Project Operations & Product Specialist
IDEAS, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Overview
IDeaS is a global powerhouse of innovation and excellence; challenge and reward. No matter where we’re working, our teams come together to create leading revenue management solutions that accelerate our clients’ growth through revenue optimization. This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Strategy, Commercial Technology & Intelligence (CTI) and provides CTI-wide delivery enablement and project management expertise, supporting how commercial technology teams plan, coordinate, and deliver work across Quote-to-Cash, Product & Pricing, and Dashboarding & Insights. The primary purpose is to improve delivery maturity across CTI by embedding practical project management standards, coaching teams on effective ways of working, and supporting the use of modern delivery tools. The role is explicitly supportive and enabling, with accountability for outcomes remaining with CTI pillar and domain leads. In addition, the role provides delivery support for Product & Pricing-related Salesforce activities, ensuring work is well-planned, coordinated, tested, and aligned with agreed delivery practices. This is a senior individual contributor role with a broader scope than functional execution roles, requiring demonstrated project management experience and the ability to operate credibly across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
CTI Wide Project Management Enablement & Delivery Support: Act as a project management enablement resource across the entire CTI organization, supporting teams including Quote to Cash (QTC), Product & Pricing, CPQ, Dashboarding & Insights, and other CTI initiatives as they evolve.
Enable CTI teams to effectively project manage their own initiatives and processes, providing structure, guidance, and practical support while allowing domain leads to retain accountability.
Provide hands-on project management coaching and support, helping teams apply fit-for-purpose practices such as clear scoping and success criteria, work plans, milestones, dependencies, risk/issue/decision management.
Support medium to large, cross-functional initiatives by helping structure delivery plans, tracking progress, risks, and dependencies, preparing coordination materials and status updates.
Promote consistent use of project management standards, templates, and delivery practices across CTI, keeping processes pragmatic and lightweight.
Support CTI teams in the effective use of modern project management tools (e.g., Wrike, JIRA) by helping set up and maintain project spaces, boards, workflows, and dashboards, improving visibility into priorities, progress, and blockers.
Act as a coordination and consistency point across CTI initiatives to reduce duplication and improve alignment, and support project close-out activities including documentation, lessons learned, and recommendations to improve future delivery.
Product & Pricing Delivery Support (Salesforce)
Provide delivery and coordination support for Product & Pricing related Salesforce work, under the direction of Product & Pricing leadership.
Support activities such as product setup and maintenance, price book configuration, discount logic and pricing rules, product lifecycle and cleanup activities.
Ensure Product & Pricing changes are planned and coordinated effectively, tested prior to release, and documented and communicated appropriately.
Partner with Finance and Commercial Technology to support accurate execution of billing related configuration and revenue recognition updates.
What You’ll Bring To Us…
Bachelor’s degree preferably in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
Five or more years of relevant experience in project management, delivery enablement, business operations, or enterprise systems support, including experience supporting cross-functional initiatives in a technology or commercial operations environment.
Demonstrated experience supporting the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex initiatives, including structuring work, tracking dependencies, managing risks, and supporting successful outcomes.
Proven ability to enable and coach teams on effective project management practices, standards, and ways of working, without direct authority over delivery teams.
Experience working effectively with multiple teams and stakeholders, including individual contributors, functional leads, technical teams, and senior business stakeholders.
Strong facilitation skills, including supporting meeting structure and agendas, helping teams surface risks, issues, and decisions, and driving clarity and follow through without formal ownership.
Strong problem solving, organizational, written and verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information.
Hands-on experience with modern project management tools such as Wrike, JIRA, or similar platforms, including task tracking, workflows, and status visibility.
Ability to work independently while also operating effectively as part of a matrixed, cross-functional team.
Familiarity with Salesforce-based commercial environments (e.g., Product, Pricing, CPQ, Quote to Cash) preferred.
We Support Who You Are…
As a global company, we strive to create an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives spark innovation and meet the challenges of an evolving world. Whether you’re launching a new career or expanding your current one, IDeaS is a company where you can balance great work with all other aspects of your life. At IDeaS, we also aspire to live our values each day by being Accountable, Curious, Passionate and Authentic. And we continue our quest to build a more inclusive environment that attracts, represents and provides a place for diverse ideas, unique perspectives, and authentic voices.
Additional Information
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more Know Your Rights.
Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered in place of the education requirement stated above.
Resumes may be considered in the order they are received.
IDeaS/SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, IDeaS/SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. IDeaS/SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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IDeaS is a global powerhouse of innovation and excellence; challenge and reward. No matter where we’re working, our teams come together to create leading revenue management solutions that accelerate our clients’ growth through revenue optimization. This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Strategy, Commercial Technology & Intelligence (CTI) and provides CTI-wide delivery enablement and project management expertise, supporting how commercial technology teams plan, coordinate, and deliver work across Quote-to-Cash, Product & Pricing, and Dashboarding & Insights. The primary purpose is to improve delivery maturity across CTI by embedding practical project management standards, coaching teams on effective ways of working, and supporting the use of modern delivery tools. The role is explicitly supportive and enabling, with accountability for outcomes remaining with CTI pillar and domain leads. In addition, the role provides delivery support for Product & Pricing-related Salesforce activities, ensuring work is well-planned, coordinated, tested, and aligned with agreed delivery practices. This is a senior individual contributor role with a broader scope than functional execution roles, requiring demonstrated project management experience and the ability to operate credibly across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
CTI Wide Project Management Enablement & Delivery Support: Act as a project management enablement resource across the entire CTI organization, supporting teams including Quote to Cash (QTC), Product & Pricing, CPQ, Dashboarding & Insights, and other CTI initiatives as they evolve.
Enable CTI teams to effectively project manage their own initiatives and processes, providing structure, guidance, and practical support while allowing domain leads to retain accountability.
Provide hands-on project management coaching and support, helping teams apply fit-for-purpose practices such as clear scoping and success criteria, work plans, milestones, dependencies, risk/issue/decision management.
Support medium to large, cross-functional initiatives by helping structure delivery plans, tracking progress, risks, and dependencies, preparing coordination materials and status updates.
Promote consistent use of project management standards, templates, and delivery practices across CTI, keeping processes pragmatic and lightweight.
Support CTI teams in the effective use of modern project management tools (e.g., Wrike, JIRA) by helping set up and maintain project spaces, boards, workflows, and dashboards, improving visibility into priorities, progress, and blockers.
Act as a coordination and consistency point across CTI initiatives to reduce duplication and improve alignment, and support project close-out activities including documentation, lessons learned, and recommendations to improve future delivery.
Product & Pricing Delivery Support (Salesforce)
Provide delivery and coordination support for Product & Pricing related Salesforce work, under the direction of Product & Pricing leadership.
Support activities such as product setup and maintenance, price book configuration, discount logic and pricing rules, product lifecycle and cleanup activities.
Ensure Product & Pricing changes are planned and coordinated effectively, tested prior to release, and documented and communicated appropriately.
Partner with Finance and Commercial Technology to support accurate execution of billing related configuration and revenue recognition updates.
What You’ll Bring To Us…
Bachelor’s degree preferably in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
Five or more years of relevant experience in project management, delivery enablement, business operations, or enterprise systems support, including experience supporting cross-functional initiatives in a technology or commercial operations environment.
Demonstrated experience supporting the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex initiatives, including structuring work, tracking dependencies, managing risks, and supporting successful outcomes.
Proven ability to enable and coach teams on effective project management practices, standards, and ways of working, without direct authority over delivery teams.
Experience working effectively with multiple teams and stakeholders, including individual contributors, functional leads, technical teams, and senior business stakeholders.
Strong facilitation skills, including supporting meeting structure and agendas, helping teams surface risks, issues, and decisions, and driving clarity and follow through without formal ownership.
Strong problem solving, organizational, written and verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information.
Hands-on experience with modern project management tools such as Wrike, JIRA, or similar platforms, including task tracking, workflows, and status visibility.
Ability to work independently while also operating effectively as part of a matrixed, cross-functional team.
Familiarity with Salesforce-based commercial environments (e.g., Product, Pricing, CPQ, Quote to Cash) preferred.
We Support Who You Are…
As a global company, we strive to create an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives spark innovation and meet the challenges of an evolving world. Whether you’re launching a new career or expanding your current one, IDeaS is a company where you can balance great work with all other aspects of your life. At IDeaS, we also aspire to live our values each day by being Accountable, Curious, Passionate and Authentic. And we continue our quest to build a more inclusive environment that attracts, represents and provides a place for diverse ideas, unique perspectives, and authentic voices.
Additional Information
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more Know Your Rights.
Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered in place of the education requirement stated above.
Resumes may be considered in the order they are received.
IDeaS/SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, IDeaS/SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. IDeaS/SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
#IDeaS
#J-18808-Ljbffr