About the Role
The Enterprise Salesforce Portfolio Manager is a leadership role responsible for orchestrating the entire portfolio of Salesforce Statements of Work delivered under the statewide Enterprise Agreement. This role provides enterprise-wide visibility, capacity planning, and delivery health across all concurrent agency projects, consolidating cost, schedule, scope, risk, and resource capacity.
Responsibilities
- Track all Salesforce projects and related SOWs issued under the master contract.
- Maintain the enterprise project portfolio dashboard as a live, consolidated view.
- Monitor schedule, scope, and cost performance, including project burn rate, and flag variances early.
- Provide consolidated status reporting to the State and the COE.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and cross-agency coordination issues across the portfolio.
- Maintain an enterprise risk and issue log spanning all Purchase Orders.
- Escalate issues affecting multiple agencies or enterprise architecture alignment.
- Recommend mitigations for delays and roadblocks that threaten timely completion.
- Forecast resource demand and perform capacity planning by labor category against the shared bench.
- Report current staffing levels, available capacity, resource-assignment status, background-check status, and anticipated capacity constraints.
- Ensure adherence to Resource Availability & Readiness requirements.
- Identify opportunities to reuse shared components and enterprise solutions, feeding the COE reusable-asset library.
- Support quarterly enterprise performance reviews and coordinate enterprise-level contractor reporting.
- Coordinate a minimum of four State training sessions per year.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of IT program and portfolio management experience.
- PMP certification or equivalent.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent enterprise Salesforce implementations.
- Experience delivering for government or regulated entities.
- Proven portfolio-level governance within a client Center of Excellence / enterprise-standards environment.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and cross-organization escalation skills.
- Public-sector (state or local government) Salesforce program experience.
- Salesforce certifications (e.g., Certified Administrator, Platform App Builder) demonstrating platform fluency.
- Program-management credentials beyond PMP — PgMP, SAFe Agilist, or ITIL.
- Hands-on experience with portfolio/PPM and dashboarding tooling (Smartsheet, Jira, MS Project, or Salesforce-native reporting).
- Experience running capacity and resource management across a shared bench / on-call delivery model.
Skills
- Salesforce
- Program Management
- Portfolio Management
- PMP
- Executive Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-organization Escalation
- Smartsheet
- Jira
- MS Project
- Salesforce-native reporting
Location
- NY
Work Type
- Remote
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Minimum 7 years of IT program and portfolio management experience
Education Level
- PMP certification or equivalent
- Salesforce certifications
- Program-management credentials beyond PMP — PgMP, SAFe Agilist, or ITIL
Benefits
- Flexible work from home options available
About the Company
- EDI provides to New York State ITS
- Salesforce Center of Excellence (COE)
