Project Manager

Sand Cherry Associates•Denver, CO

17d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Project Manager for a large telecommunications network operations team. The work entails working with numerous cross functional teams and stakeholders to understand and manage escalations between teams related to network operations and enterprise teams. This role is responsible for hands-on development of creating and maintaining relevant processes and procedures to standardize and optimize efficiency. This position requires prior experience in network operations at a telecommunications service provider or similar capacity. This is a hybrid role based in Denver, CO. All qualified candidates MUST live in the Denver, CO area and be authorized to work without requiring sponsorship. Please note that we do not work C2C.

Requirements

Minimum of 5-7 years strong program/project management experience managing multiple workstreams, ideally within the cable, broadband, phone, or satellite industry
Working with teams in Network Operations
Proven knowledge of project and program management methodology
Strong leadership, stakeholder, and management skills
Excellent oral and written communications skills to stakeholders including the ability to influence, strategize and negotiate
Ability to think analytically and process information quickly, presenting it in a succinct and insightful format suitable for executives
Minimum of 5-7 years of program/project management experience using formal project management methodology
Experience working with PMO stakeholders in engineering, network operations, network infrastructure, and field operations team environments
Strong analytical and documentation skills are desired
Direct hands-on proficiency with Jira, PowerPoint and Excel are necessary
Bachelor’s degree is required with a preference in Business, Engineering, IT or Communications

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 2+ years as Management or Business Consultant preferred
PMP certification or similar is preferred

Responsibilities

Facilitate regular workstream meetings, to ensure cross workstream collaboration.
Ensure team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery
Provide visibility into delivery targets, commitments, and progress
Understand network architecture to identify upstream and downstream dependencies and to support the business in risk management
Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)
Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve
Communicates with leaders across the organization on a regular basis to ensure transparency into delivery, risks, issues, etc.
Execute Project Management across multiple workstreams to ensure a cohesive delivery plan is achieved
Ensure the respective readiness reviews and tests are coordinated and conducted in a timely manner
Support integrated reporting, status, and deliverable tracking across the project
Support the administration of Project status meetings and forums, including capturing action items and decisions
Establish risk management, escalation paths, and take corrective measurements, supporting issue and risk tracking and mitigation
Holds project team accountable for deliverables and commitments.
Support Program Manager to summarize workstream status, escalations and next steps
Utilize PMI PMP methodology
Integrate business policies and governance processes into planning and accountability for project roadmaps and strategy
Facilitate and lead project meetings and manage stakeholders’ communication
Coordinate, manage and monitor the workflow of cross-functional teams
Provide and perform quality assurance checks on project artifacts and deliverables.
Align deliverables (outputs) to the program/project workstream’s “outcome”
Own overall integrated project plan and manage cross-functional resources, ensuring on-time delivery, meeting of budgetary demands, and achievement of business goal