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-GISs 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.