Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Xcel Energy is seeking a highly experienced program management professional to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives with a focus on Salesforce delivery. This role involves managing program scope, coordinating resources, and ensuring successful execution of Salesforce-related projects while maintaining alignment with business priorities.
Responsibilities
- Define and manage program scope, objectives, milestones, delivery timelines, and cross-functional dependencies across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Develop and maintain integrated program plans, roadmaps, workstream views, and executive-level status reporting artifacts
- Coordinate Salesforce-related workstreams and ensure alignment between business priorities, IT delivery teams, vendors, and leadership expectations
- Partner with Salesforce product owners, architects, technical teams, and vendors to support successful end-to-end program execution
- Oversee Salesforce delivery lifecycle activities including requirements alignment, design coordination, testing, release readiness, deployment planning, and post-implementation stabilization
- Ensure Salesforce-related decisions, risks, dependencies, and impacts are clearly documented and communicated to all relevant stakeholders
- Own or support program forecasting, budget tracking, cost management, and variance reporting throughout the program lifecycle
- Coordinate internal and external resource needs across business, IT, vendor, and delivery teams while monitoring capacity and delivery commitments
- Facilitate leadership updates, working sessions, decision forums, steering committee meetings, and cross-team planning sessions
- Drive clarity around ownership, decisions, action items, risks, and dependencies across all program participants
- Identify, document, and drive resolution of program-level risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, escalating proactively when targets are at risk
- Ensure mitigation plans are clearly understood, owned, and tracked through resolution
- Provide clear, concise, executive-ready reporting that translates complex program details into business-friendly updates and actionable next steps
- Ensure decisions, meeting outcomes, risks, issues, and follow-ups are well documented and consistently communicated
- Drive alignment with established program management standards, governance expectations, and delivery controls
- Champion consistent delivery practices, program routines, documentation standards, and leadership visibility across all workstreams
Skills
- Minimum of 8 years of project and program management experience with demonstrated leadership of complex, cross-functional business and IT programs
- Previous Salesforce program or project experience in an enterprise environment is required
- Proven experience managing multiple workstreams, vendors, budgets, timelines, risks, issues, and executive-level communications simultaneously
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with business stakeholders, IT delivery teams, Salesforce product teams, architects, vendors, and senior leadership to drive program outcomes
- Track record of operating independently, bringing structure to complex initiatives, and delivering results across multiple teams in a matrixed organization
- Strong program management expertise leading complex, cross-functional business and IT initiatives in enterprise environments
- Salesforce platform familiarity including delivery lifecycle, release planning, vendor coordination, testing, and business readiness activities
- Executive-level communication skills with the ability to distill complex program details into clear status updates, risk summaries, and decision briefs
- Financial management proficiency including forecasting, budget tracking, variance management, and resource planning
- Vendor management, stakeholder management, risk and issue management, and dependency management capabilities
- Strong leadership and team facilitation skills with the ability to drive accountability without direct authority
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving ability with comfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure where none exists
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail across multiple simultaneous workstreams
- Conflict resolution and decision facilitation skills across diverse stakeholder groups
- PMP or PgMP certification is a plus but not required
- Agile, Scrum, or SAFe certification is a plus but not required
- Salesforce-related certifications are a plus but not required
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