Description:
As a ServiceNow Principal Engagement Manager, you will be pivotal in leading an Expert Services delivery team that provides a rapid path to success and ongoing value for customers. Principal Engagement Managers are seasoned leaders who build high-performing teams, accelerate time to value, and drive rapid and effective program decision-making.
In this role, you will use your advanced leadership skills and expertise in delivery and utilise Now Create, the ServiceNow Implementation Methodology, to drive successful customer outcomes.
You will be responsible for leading the delivery team throughout large, complex customer engagements; these responsibilities include:
- Lead the delivery team throughout the engagement and drive the overall vision and direction.
- Work with the Sales Account Team, partner, and customer to understand the customer and the engagement, including challenges, partners, issues, and value being delivered.
- Apply expertise from the Now Create methodology and prescriptive guidance to promote the delivery of the engagement, including long-term customer success.
- Be the single point of contact for the ServiceNow internal organization, customer and partner to foster collaboration, effective decision-making and customer agreement on proposed solutions.
- Establish program governance to manage requirements in line with agreed scope, time, schedule, cost and business objectives.
- Proactive development and execution of proven risk assessment, prevention, and mitigation plans, and efficient identification, tracking, and resolution of issues.
- Mentor ServiceNow or Partner team members to achieve the engagement's deliverables and promote the customer's desired results.
- Identify gaps between actuals and plan of record, proposing solutions and driving resolutions.
- Work with the Sales Account Team as the Project/Program implementation expert during sales cycles.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you have to:
- 8+ years of progressive experience as part of a professional services organization or equivalent experience
- Experience with implementing or operating the ServiceNow platform and ServiceNow certifications
- Ability to travel up to 50%
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in English language
- Project Management certification in PMI or similar
- Agile Scrum experience and Scrum Master certification are desirable
- Comfortable leading projects independently
- Good understanding of technology
- Proven success in driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn new things independently and at pace!