Senior Manager, Expert Services

Role Description

What you get to do in this role:

• Delivery Oversight:
  • Provide day-to-day guidance to Customer Outcomes engagement management staff to ensure timely, high quality delivery of implementation projects.
  • Be the focal point for delivery questions or concerns from internal stakeholders or customers, including customer governance calls, internal project reviews, and escalations.
  • Ensure adherence to the Global Services Delivery Framework and operational excellence through high degree of rigor and attention to detail on project execution, including planning and revenue forecasting.
  • Clearly communicate to management issues that may affect scope, budget, or timeliness of delivery of a world class customer experience.
  • Strong collaboration with Services Sales, Customer Success, Expert Services, Resource Management, and other Global Delivery teams to achieve outstanding customer delivery.
  • Strong collaboration and relationship building with account teams and Partners to achieve outstanding customer delivery.
  • High ability to resolve delivery challenges quickly and effectively to minimize impact on budget and timelines while maintaining high customer satisfaction levels.
  • Management of Revenue, Cost, and Margin for regional delivery implementations.
• People Management:
  • Serve as a mentor to team members.
  • Provide direction and leadership for new hires, ensuring adherence to the enablement plan and new hire ramp times.
  • Determine training and development requirements for team and produce team and individual training plans, adapting as necessary to meet the changing needs of the organization.
  • Conduct performance reviews of team using KPI results and other factors.
  • Work with the Geography’s Customer Outcomes Delivery Leader to continuously improve the skills and quality of the individuals in the organization.
  • Work closely with Resource Managers and Global Delivery technology practices to support the staffing of projects with the right resources, with the right skills, at the right time.
  • Provide a feedback loop into Global Delivery for resource, process, and technical continuous improvement.
  • Manage team members to achieve utilization targets on a quarterly basis.

Qualifications

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in a professional services organization with prior background in one (or more) of the following roles (required):
  • PMO Leader, Program/Project Management
  • Product Management
  • Services or Solution Sales
  • Implementation
  • Process Engineering
• 10+ years of consulting experience for complex, global organizations.
• Experience in leading and mentoring a team of twenty or more employees.
• Experience designing and developing service capabilities and developing and running service portfolios.
• Proven ability to influence and consult successfully on the subject of IT Operations and/or Digital Transformations.
• Experience working with service channel organizations and their partners.
• Strong experience and capability to speak to customer leaders (including CXO roles) to extract outcome expectations and influence their thinking and directions.
• Highly motivated, driven, and passionate about the intersection of technology and business challenges.
• Dedication and commitment to customer success.
• A determination to make things better each day.
• Strong people development, including coaching and mentoring for management, business, and technical roles.
• Ability to learn, understand, and maintain knowledge of complex technical solutions and present these concepts in a comprehensive and concise manner.
• Ability to interface and develop relationships with other ServiceNow departments, particularly Product Management, Product Development, Product Marketing, Training, Sales, Presales, and Enablement teams.
• Excellent oral, listening, and written communication skills, including presentation, facilitation, and public speaking skills.
• Ability to interact with and influence a wide range of employees, including senior management and entry-level personnel across various ServiceNow departments.
• Initiative - Proactive, self-motivated, and self-directed.
• Ability to drive deliverables and results, involving people who do not directly report to you.
• Travel required up to 50%.

Company Description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.