Salesforce Project Manager

Salesforce; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an experienced Project Manager for Lifesciences with 10+ years in IT and 4+ years delivering Salesforce projects. You will own end-to-end delivery, guide Agile teams, and manage budgets, risks, and executive stakeholders across global programs.

Strong communication, SAFe/ Scrum experience, and familiarity with AI-enabled delivery tools are essential. Travel may be required to ensure project success and client satisfaction across lifesciences initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Salesforce projects end-to-end in large enterprises.
• Ability to lead Agile delivery using Scrum/SAFe frameworks.
• Proven stakeholder and executive communication across global teams.
• Hands-on with project tools like JIRA, ADO, MS Project, Smartsheet.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled delivery tools and agentic delivery mindset.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Own complete Salesforce delivery lifecycle including scope, timelines, risks, and dependencies.
• Lead cross-functional teams to achieve high-quality outcomes on time.
• Develop integrated project plans and transparent roadmaps with risk visibility.
• Drive integration of AI architecture milestones and data dependencies.
• Manage governance, budgets, forecasts, and program metrics for ROI.
• Maintain executive reporting, governance forums, and issue escalation.

Skills

End-to-End delivery

Agile leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Budget & resourcing

AI-enabled delivery

Education

PM Certification (PMP/PMI-ACP/SAFe/PRINCE2/CSM/PSM)

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

MS Project

Smartsheet

Google Workspace

Job description

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Salesforce Project Manager - Lifesciences Experience Mandatory

As a Salesforce Project Manager (Individual contributor), you will lead & own the end-to-end delivery of global, outcomes-based Salesforce implementations using Agile methodologies and modern, AI-enabled delivery practices. You will be accountable for delivery excellence, financial performance, governance, and stakeholder alignment, operating with a strong business-owner & customer-first mindset. This role requires strategic thinking, executive presence, and hands-on delivery leadership to manage complex Salesforce programs, protect project margins, and scale delivery impact across the organisation.

What We Expect

• End-to-End Salesforce Delivery : Own the complete Salesforce delivery lifecycle, managing scope, timelines, risks, resourcing, and dependencies while ensuring high-quality outcomes.
• Agile Delivery Leadership: Lead Agile delivery using frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe, driving sprint execution, backlog prioritization, delivery predictability, and high-performing cross-functional Salesforce teams.
• Program Planning & Roadmap Management: Develop and manage integrated project plans and delivery roadmaps, ensuring transparent progress reporting, risk visibility, and dependency management across the engagement lifecycle.
• Drive Enterprise AI Architecture frameworks from a delivery standpoint, establishing clear project tracking milestones for predictive and generative AI workstreams while managing downstream environment and data dependencies
• Stakeholder & Executive Management: Drive stakeholder alignment through effective communication, executive reporting, governance forums, and proactive escalation management in complex, global environments.
• Focus on Performance Evaluation & ROI by tracking and showcasing program metrics that prove the business value, sprint velocity gains, and adoption rates of deployed Salesforce capabilities to client leadership
• Quality Governance & Delivery Excellence: Establish and enforce delivery governance, standards, and best practices, ensuring compliance, quality benchmarks, and continuous improvement across projects.
• Champion an AI-First Delivery & Engineering methodology by utilizing advanced AI tools, developer assistants, and automated tracking to optimize implementation schedules and boost team development capacity
• Resource & Budget Management: Plan and optimise project resourcing, manage budgets and forecasts, track financials, and mitigate delivery and financial risks throughout the engagement.
• AI-Driven Productivity Enhancement: Encourage the strategic adoption of authorized AI technologies to boost team efficiency and optimize overall project delivery cycles.

Requirements

• 10+ years of total experience in the IT industry, with 4+ years delivering Salesforce projects.
• Proven experience managing Salesforce implementations with experience in Lifesciences/Health cloud projects
• Strong understanding of the Salesforce delivery lifecycle, with the ability to collaborate effectively with Architects and Technical Leads
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, confidently, and assertively with senior stakeholders and executives.
• Project / Agile Management Certification (any one): PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, PRINCE2, CSM, or PSM.
• Hands-on experience with project management and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps (ADO), MS Project, Smartsheet's, Google Workspace.
• Awareness and practical exposure to AI-enabled delivery tools (e.g., Gemini, Notebook LM, Claude) and an Agentic Delivery mindset.
• Willingness to travel on a need basis.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

Accommodations

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recru