Project Manager, Service Delivery

Zayo Group•Remote - CO, CO

2d•$77,100 - $118,600

About The Position

Zayo is seeking a Project Manager, Service Delivery to manage customer focused carrier wholesale delivery projects in one or more of the following product areas: Waves services, Ethernet Services, IP Services Dark Fiber metro.

Requirements

Bachelors degree preferred.
Minimum of five (10) years of experience in managing Telecom Service Delivery projects, specifically customer focused large scale project deployment and high volume order services for carrier wholesale required.
Experience with dark fiber, Layer 2 & 3, Ethernet/IP, and DWDM required.
Active PMP Certification preferred.
Thorough knowledge of systems/tools, processes, and application of project management methodology at strategic and tactical levels.
Knowledge of Fiber Engineering, Outside Plant, and field operations processes required for each project inclusive of budget, design, engineering, permitting, construction, splicing, and scheduling.
Excellent project leadership, critical thinking skills, ability to manage projects to the customer’s technical specifications and contract requirements.
Excellent customer management skills (verbal and written) including prioritization, risk analysis, conflict management/resolution.
Ability to influence teams to action that are not in a direct reporting relationship to drive toward company goals.
Self driven and motivated to provide exceptional customer service.
Ability to see and close personal gaps/growth areas; desire to continually improve and move up in the organization.
Subject Matter advocate for process and program management and driving improvements.
Strong system and process knowledge in Lit and Fiber services implementation.
Strong internal and external collaboration and relationship skills across Zayo teams, partners, and all levels of customer organizations supported.
Known as a go to person/trusted advisor that willingly assists other team members.
Ability to define project dependencies, manage project milestones, meet and exceed project KPIs.
Key Project Leader collaborating cross-functionally with Customers, Sales, Sales Leadership at a Project, Market, Product/Services level nationally.

Responsibilities

End-to-End Project ownership to include project kick off meetings with stakeholders, scheduling, scope and budget tracking, project management of internal and external team members.
Orchestrate internal and external customer project communication dependencies, timeline, milestones and progress.
Provide Service Delivery Performance metrics and analysis to support cross-functional Customer Business Reviews.
Customer ownership and advocacy; the PM provides ‘Voice of the Customer’ project feedback.
Develop and maintain customer project plans based on contractual requirements and service designs.
Budget ownership including monitoring, forecasting and gap closure planning with Outside Plant when applicable.
Perform and oversee daily PM operational tasks working cross-functionally.
Build, maintain, and report operational metrics for end-to-end milestone management.
Manage existing reports and dashboards to provide weekly and quarterly forecasting, metrics and deliverables.
Partner with PM teams to identify new metrics and tracking to drive improvements.
Communicate and coordinate plans and strategies with other functional areas including sales, product, engineering, procurement, network operations and field operations.