EMEA Senior Project Manager

The EMEA Senior Project Manager (SPM) is responsible for providing project management oversight and leadership for large-scale projects (or multiple medium-sized projects) delivering 3-GIS technology into Tier 1 and Tier 2 Telecommunication companies. This role will be part of a highly motivated, self-supporting project management team that plays an integral part in delivery of projects and are key enablers of 3-GIS’s strategic goals. Essential Functions:

• Provides project management to large-scale projects or programs (or multiple medium-sized projects)
• Leads and motivates the project team toward desired project objective and outcomes
• Sets and continually manages project expectations with all stakeholders while delegating and managing deliverables with appropriate project staff
• Defines project success criteria and disseminate to the project team
• Manages project scope and changes to the scope of assigned projects; updates the Project Schedule for each project
• Identifies, documents and manages project issues, risks, action items, and decisions; resolves escalated issues in a timely manner
• Plans, organizes, directs, and control the activities of each assigned project, including budgeting, resource utilization, and financials
• Follows through on the day-to-day details of each assigned project including managing costs, hours, scope, quality, and schedule
• Reports financials during monthly PMO meetings to keep 3-GIS management apprised of project progress
• Leads internal and client-facing project meetings
• Provide weekly status reporting to internal and external stakeholders regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, action items, and decisions
• Conduct weekly time entry and billable hours review for entire project team
• Monitor project team member performance and escalate if there are any performance issues that may impact the project
• May directly manage others; actively monitors performance, participates in performance reviews, conducts training and ensures that deliverables are accomplished accurately and efficiently
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to PMO team members to encourage skill development and professional growth
• May attend and/or present at industry conferences, lead workshops or write articles for the 3-GIS website
• Actively participates in all company and department meetings and events
• Maintains excellent knowledge of all 3-GIS products, policies and PMO procedures
• Evaluates PMO processes and make recommendations to continuously improve operational efficiency and productivity
• Continues professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices in project management
• May perform other duties as assigned in support of the overall success of the company

Competencies:

• Demonstrated leadership and managerial skills; ability to effectively lead high-performing cross-functional teams
• Expert level knowledge in project management methodology and best practices
• Ability to understand and apply project management principles, methods, and techniques and train others accordingly
• Demonstrates a high degree of personal and professional integrity
• Ability to prioritize work assignments and shift work efforts based on the needs of the project or department goals
• Ability to work independently, be self-motivated and work effectively in a team environment
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and organization skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to represent 3-GIS externally with professionalism and poise up to C Level client sponsors
• Outstanding problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability; able to handle multiple initiatives concurrently
• Passionate about traditional project management activities

Work Environment:

• Works in an indoor office/home office environment
• Sit for long periods, standing and walking intermittently
• Use office equipment such as computer, mouse, keyboard, printer
• Occasionally lift or move up to 20 pounds
• 40 hours per week (100%) is mandatory

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline (or equivalent work experience)
• 15+ years of project management experience; minimum 5 years in Telecommunications professional services industry
• Experience of working with legacy technology (Smallworld and Ericsson Network Engineer) a preference
• Prior supervisory experience desired
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Strong PC skills required, including use of standard MS Office applications and Microsoft Project
• PMI PMBOK understanding; PMI PMP certification a differentiator

Expected Hours of Work:

• This is a full-time position expected to work 40+ hours per week.

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