Principal Engagement Manager

-We're Celonis, the global leader in execution management and process mining technology, and one of the 50 most valuable private companies in the world. We believe that every company can unlock its full execution capacity - and for that, we need you to join us.

**The Team**:
Celonis Services is a strategic services organization that focuses on the technical aspects of our customers' journeys, which includes Consulting Services, Academy and Customer Support. We are thought leaders with deep product, technical and domain expertise and focus on delivering Celonis implementations and driving product adoption for our customers. We achieve this by bringing together our best practices, delivery experience, award-winning enablement, and support expertise.

**The Role**:
As a Services Engagement Manager, you will support end-to-end implementations of Celonis’ technology across our largest and most strategic customers. You will articulate Celonis’ product positioning to customers and collaborate with Sales, Partners and Value Engineering to establish Celonis’ Services Value proposition and create statements of work with customers during the pre-sales phase.

In this role, you will assist customers in understanding how to build best practice and enduring capabilities, are responsible for identifying further Services needs by the customer whilst engaged and responsible for customer satisfaction throughout a customers engagement with Celonis.

**The work you’ll do**:

- Planning, scheduling, and management of project timelines and activities from project kick-off through to training, ensuring each project is delivered on time and meets the customers' requirements.
- Manage resources, schedule, scope and budget on multiple projects by creating and maintaining detailed project plans that emphasize speed to delivery and maximise the efficient use of resources needed to meet the requirements.
- Collaboration with senior executives, process owners and technical teams within each customer to understand their goals, objectives and requirements and to ensure their successful implementation. You will be their primary point of contact for product feature requests and escalation of support issues.
- Regularly communicate project status, covering key discussion items, action items, risks and issues. As well as keeping projects up to date in the Celonis Professional Services Automation System to enable accurate and timely project and portfolio reporting
- Proactively manage and escalate risks and issues internally to Celonis management and externally to customer project sponsors to minimize impact to project success.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to the implementation team, including partner resources, to ensure Celonis methodology is being followed
- Use your experience to Contribute to the continual improvement of Celonis Services methods as well as the maturing field expertise and best practices.

**The qualifications you need**:

- Fluency in English and Spanish
- Client-facing Engagement Management experience in enterprise software implementations, managing multiple projects concurrently
- Extensive experience in project management disciplines, including documenting and maintaining project plans, risk/issue/action logs, and driving problem resolution in partnership with customers and Celonis executives
- Strong communication skills and a background in consulting with a proven ability to manage Stakeholders and project timelines.
- Experience in people managing consulting teams both onshore and offshore
- Experience in positioning Services, writing proposals and “statement of works” within a complete ecosystem (customers and partners)
- A history of working with an ecosystem of partners and managed co-delivery
- Ability to effectively set and manage customer expectations
- Ability and willingness to be certified in Celonis products
- Project management certifications (PMP, Prince2, or Safe/Agile)
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or other related field
- Ability to travel up to 40% of the time

**What Celonis can offer you**:

- The unique opportunity to work within a new category of technology, Execution Management
- Investment in your personal growth and skill development (clear career paths, internal mobility opportunities, L&D platform, mentorships, and more)
- Great compensation and benefits packages (stock options, generous time off, family leave from day one, and more)
- Mental well-being support (LifeWorks Employee Assistance Program, mindfulness tools, virtual events, and more)
- A global and growing team of Celonauts from diverse backgrounds to learn from and work with
- An open-minded culture with innovative, autonomous teams

**A clear set of **company values** that guide everything we do: Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future**

**About Us**

Celonis reveals and fixes inefficiencies businesses can’t see, enabling them to p