Senior Engagement Manager

Redwood Software
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level project managers with a focus on customer-facing automation initiatives, who thrive in a remote work arrangement and have experience in ERP systems and cross-functional collaboration.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years in enterprise project management and a background in workload automation
    — “5+ years experience in 'customer-facing' program/project leadership role planning and managing multiple enterprise level engagements”
  • Individuals with a track record of managing automation projects and strong communication skills with C-level executives
    — “Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills appropriate to both technical and management clients, including effective interaction with senior executive to C-level personnel”
  • Professionals who can lead multiple projects simultaneously and align with AI-forward thinking
    — “AI forward thinking looking for opportunities to optimize and drive efficiencies through AI initiatives”

Things to consider

  • The role demands managing competing priorities and customer demands with high efficiency
    — “Strong organizational skills with an ability to manage competing customer demands, multiple priorities, commitments, and projects”
  • Candidates must be prepared to meet and exceed team KPIs as part of their performance expectations
    — “Works with PS management to meet and exceed PS team KPIs”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience managing automation projects and ERP systems like SAP in your resume
    — “ERP experience, particularly SAP, awareness of SAP Rise, S4/Hana a bonus”
  • Emphasize your ability to predict and manage resources effectively for complex engagements
    — “Predict resources needed to reach the project’s objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner”
  • Showcase your skills in developing detailed project plans with clear deliverables and timelines
    — “Develops detailed project plans, risks, issues and financial tracking deliverables for each implementation”
  • Demonstrate your ability to troubleshoot high-level technical issues and guide customers to resolution
    — “Ability to troubleshoot technical issues at a high level to determine the appropriate path to resolution”
  • Demonstrate cross-team collaboration experience, especially with remote and in-person teams
    — “Experience with Professional Services Automation(PSA) software preferred”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Manage successful engagements for new and existing Redwood customers
  • Develop detailed project plans
  • Communicate project milestones and progress
  • Manage multiple projects to completion
  • Liaise with executives and project stakeholders
Typical background
5+ years experience in customer-facing program/project leadershipERP experienceProject management certification

Skills & requirements

Required

Project ManagementProgram ManagementERP ExperienceSAPSales SupportCustomer SuccessProject PlanningRisk ManagementFinancial TrackingResource ManagementCustomer CommunicationProject ReportingProcess OptimizationAI Initiatives

Preferred

SAP RiseS4/hana

Stack & domain

Project ManagementERPSAPWorkload Or Business Process AutomationAI InitiativesCurious And InquisitiveExcellent Written, Verbal, And Presentation SkillsStrong Organizational SkillsStrong Time Management SkillsStrong Analytical SkillsProject Management CertificationAutomation

About the role

Original posting from Redwood Software via Greenhouse

OUR MISSION

At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes.

ABOUT US

Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. With the first SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP, we believe in the transformative power of automation. Our unparalleled solutions empower you to orchestrate, manage and monitor your workflows across any application, service or server — in the cloud or on premises — with confidence and control. 

Redwood’s global team of automation experts and customer success engineers provide solutions and world-class support designed to give you the freedom and time to imagine and define your future. Get out of the weeds and see the forest, with Redwood Software.

CORE VALUES

One Team. One Redwood

Make Your Own Weather

Obsess over Customer Success

Work the Problem

Be Curious

Own the Outcome

Respect Each Other

YOUR IMPACT 

Engagement Managers at Redwood are responsible for managing successful engagements for new (and existing) Redwood customers as part of the Professional Services(PS) team.

Works closely with Sales to help support Sales pipeline, sell Professional Services, and develop Statements of Work(SOW) defining the project’s goals/objectives, scope, and deliverables

Develops detailed project plans, risks, issues and financial tracking deliverables for each implementation to meet the project’s goals and objectives as defined in the SOW

Communicates project milestones, estimated delivery dates, and potential delays to all levels of  customers and internal stakeholders

Responsible for day-to-day management and leading multiple projects to completion on time and within budget

Liaising with executives and project stakeholders providing project progress and reports as required

Predict resources needed to reach the project’s objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner

Responds to customer questions and guides them to a successful implementation of Redwood product(s)

Identifies project gaps and makes recommendations to improve project management and implementation processes

Works with PS management to meet and exceed PS team KPIs

AI forward thinking looking for opportunities to optimize and drive efficiencies through AI initiatives

YOUR EXPERIENCE

5+ years experience in “customer-facing” program/project leadership role planning and managing multiple enterprise level engagements of different sizes and complexities

2+ years experience leading workload or business process automation engagements 

ERP experience, particularly SAP, awareness of SAP Rise, S4/Hana a bonus

Ability to manage multiple engagements at the same time

Curious and inquisitive

Project management certification preferred

Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills appropriate to both technical and management clients, including effective interaction with senior executive to C-level personnel

Strong organizational skills with an ability to manage competing customer demands, multiple priorities, commitments, and projects.

Strong time management skills with ability to calibrate priorities daily.

Strong analytical skills regarding technical and project management issues

Ability to troubleshoot technical issues at a high level to determine the appropriate path to resolution.

Exemplary customer service attitude with business development and customer relationship management experience.

Ability to facilitate and harness cross-team collaboration working with teams in person and virtually.

Experience with Professional Services Automation(PSA) software preferred.

Experience with Smartsheet a bonus.

Experience selling Professional Services to new or prospective clients pre-implementation is an advantage

Experience selling Professional Services to new or prospective clients pre-implementation is advantageous. 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

If you like growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

THE LEGAL BIT

Redwood is an equal opportunity employer. Redwood prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), sexual orientation, pregnancy or any other consideration made unlawful by regional or local laws. We also prohibit discrimination based on a perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful and will have a zero tolerance policy applied to it.

Redwood will comply with all local data protection laws, including GDPR when it comes to the handling and processing of personal data. Should you wish for us to remove your personal data from our recruitment database, please email us directly at Privacy@Redwood.com

Source: Redwood Software careers (Greenhouse)

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