About The Role:
As a Senior Salesforce Project Manager, you will lead the successful delivery of enterprise Salesforce transformation programs for some of Australia's leading organisations. You'll oversee complex multi-stream initiatives, lead cross-functional delivery teams, manage executive stakeholder relationships, and ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to client objectives.
What You'll Be Doing:
Program & Project Leadership
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex Salesforce implementation and transformation programs.
- Establish project governance frameworks, delivery plans, reporting, and risk management processes.
- Manage multiple project workstreams, dependencies, resources, and delivery milestones.
- Ensure successful delivery outcomes across scope, schedule, budget, quality, and customer satisfaction.
- Drive continuous improvement and delivery excellence across engagements.
Executive Stakeholder Management:
- Act as the primary delivery partner for senior client stakeholders and executive sponsors.
- Lead steering committee meetings, governance forums, and executive reporting activities.
- Manage expectations across business and technology stakeholders.
- Build trusted client relationships that support long-term partnership growth.
Commercial & Financial Management:
- Own project financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue, margin, and resource management.
- Manage project risks, contractual obligations, and delivery governance requirements.
- Ensure projects operate within approved commercial and compliance frameworks.
- Drive profitability while maintaining exceptional client outcomes.
Presales & Practice Development:
- Partner with sales and solution teams during pursuit, proposal, and planning activities.
- Shape delivery models and implementation approaches for Salesforce programs.
- Contribute to capability development, mentoring, and practice growth initiatives.
- Support thought leadership, industry engagement, and continuous improvement activities.
Team Leadership:
- Lead and mentor project managers, consultants, architects, and delivery teams.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing, and customer-focused culture.
- Provide leadership during critical project escalations and complex delivery challenges.
What We're Looking For:
- 8+ years' experience in IT project management within consulting, systems integration, or professional services environments.
- Demonstrated success delivering large-scale Salesforce programs and digital transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce implementation methodologies and ecosystem delivery models.
- Proven experience managing multi-disciplinary teams across consulting, functional, technical, testing, and change streams.
- Expertise in project governance, financial management, risk management, and executive reporting.
- Experience working with Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery methodologies.
- Relevant certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent.
- Outstanding stakeholder management, communication, and leadership capabilities.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience managing project P&L responsibilities.
- Passion for mentoring teams and driving delivery excellence.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in IT project management
- Experience in consulting, systems integration, or professional services environments
- Successful delivery of large-scale Salesforce programs and digital transformation initiatives
- Strong understanding of Salesforce implementation methodologies and ecosystem delivery models
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams across consulting, functional, technical, testing, and change streams
- Expertise in project governance, financial management, risk management, and executive reporting
- Experience with Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery methodologies
- Relevant certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent
- Outstanding stakeholder management, communication, and leadership capabilities
- Strong commercial acumen and experience managing project P&L responsibilities
- Experience mentoring teams and driving delivery excellence
What We Do
At Planit, we provide businesses with the vision, precision and independence they need to improve the quality of their software and the way they deliver it. As a global leader in quality engineering and assurance solutions, our 2,000+ consultants are at the forefront of the industry. Every day, they test themselves on a variety of challenging projects across our top-tier client base. We are hungry to learn and drive our industry forward. This permeates the fabric of our culture, with core values centred around continuous growth and excellence, as we look to inspire minds and raise the bar. We embrace and encourage diversity. We strive to create an environment that’s productive, welcoming, fair, rewarding, and fun for everyone. We act with integrity and harness sustainability as a catalyst for positive change. Ready to test yourself and grow your career? Visit our Careers tab or www.planit.com/careers
