[Hiring] Canadian Public Sector Engagement Delivery Leader @Salesforce

Role Description

Salesforce Professional Services focuses on delivering strategic engagements that define transformational opportunities and articulate clear plans for execution of change programs. We rely on our team’s expertise and specialisms to engage with executive-level customers to agree on specific business goals and actions to ignite the full value of Salesforce. Our approach considers people, process, and technology — and a successful engagement includes recommendations to the business for change to support deeper, more relevant use of the Salesforce platform.

Please Note: Applicants must be Canadian Citizens

Salesforce Professional Services is seeking innovative Engagement Delivery Leaders who share our vision of bringing the power of cloud computing to enterprises. Engagement Delivery Leads are driving successful customer outcomes with our implementations and lead and run complex, enterprise and strategic programs. This involves guiding our highly skilled and collaborative programs teams, both non-technical and technical consultants, and managing relationships, deliverables, and outcomes. Our Engagement Delivery Leads are also domain experts who actively participate in the program, managing customer relationships, delivery methodology, scoping, contracts review, knowledge transfer, and financials.

Your Impact

• Serve as the overall Leader of the program team and exhibit excellent leadership skills in forming a team, ensuring strong communication channels, giving clarity, motivation and direction to the team throughout the engagement.
• Be the primary customer interface and perform program management activities that ensures adherence to Salesforce methodology and project gates and governance.
• Build and lead project plans; supervise and review project progress and timelines; adjust schedules and plans as needed; ensure on time and on budget delivery of projects and identify and resolve issues to ensure project success.
• Supervise utilization of project resources in alignment with resource allocation and budget. This includes on time entry and approvals for project timesheets.
• Able to lead multiple projects supporting a program or account, requiring complex cross-functional teamwork and management at the program level.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and assist with crafting project deliverables, and Salesforce documentation as needed.
• Being an extension to the account team to extend the Salesforce footprint.
• Participate in end to end implementation planning including project management, risk & issue management, communication and business organisational change.
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with business end users including coordination and user acceptance sign-off.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in project and program management, focused on delivering for external clients in a consulting environment.
• 7+ years managing Salesforce engagements strongly preferred.
• 5+ years experience supporting the Public Sector vertical in Professional Services, preferred.
• Ability to balance the business and technical requirements to produce a project plan and collaborate to acquire the information, such as estimates, as input to the project plan.
• Demonstrated project management skills, with direct responsibility for running project teams, up to 75+ people, budget and schedule.
• Demonstrated ability to have difficult conversations.
• Proven history of delivering high quality results on schedule and within budget, managing a budget of at least $15Mil.
• Outstanding and effective interpersonal skills; along with strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, high energy, team-oriented environment.
• Available to travel regionally and occasionally internationally depending on customer needs.
• Experience in managing large-scale transformation engagements with US Federal clients.
• Ability to rapidly build senior-level credibility with the Customer in a true partnership relationship.
• Ability to lead large and/or enterprise-wide engagements, facilitate meetings, create action plans, mentor teams of junior team members and effectively manage client escalations.
• Ability to lead high powered client workshops and effectively tailor messaging based on the audience and subject matter.
• Salesforce.com Certifications (Admin, Service, Experience, etc.) strongly preferred.
• Salesforce Agentblazer Innovator preferred.
• Build and Empower Teams: Leading, motivating, and holding accountable project and internal/external team members in a matrixed organization. Fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Influence and Communicate: Act as the primary communicator for the program, taking project level details and aggregating up to provide clear and concise updates to multiple levels of leadership, including executive sponsors.
• Program Health Reporting: Defining and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure program success and health.
• Value Realization Reporting: Support creation of the business case/ROI aligned with the required data driven metrics for objectively measuring outcome attainment.

Requirements

• Location Preferences: Ottawa, Toronto or Vancouver.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Canadian Government Security Clearance. Candidates are not required to hold an active clearance at the time of application or interview; however, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain clearance as a condition of employment.
• Reliability Clearance: Requires providing 5 years of verifiable work and residence history, generally from within Canada.
• Secret Clearance: Requires providing 10 years of verifiable work and residence history, generally from within Canada.

Benefits

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Company Description

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination.

• Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal.
• Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law.
• This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey.
• It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between.
• At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
• For British Columbia-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 133,200 to CAD 183,200.
• For Ontario-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 133,200 to CAD 183,200 annually.
• The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.