The Opportunity

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

The multi-faceted role you’ve been looking for… Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage and the teams they lead. Known for being politically savvy, they build long-standing relationships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve their most important challenges. They plan, shape and deliver technology solutions that deliver results and seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions. Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they tirelessly share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement. This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration and personal achievement.

Our environment inspires and rewards growth… As a Manager, you have the unique ability to specialize in certain areas of enterprise software products that showcase and employ your areas of expertise while pursuing your “career vision”. Huron is big enough to offer the opportunity and exposure you need for your career growth—but small enough to give you individual attention for your professional development. Every Manager adds to who we are as an organization—and the more you evolve, the more we do. An exciting career experience awaits you where you’ll be challenged to discover your true potential: It’s analytically rigorous… it’s practical… it’s entrepreneurial… it’s intellectually stimulating—and most definitely—it’s career-defining. It’s the Huron way.

We see what’s possible in you and help you achieve it.

Qualifications

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation, and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise, and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital, and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

The Salesforce Project Manager will work closely project teams of up to 30 to implement Salesforce solutions in higher education and advancement. Implementations often include multiple workstreams, such as core CRM, Marketing Cloud, CRM-Analytics, and Integrations and may span multiple years. This role is critical to the success of the team and the overall project, serving as a key project team leader and client partner.

Job Description/Responsibilities:

• Manage complex projects with multiple workstreams through the project lifecycle, from initiation through deployment.

• Create comprehensive project plans using project management tools, such as Smartsheet, and manage project teams, both Huron and client teams, to the project plan.

• Standup and enforce project and work tracking practices leveraging tools such as Azure Dev Ops or JIRA that align with practice standards and drive productive teams to deliver against user stories and requirements.

• Maintain a core set of project reports, creating additional reporting as needed, that can be used by project leadership and teams to drive decision making, identify risks and ensure project success.

• Proactively identify project risks and issues, surfacing them to project leadership quickly, and drive development of risk mitigation strategies.

• Manage internal and external project resources in alignment with the project’s scope, including working with Huron resource management to identify additional resources as needed.

• Manage external clients including, at minimum, the facilitation of a weekly status meeting reporting out on project progress.

• Support calendaring of project meetings, both internally and with the client.

• Ensure effective project onboarding, documentation, and training are available as new team members join projects.

• Manage the project control processes, including task management, RAID, scope/change control and quality control.

• Maintain project budget and forecasting, providing analysis, risk identification, and timely invoicing.

• Facilitate and advise on best practices in change management, project management, testing and training, as the scope of the project dictates, which may include development of additional collateral such as templates, presentations, and trainings.

• Assist with internal initiatives, including improving current project methodology and templates.

• Ability to travel as needed to client site (not to exceed 50%).

Relevant Skills and Experience:

• 5 years of related experience, including Salesforce implementation experience, preferably in higher education or advancement.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Skilled in the use of project management tools for project planning and work management. Smartsheet, Azure Dev Ops, and JIRA experience preferred.

• Experience managing teams in a fast-paced and high-performing environment, including coaching and mentoring junior team members.

• Experience managing and building relationships with key stakeholders.

• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

• Project management certifications preferred (i.e., PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum)

The estimated base salary range for this job is $145,000 - $170,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $166,750 - $212,500. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Posting Category

Generalist

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America

At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.

Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.