Manager, Implementation Services
Job Summary
- Reports to: Services Delivery Leader
- Leads: Implementation Consultants (and potentially Senior Consultants / Technical Consultants)
- Partners closely with: Sales Solutions Consulting/Pre-Sales Customer Success Support Product
- Travel: up to 10% including occasional international trips
- We Compete for Shareholders:Youll lead a high-performing consulting team that delivers business value protects delivery efficiency and enables scalable growth.
- Customer Success Inspires Our Innovation:Youll convert delivery feedback and recurring friction into improvements that accelerate time-to-value and customer experience.
- We Build Extraordinary Teams:Youll hire develop and retain strong consultants with high accountability and high care.
- Kaizen Is Our Way of Life:Youll practice continuous improvement dailystandardizing what works eliminating waste and improving delivery performance over time.
- Customer outcomes:implementations achieve defined success criteria that enable adoption and long-term value
- On-time delivery:milestones are delivered to schedule with transparent progress and managed risk
- Quality:high standards in requirements configuration data/integration readiness and go-live stability
- Customer experience:strong relationships proactive communication and effective escalation handling
- Utilization and capacity health:resource allocation optimized across scope skills and availability
- Team performance and development:strong coaching engagement retention and capability growth
- Operational excellence:continuous improvement that reduces variance rework and time-to-value
- Assign consultants to projects based on scope expertise complexity and resource availability; manage capacity planning and utilization.
- Lead delivery across multiple concurrent implementations; ensure timelines scope deliverables and dependencies are managed and visible.
- Drive adherence to implementation methodology project standards and best practices (templates checklists quality gates).
- Coach teams on execution discipline: requirements clarity sequencing documentation quality and stakeholder management.
- Proactively mitigate risk through structured risk management early warning signals and clear escalation paths.
- Step in on at-risk engagements to drive recovery plans: re-baseline resourcing adjustments scope alignment and executive-level communication.
- Act as delivery sponsor on key accounts: reinforce shared success criteria maintain executive alignment and protect customer trust.
- Strengthen customer satisfaction through proactive engagement expectation-setting and decision-ready status reporting.
- Translate customer goals into measurable implementation success criteria and ensure governance tracks progress against them.
- Ensure clean continuity from implementation to Customer Success: outcomes achieved known gaps configuration intent and next milestones clearly documented.
- Manage recruitment onboarding performance appraisals and career development for team members.
- Facilitate training and development to align consultant skills with evolving business needs (product modules industry use cases technical depth).
- Build a high-performance culture: clear expectations rapid coaching loops accountability recognition and consistent performance management.
- Recommend and implement strategies to improve team efficiency effectiveness and engagement.
- Partner with internal teams to improve hiring training customer service alignment and product knowledge readiness.
- Collaborate with Sales/Pre-Sales to improve scoping integrity SOW accuracy implementation readiness and realistic timelines.
- Collaborate with Product and solution design teams to prioritize issues impacting implementation feasibility time-to-value and quality.
- Establish closed-loop feedback with Support to reduce go-live turbulence and recurring post-go-live issues.
- Oversee partner-delivered work when relevant: standards enablement QA oversight and governance in hybrid delivery models.
- Implement best practices to improve service delivery reduce time-to-value and improve quality.
- Identify recurring delivery bottlenecks and failure modes (scope gaps data migration/integration surprises rework loops); implement countermeasures and standard work.
- Maintain and evolve implementation assets: templates accelerators reference patterns QA gates and enablement materials.
- Utilization:optimize resource allocation and team productivity
- On-time delivery:milestone attainment and schedule adherence
- Customer satisfaction:customer experience trust and outcome attainment
- Quality:rework rates go-live stability escalation volume/severity and time-to-resolution
- Time-to-value:cycle time to key milestones and readiness measures
- Proven leadership experience in consulting or professional services including people management.
- Track record delivering high-quality enterprise and midmarket SaaS implementations.
- Strong customer-facing presence and ability to build trusted relationships at multiple organizational levels.
- Proactive problem-solving and escalation management; comfortable leading through ambiguity and pressure.
- Strong collaboration in dynamic fast-paced environments with cross-functional dependencies.
- Passion for innovation process improvement and operational excellence (Kaizen mindset).
- Exceptional communication interpersonal and project management skills.
- Self-motivated with a commitment to continuous learning and developing others.
- Customer-obsessed: seeks to understand customer choices and removes friction to deliver outcomes
- Team player: improves performance while supporting others to raise overall team results
- Innovator: experiments learns fast and improves how work gets done
- Courageous: addresses hard problems directly; takes ownership in uncertain conditions
- Results-driven: sets a high bar and delivers consistently
- Adaptable: effective in complexity change and shifting priorities
- Strong interpersonal skills: communicates and negotiates effectively with customers and colleagues at all levels
- Coaches continuously: sets clear expectations gives fast specific feedback and follows through
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