Salesforce CPQ Project Manager

In this role, you will:

• Own the discovery-phase schedule and drive all workstreams toward a common Architecture Review Board (ARB) readiness date.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, business stakeholders, and technical SMEs.

• Track and manage open items, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and key decisions impacting delivery readiness.

• Manage stakeholder communications, status reporting, and executive-level updates for both client and Cognizant sponsors.

• Prepare, coordinate, and manage ARB submission materials, reviews, approvals, and sign-off activities while supporting refinement of ROM estimates as discovery findings evolve.

Work model:

What you need to have to be considered

• 8+ years of experience managing delivery for enterprise technology programs.

• Proven experience managing through formal architecture, technical design, or governance review processes such as ARB, TDA, or equivalent.

• Strong program and project management skills with the ability to coordinate large cross-functional teams and multiple workstreams.

• Experience managing evolving scope, identifying ambiguity, escalating risks, and driving alignment across stakeholders.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and reporting skills across both business and technical audiences.

These will help you stand out

• Experience within financial services, banking, payments, or related regulated industries.

• Experience supporting CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote), billing, or Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) transformation programs.

• Experience coordinating discovery and planning activities for large-scale transformation initiatives.

• Familiarity with platform modernization, legacy application retirement, and phased release planning.

• Ability to facilitate collaboration among business, architecture, technical, and governance stakeholders.