lead migration Project Manager (telco)Millennium Technology Services Group Phils Inc.

*For Cisco Philippines
Key Requirements:
• With over 20 years of experience handling Telco rollout & deployment projects;
• Should have some formal project management qualification ideally PMP, PRINCE 2, ESi or equivalent or be studying for such a qualification;
• Fluent in Microsoft project, excel and powerpoint and other tools supporting project management;
• Project Management experience in the deployment of leading edge technologies in a complex commercial environment;
• Project management experience in service provider/telco operator;
• Has experience in working with both onsite and virtual team, with ranges of skillsets and seniority level;
• Has strong ownership/commitment on a project;
• Has completed significant part of formal Project Management training program;
• Has basic knowledge of routing, routing protocols, switching, internet and general network architecture;
• Has leadership skills and experience working with large project teams and strategic account teams;
• Has a working knowledge of the sales process including risk assessment and scoping;
• Has a good understanding of the legal issues with contracts;
• Has advanced negotiation and presentation skills;
• Understands the organization, aims and processes.
Key Responsibilities:
• Manages medium to large or multiple small customer facing projects;
• Correlate project/program planning into project plan by referring to the scope;
• Creation of a project schedule and plan with financial, resource and material requirements;
• Lead the risk assessment, maintain and make sure they are executed;
• Participates in the preparation of proposals and agreements;
• Oversees project staff including project engineers, vendors, partners and subcontractors;
• Manages the project from start to completion including the resolution of project issues;
• Accountable for the Project Budget;
• Presents service business value to customers for new or existing business;
• May manage internal projects/programs within Cisco;
• May manage ongoing optimization service to deployed customer network;
• Maintains customer satisfaction score of 4.5 or higher;
• To work in Cisco Philippines office in Taguig City, National Capital region Philippines;
• Report to Program Manager/Director;
• Competent in MS Applications and IT tools, people manager, good communicator.
Core competencies:
• Project planning which covers schedule creation, risk assessment, resource planning, etc, specific on migration projects will be a Great Plus.;
• Service level contracts;
• Ability to balance multiple large and critical tasks;
• Advanced Negotiation, communication and presentation skills;
• Major account experience;
• Partner services delivery model experience;
• Ability to work independently in remote customer sites;
• Service solutions sales skills;
• Ability when required to control multiple project managers in the delivery cycle;
• Familiar with the organization goals, vision and processes.
Project Complexity:
• Manages medium to large, or multiple small customer deployments with clearly defined objectives;
• Projects utilize existing or new Cisco technologies, multiple third party vendors and cross multiple functions, have high organization visibility and may include
multiple locations or Regions;
• Manages multiple critical tasks in tight time frames.