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We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

At Proofpoint, people are at the heart of our award-winning line up of cybersecurity solutions. And the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re customer-focused, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Through a culture of diversity, honesty and initiative, we deliver meaningful innovation that helps manage today’s biggest threats. With opportunities in all
functions, we offer many exciting reasons to join our team.

The role:

This is a great opportunity for a Senior / Staff Project Manager to join Proofpoint and help with our Quote to Cash initiatives.  You will have the opportunity to enhance procedures and make new ones to improve over-all processes. You will regularly communicate with cross-functional team members to understand business needs and triage requirements to meet milestones. The Project Manager will have the ability to "think big", be creative and have fun while ensuring change is adopted over the long term.

Your day-to-day:

• Drive alignment and coordination of Q2O (Quote to Order) initiatives
• The PMO will help to optimize the Q2O project prioritization process to ensure team bandwidth is focused on the key business deliverables
• Work with functional leaders to ensure the appropriate Core Team resources are committed to the projects and contribute to required performance levels
• Leads program planning process ensuring requirements are clear and driven by customer need and experience
• Leads cross-functional teams through problem resolution including root cause analysis and corrective action
• Defines, delegates, and evaluates the roles, responsibilities, goals and deliverables for assigned projects
• Communicates program updates to functional management and leadership
• Drive the Change Management effort, including the change impact analysis and communications
• Think big! Be creative. Find unconventional ways to ensure change is adopted over the long term.

What you bring to the team:

• 10+ years of project management experience with a proven ability to lead and deliver on strategic and tactical business objectives
• Experience working in a SaaS company preferred
• Working experience in the Quote to Order process area
• Knowledge of CPQ, and SFDC experience
• Self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Demonstrates excellence in both oral and written communication, in cross functional, and cross-cultural environment
• Ability to interact with executive leadership, highlight issues and provide options and solutions for resolution
• Fosters collaboration among team members
• Experience in business process improvement
• Ability to build trusting relationships, credibility, and strong communications skills to influence stakeholder, connect partners to improve project decision-making, which drives business value
• Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate meetings where you will articulate complex concepts
• Change Oriented – works effectively in the face of ambiguity, shifting priorities, and rapid change. Maintains a positive outlook in difficult situations

Why Proofpoint

We are wholly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a pioneer in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner. We welcome candidates from all walks of life. Apply today and explore your future #Lifeatproofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!