Senior Manager, Project Delivery for Professional Services

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Job Description Summary:

The Senior Manager, Project Delivery is responsible for leading and developing a team of customer-facing project managers to ensure the successful execution of customer projects. This role plays a critical part in driving project delivery excellence, optimizing resources, and ensuring high-value customer outcomes. By working closely with the CSE Director, Project Management Office, this leader will set team goals, provide strategic direction, and implement best practices to enhance team efficiency and project success.

The role requires strong leadership, operational expertise, and a customer-centric mindset to ensure projects align with business objectives and deliver exceptional value. This includes guiding project managers in handling customer escalations with a problem-solving mindset, ensuring resolutions align with Rocket’s values and maintain strong customer trust. The Senior Manager will oversee project escalations, manage workloads, and develop structured training programs to continuously grow and mentor project managers. Additionally, this leader will provide guidance to the team in delivering exceptional customer experiences while embracing and modeling Rocket’s core values of Empathy, Humanity, Trust, and Love in all interactions and engagements. This includes supporting project managers in effectively managing customer escalations, ensuring that issues are addressed swiftly, transparently, and with a customer-first approach grounded in Rocket’s values.

The Senior Manager, Project Delivery is responsible for leading and developing a team of customer-facing project managers to ensure the successful execution of customer projects. This role plays a critical part in driving project delivery excellence, optimizing resources, and ensuring high-value customer outcomes. By working closely with the CSE Director, Project Management Office, this leader will set team goals, provide strategic direction, and implement best practices to enhance team efficiency and project success.

The role requires strong leadership, operational expertise, and a customer-centric mindset to ensure projects align with business objectives and deliver exceptional value. This includes guiding project managers in handling customer escalations with a problem-solving mindset, ensuring resolutions align with Rocket’s values and maintain strong customer trust. The Senior Manager will oversee project escalations, manage workloads, and develop structured training programs to continuously grow and mentor project managers. Additionally, this leader will provide guidance to the team in delivering exceptional customer experiences while embracing and modeling Rocket’s core values of Empathy, Humanity, Trust, and Love in all interactions and engagements. This includes supporting project managers in effectively managing customer escalations, ensuring that issues are addressed swiftly, transparently, and with a customer-first approach grounded in Rocket’s values.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery Excellence & Customer Experience

• Ensure project managers deliver exceptional customer outcomes by being a driving force and voice for the customer inside Rocket.
• Collaborate with Delivery Engineering Leadership to optimize time to value for Rocket customers.
• Guide the team to deliver high-quality, on-time, and on-budget projects that enhance customer satisfaction, the customer experience, and project success.
• Implement best practices that drive accelerated time-to-value, resource optimization, and efficient project scheduling.
• Hold project managers accountable for proactively managing risks, resolving issues, and maintaining strong customer communication.
• Develop and document customer experience stories that highlight clear project outcomes, enabling knowledge sharing and best practices within Customer Solutions Engineering (CSE).
• Promote continuous improvement by integrating lessons learned and customer feedback into project methodologies.

Revenue Optimization & Portfolio Management

• Collaborate with the Functional Leadership team to optimize revenue recognition across the portfolio and ensure compliance with revenue recognition principles.
• Identify and address potential revenue recognition blockers within the project portfolio.
• Lead cross-functional discussions on project escalations, finding solutions to optimize project leadership through creative problem-solving and effective decision-making.
• Develop and implement metrics and monitoring systems to track project KPIs and portfolio performance.

Operational Excellence & Process Transformation

• Design and implement scalable project delivery methodologies aligned with business goals and the direction of the Director of the CSE PMO
• Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, resource utilization, and project governance.
• Establish systems to monitor and continuously improve operational performance.

Team Leadership & Development

• Mentor and coach project managers to enhance their leadership and delivery capabilities.
• Guide project managers in handling customer escalations with a problem-solving mindset, ensuring resolutions align with Rocket’s values and maintain strong customer trust.
• Develop and implement career development plans for team members.
• Drive a culture of continuous learning, fostering knowledge sharing across teams.
• Implement coaching frameworks to support exceptional customer experiences and project outcomes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Account Executives during project delivery to keep them informed on progress, collaborate on customer challenges, and seek their support in resolving key issues.
• Collaborate with Product Development to align project execution with the product roadmap.
• Work closely with Customer Success Management, Product Engineering, and Delivery Engineering to ensure seamless customer engagements.
• Facilitate communication between technical and business stakeholders, driving alignment on project goals and priorities.

Requirements

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Project management certification preferred (e.g., PMP, PgMP).
• Additional certifications in Agile methodologies are beneficial.

Experience

• 12+ years of progressive project management experience, preferably with enterprise-scale portfolios in a professional services organization of a software company (or equivalent related experience).
• 6+ years leading senior-level customer-facing project managers in a strategic or operational leadership role.
• Proven track record of driving revenue growth and business transformation through project delivery in a software, SaaS, or enterprise software environment.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration within SaaS companies, enterprise software organizations, or consulting environments, working across teams to align project goals and ensure successful delivery.
• Committed to Rocket’s core values of empathy, humanity, trust and love

Skills & Competencies

Leadership and Collaboration

• Executive-level communication skills.
• Advanced coaching and mentoring abilities.
• Transformational leadership with a focus on operational excellence.
• Expertise in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.

Project Delivery and Strategy

• Resource optimization and portfolio management.
• Advanced project planning and risk management.
• Process improvement and change management expertise.
• Focus on accelerating time-to-value through efficient delivery.

Financial and Operational Acumen

• Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles.
• Experience in financial management, budgeting, and performance monitoring.
• Ability to analyze and address complex operational challenges.

Collaboration Network

• CSE Functional Leadership Team
• Sales and Pre-Sales teams
• Support & Product Development
• Customer Success
• Customer stakeholders

Communication Requirements

• Maintain regular communication with the Director of the CSE PMO, cross-functional teams, and Functional Leadership.
• Conduct 1:1s with direct reports.
• Provide ad-hoc updates on critical project milestones and revenue recognition status.

Information Security

Information security is everyone’s responsibility.  A fundamental principle of information security at Rocket Software is that all individuals in the organization have a responsibility for the security and protection of company information and IT Resources over which they have control, according to their role.

Diversity, Inclusion & Equity

At Rocket we are committed to an inclusive workplace environment, where every Rocketeer can thrive by bringing their full selves to work. Being a Rocketeer means you are part of our movement to continually drive inclusivity, diversity and equity in our workforce.

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The base salary range for this role is $114,021.00 - $142,526.00 /year. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

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What Rocket Software can offer you in USA:

• Unlimited Vacation Time as well as paid holidays and sick time

• Health and Wellness coverage options for Rocketeers and dependents

• Life and disability coverage

• Fidelity 401(k) and Roth Retirement Savings with matching contributions

• Monthly student debt benefit program

• Tuition Reimbursement and Certificate Reimbursement Program opportunities

• Leadership and skills training opportunities

EOE M/F/Vet/Disability.  Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.  If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call: 781-577-4321 or send an email to people@rocketsoftware.com.  We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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