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**Professional Services Project Coordinator**
**Role**:
Splunk Professional Services (PS) is a growing and dynamic organization which plays a key role in the success of our customers, our employees and our company. Our PS Project Coordinators lead customers, partners and Splunk teams through the implementation of projects using a combination of management and technical skills. They are highly organized, strong communicators and have a real passion for driving successful customer outcomes. If you possess the ability to manage a portfolio of light to medium complexity projects and have associate level experience in project management standard processes, consulting, and leading technology implementation projects, then this role may be exactly the challenge you are seeking. Our goal is not only to make our customers successful, but to take your project management abilities to the next level.
**Responsibilities**:
- Responsible for project kickoff and closure activities
- Coordinate with customers for schedule availability and submit resource requests for technical delivery
- Understand customer technical scope and any onboarding requirements (i.e. background checks, fingerprints, badging, network access, etc.)
- Partner with other PS stakeholders to ensure scope is delivered timely and within budget
- Build and maintain technical project plans outlining tasks, milestone dates and allocation of resources aligned to statements of work (SOWs)
- Provide timely and accurate status updates to all customer, partner and Splunk stakeholders upon request
- Own and manage technical project escalations through to resolution, and ensure expectations are clearly set with customer and Splunk teams
- Maintain and foster Splunk, partner, and customer relationships
- Identify and promote opportunities for Splunk products and services to meet additional customer requirements
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Splunk products, industry standard methodologies, and project management skills through continuous learning
- Manage various operational reports to support data hygiene within FinancialForce
- Manage Estimated vs. Actual time delivery through timecard review and reconciliation
**Desired Skills and Experience**:
- 2+ years project management or service delivery management experience in a customer facing role
- Experience leading delivery of customer projects with cross-functional teams using waterfall and agile project delivery methodologies
- Demonstrate the confidence and interpersonal skills needed to conduct effective executive presentations
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-growing environment while working independently and remotely from other members of your team
- BA/BS preferred in business management, computer science, computer engineering or equivalent work experience
- Experience working for a software vendor preferred
- Professional Services tools familiarity: Professional Services Automation, CRM, Project Management tools, such as FinancialForce, Salesforce, Jira, Smartsheets
**Shift Schedule(s)**:
- 6:00am CST - 3:00pm CST (AMER East)
- 10:00am CST - 7:00pm CST (AMER West)
- 7:00am CET - 4:00pm CET (EMEA)
- 9:00am CET - 6:00pm CET (EMEA)
**Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer**
At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.