Project Manager, Client Services

The Project Manager will support Sales in pre-Sales demonstrations and is responsible for ensuring a smooth and successful customer experience.

Requirements

Duties:

• Responsible for the overall planning, implementation/management and close-out of customer move-in, expansion and migration projects
• Coordinate with other Project Managers to complete multi-market deployments
• Work with customers, Sales Engineering, Data Center Operations, and Sales to develop project scope of work documents, define project deliverables and project plans, and ensure quality delivery and customer delight
• Serve as project manager for customer interaction in Market, including the overall planning, management, vendor management and completion of customer deployments and customer projects in a timely manner as identified against project-specific readiness metrics
• Verify accuracy of customer implementations against a Master Service Agreement/Order Forms and other approved customer requests, including adherence to contractual Service Level Agreements
• Accurately and timely processing of all customer orders (Power, Cross Connection, cage/cabinet builds, and package deliveries); manage support resources to ensure accurate work orders
• Ensure excellent customer service throughout the project lifecycle by anticipating customer needs and through pro-active communication with customers and other internal departments
• Collaborate with internal business units to evaluate, identify, and resolve risk to projects
• Proactively identify areas for process improvement across all areas if the organization to ensure project excellence; collaborate with business units to implement such improvements
• First line of contact for pre/post sales implementation in geographic market
• Participate on weekly Market calls
• Promote and demonstrate the behaviors consistent with CoreSite’s culture and 8 Guiding Principles
• Proactively identify project improvement opportunities
• Respond to email and phone inquiries
• Other projects and duties are assigned

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to thrive in a hybrid work environment that consists of four days onsite per week
• Extreme attention to detail is mandatory
• Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in use in a data center environment and IT Infrastructure
• Passionate drive to deliver world-class customer service
• Strong interpersonal skills are required
• Superior project management skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines
• Innovative and influential, with the ability to drive stakeholders to meet defined timelines and deliverables
• Positive, energetic work approach and flexible in support of a high-growth, highly dynamic work environment
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary
• Strong understanding of business process analysis, with experience identifying opportunities for improvement and recommending solutions
• Excels in a team-oriented work environment
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced computer skills (primarily Excel and Microsoft Project)
• Flexibility and creativity to meet customer needs
• Ability to work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations

Education/Experience:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification is required
• At least 5 years’ experience in customer service
• Co-location or data center or telecommunications experience strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience
• Salesforce experience a plus

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the job’s essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the job’s duties, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

Benefits

• First-day medical insurance through Cigna with generous premium cost coverage
• Dental insurance through Delta Dental
• Vision insurance through VSP
• Telemedicine through MDLive for Cigna
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending account (FSA) plans
• Health saving account (HSA) plans for employees participating in the High Deductible Health Plan
• Life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance fully paid by the company
• Voluntary coverage benefits for supplemental life, critical illness, accident, and hospital insurance
• First-day eligibility for 401(k) savings plan through Fidelity, which includes an attractive matching company contribution
• Discretionary annual bonus and equity incentive plan
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with a 15 percent discount
• 16 days of paid time off (PTO)
• 11 paid company holidays and additional floating holidays
• School visitation and elder care paid time off
• Parental leave, adoption and surrogacy benefits, and family planning/fertility support
• Wellness reimbursement program & wellness incentive program
• Free parking or a company contribution toward a public transit pass
• Education reimbursement and student loan debt assistance program
• Employee assistance program, childcare resources, personal finance management support, and student loan debt assistance program
• Pet insurance
• Charitable matching program

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