Job Description
Companies stand or fall by their technology and you'll work with clients in all industries, from finance and retail to manufacturing and energy who share this belief. What they all have in common is an understanding that future success comes from embracing the most advanced technology - and building their organisations around it.
By joining PwC's Technology Consulting team, your clients will be looking to you to help them define their journey - generating insights to illuminate innovative ideas, creating amazing experiences for customers, achieving huge cost savings or embracing new collaborative mindsets.
And you'll be doing it as part of one of the most awarded, innovative and ambitious teams in the industry. We're recognised as leaders and have alliance relationships with major technology providers - including AWS, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft and SAP - as well as for our expertise in cloud, cyber security, data and analytics, and RPA.
Salesforce
You'll be joining our Salesforce Consulting services team. At PwC, We believe Salesforce is a key platform for driving large transformations for our clients. This commitment means we're a Salesforce Global Strategic Partner and the fastest-growing Salesforce Consulting Partner, with a track record of delivering projects from start-ups to large transformation projects. We've won more than 35 Salesforce awards for our innovative work, as well as being rated by analysts as a Market Maker for Salesforce Globally.
A career within Salesforce Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients leverage Salesforce technology to enhance their customer experiences, enable sustainable change, and drive results. We focus on understanding our client's challenges and developing custom solutions powered by Salesforce to transform their sales, service and marketing capabilities by exploring data and identifying trends, managing customer life cycles, strategically building and leveraging online communities, driving employee engagement and collaboration, and connecting directly with channel partners to share goals, objectives, and activities in a secure, branded location.
Responsibilities
As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
- Be involved in the financial management of clients
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
- Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
- Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
- Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
- Train, coach, and supervise staff
- Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
- Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
The role
You will be responsible for project delivery across a range of Salesforce-related projects, from mid-sized rollouts to full scale digital transformation programmes. You will be fully responsible for delivery of one or more projects in our portfolio, managing the client and internal teams. You will work closely with the commercial team during presales and will participate in our resourcing processes. The role is multi-faceted and the proportion of your time spent on each aspect could vary from time to time. Duties to include:
Programme & Project Management
- Own the delivery of all aspects of PwC delivery on a project
- Where necessary work across projects in parallel
- Develop and maintain project / programme plans
- Manage client stakeholders
- Manage risks, issues, dependencies and actions
- Manage all workstreams for your project delivery including near/off shore when necessary
- Coach and develop the internal team on delivery processes and best practice
- Provide internal reporting of project performance
Delivery / Commercial Interface
- Ensure smooth handover from Commercial in to Delivery teams
- Facilitate review of proposals as necessary during the presales process
General
- Engage wider team in their role in contributing to delivery best practices
- Maintain certification in select partner products
The essentials:
- Proven experience in project management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Salesforce.com certification - minimum requirement of ADM 201 and/or App Builder
- Project management certification
Consulting
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here:
The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.
Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition:
Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.
