Description
JOB TITLE: Project Manager
The Project Manager has the following key responsibilities:
- Write quotations containing the project request, requirements, constraints, high-level design, restrictions, hardware and man power costs
- Interfacing with relationship managers, implementation managers, coordinators, customer network engineers and project managers as required to translate a request into a sound quotation
- Translate functional solution requirements into high-level designs
- Familiar with WAN, LAN, WLAN, IPT, SDWAN solutions Familiar with MS LYNC
- Ability to manage multiple projects/project teams simultaneously
- Efficient delivery of projects to the Customer, within agreed timescales and budget
- Forming project teams with required resources and ensuring resource availability throughout the project lifecycle.
- Initiation of projects through project kick-offs
- Setting and managing expectations throughout the project lifecycle
- Involving internal departments, as required, in the project to ensure successful delivery
- Liaising with the CLIENT Business, CLIENT organizations as required by the scope of the project
- Delivery of project work plans including clear deliverables and associated delivery dates
- Defining and measuring key project milestones
- Defining project risks and accompanying risk management plan
- Regular project status reports to the internal manager and customer as required
- Management of, or involvement of a manager for Vendors involved in the project
- Ensure successful project implementation via Change Management processes and procedures
- Delivery of project information required for billing purposes
- Adhere to the standard processes and procedures and project management tools as defined within Verizon and relevant to the (EMEA) Project Office
The Project Manager will have the following skills and qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years of project management experience
- PMP Certified Good verbal and writing skills in both the English and local languages
- Strong communicator both internally and to the Customer and third parties such as vendors
- Experience and understanding of complex, global networks
- Good understanding of Internet family of protocols with special emphasis on MPLS/BGP VPNs, BGP, OSPF etc.
- Complex network infrastructures (Cisco routing and switching, familiar with level 2 and level 3 implementations
- Proven experience with complex WAN, LAN, Wireless LAN, and IPT-Cisco Call Centre Manager infrastructure
- Affinity with network protocols as IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, SMTP,SNMP, DNS and FTP
- Experience with firewalls and Firewall rules (NAT, Checkpoint, Juniper-Netscreen);
Other key personal qualifications are:
- Result oriented; Customer focused
- Team player; Ability to work independently
- Flexible
- Strong leadership skills