
reviews and various project artifacts
- Manage project issues and risks to prevent potential barriers to project success; Escalation point for Customer
Risk and Issue mitigation/resolution within Customer and other agencies.
- Primary point of communication between Customer, vendors and other Customer agencies to coordinate and manage meetings; collect feedback and action items from interactions with
vendors and track/manage them in PMO system.
- Understand Modernization goals, objectives, schedules and functionality; communicate them clearly to
the development team(s) at vendors and within the Commonwealth.
- Develop acceptance test plans, validate test plans with business & drive testing/acceptance process
- Responsible for ensuring all team members have access to the proper systems for interacting with other
team members, reviewing materials and testing functionality in the systems and product demos.
- Maintain Team Rosters indicating status and access to products and licensing.
- Maintain budget spreadsheets, tracking billing from vendors, informing progress and alerting Customer senior management of discrepancies.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in IT project management with capability of managing complex,
cross-functional IT projects. experience working in a project portfolio management environment involving
external delivery partners and multiple software vendors
- Strong issue & problem management skills, including root cause analysis and troubleshooting skills are required
- Masters-level knowledge of Microsoft's entire productivity suite including Office 365, Teams, SharePoint
Online and OneDrive, Project and/or Planner. Power BI a plus
- Prior project management of large public sector IT projects, with understanding of the Customer practices, policies and budgeting is a major plus
- Familiarity with organizational change management including end user training
- Experience creating and implementing plans according to project goals and objectives
- Working knowledge of project management concepts as defined by PMI
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum and ITIL concepts, Theory of Constraints a plus
- Experience in working and managing multiple projects simultaneously in a highly matrixed environment
- Ability to handle multiple, concurrent priorities with little or no direction, and meet established timeline
- Strong written and presentation skills, ability to tailor information to an audience in a way that
establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding at all levels
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact, influence,
manage and negotiate effectively at all levels including senior level management
- Demonstrated leadership with strong organizational and customer service skills with attention to detail;
process redesign experience highly desired
- Understanding of software development lifecycle and release management methodologies
Additional Qualifications:
- Knowledge of implementing Salesforce and/or driving large Salesforce deployments is a significant
advantage
- Experience managing a software or services project including end-to-end product development and
leading a team
- Proven ability in both waterfall and agile technology delivery methods
- Understanding of agile milestones and ability to facilitate all aspects of the agile and/or waterfall methods of product management
- Ability to build trusted relationships with stakeholders, senior managers, front-line leaders and employees at all levels
- Experience with contract management and vendor interaction in delivering large-scale products or web
services
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