Senior Salesforce Project Manager

Job summary

Lead end-to-end project planning and governance for a Salesforce engagement within a higher education setting. Manage implementation partners and coordinate stakeholders to ensure delivery of scope, timelines, and business outcomes.

Job details

🚨 Now Hiring: Senior Salesforce Project Manager – Higher Education / SIS Location: Remote – Canada | Occasional Onsite in Toronto Experience: 15+ Years Visa: Canadian Citizens Only Start: Immediate 🔹 Position Overview Seeking an experienced Senior Salesforce Project Manager to provide client-side project leadership and oversight for an ongoing Salesforce engagement. The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of IT Project/Program Management experience, with strong experience delivering higher-education technology programs, particularly Student Information Systems (SIS), student-facing ERP/CRM, admissions, enrolment, registrar, student services, or digital transformation initiatives. Experience managing a Salesforce implementation partner is strongly preferred. 🔹 Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end project planning, governance, execution, risk management, and stakeholder coordination. Manage the Salesforce implementation partner and ensure delivery against scope, timelines, quality, and business outcomes. Coordinate business, technology, institutional, and third-party vendor stakeholders. Manage project plans, RAID logs, dependencies, change requests, budgets, executive reporting, and Steering Committee updates. Oversee requirements, integrations, data migration, testing, UAT, cutover, and post-production stabilization. Ensure privacy, security, and accessibility requirements are incorporated into project delivery. Work with privacy/security stakeholders on FIPPA, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), data protection, and AODA/accessibility requirements where applicable. Establish clear governance, accountability, and communication across internal teams, Salesforce partners, and technology vendors. 🔹 Required Qualifications ✅ 12+ years of IT Project/Program Management experience ✅ Strong Higher Education / College / University project experience ✅ Strong Student Information Systems (SIS) experience – MUST HAVE ✅ Salesforce project/implementation experience ✅ Experience managing Salesforce implementation partners/vendors ✅ Experience with enterprise integrations and data migration ✅ Experience working with Admissions, Enrolment, Registrar, Student Services, and IT teams ✅ Strong executive stakeholder management and communication skills ✅ Experience managing complex technology implementations and enterprise dependencies ✅ Familiarity with Canadian/Ontario public-sector governance, privacy, and accessibility requirements 🔹 Preferred / Nice-to-Have ⭐ Previous experience with an Ontario college or university ⭐ Salesforce implementation experience within Higher Education ⭐ MuleSoft integration experience ⭐ Salesforce Agentforce / Generative AI experience ⭐ Experience with AI-enabled workflows, virtual agents, knowledge assistants, or student-service automation ⭐ PMP or equivalent certification 📍 Working Model The position is primarily remote within Canada. The consultant should be available for occasional onsite attendance in Toronto, approximately twice every three months, depending on project requirements. 📩 Interested candidates: Please share your updated resume along with your current location, Canadian citizenship status, availability to start, and rate expectation. #Hiring #Salesforce #SalesforceJobs #ProjectManager #SeniorProjectManager #SalesforcePM #HigherEducation #EducationTechnology #SIS #StudentInformationSystem #CRM #SalesforceImplementation #MuleSoft #Agentforce #GenerativeAI #TorontoJobs #CanadaJobs #RemoteJobs #CanadianJobs

What you’ll do

Lead end-to-end project planning and governance for a Salesforce engagement within a higher education setting. Manage implementation partners and coordinate stakeholders to ensure delivery of scope, timelines, and business outcomes.

Requirements

Requires 12+ years of IT Project Management experience with a mandatory background in Student Information Systems (SIS) and higher education. Must be a Canadian citizen with experience managing Salesforce implementations and public-sector privacy requirements.

Listed skills

• Risk Management · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Salesforce Project Management
• Student Information Systems (SIS)
• Higher Education Technology
• Stakeholder Management
• Vendor Management
• Enterprise Integration
• Data Migration
• Risk Management
• Governance
• UAT
• FIPPA
• AODA
• MuleSoft
• Generative AI
• Agentforce
• Project Planning

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Technology
• Education
• Software
• Consulting