Project Manager for Network Programmes

ROLE: Project Manager for Network Programmes

TERM: 6 months initially, rolling 3 month after that.

LOCATION: Dublin City Centre

SALARY: 400euro;-450euro;/day

ONLY CANDIDATES WITH EU PASSPORTS WILL BE CONSIDERED

Reports to

Networks, Programme Manager

Key Responsibilities

- Establish project plan and initiate project mobilisation by confirming scope, estimates, resources, roles and responsibilities
- Monitor and control execution of project though the Scope, Assessment, Requirements, Design, Build, Test and Deploy phases of project delivery
- Provide leadership and decision making support by establishing project governance
- May be required to manage multiple projects within a portfolio
- Prepare and maintain realistic project and quality plans
- Prepare and maintain accurate risk, assumptions, issues and dependency (RAID) logs
- Proactive communication to business owners and stakeholders
- Monitor and control performance against project plans
- Monitor and control allocated human and material resources, associated OPEX costs and all capital costs against the project budget
- Work with Networks, Operations, IT and business teams to ensure business strategy and project requirements are understood, and solution is fit for purpose
- Evaluate and makes recommendations/decisions on technical options as appropriate
- Liaise with suppliers to ensure successful and timely delivery of projects
- Liaise with other managers as appropriate within the business as necessary to drive project delivery; resolve delivery-impacting issues, escalate in a timely manner and manage stakeholder and programme management expectations for projects
- Manage post implementation reviews by ensuring that own projects are formally closed, reviewed, and lessons learned are captured and actioned
- Produce appropriate documentation to support these processes
- Identify opportunities to improve business or project processes, and ways of delivery business performance objectives Management of third party suppliers to review the status of projects
- Lead cross-functional project teams; allocating and monitoring tasks to ensure effective delivery

Knowledge/Skills/Experience

- At least 6 years of programme/project management experience in a Networks or Network Operations environment
- Strong track record of on-time, on-budget and to-specification delivery of projects
- Demonstrable evidence of managing the full project life cycle
- Experience of managing projects in a fast paced, changing environment
- Experience in project planning and using MS Office suite of tools to manage tasks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work well in a team environment
- Sound judgment, decision-making skills, and the ability to work under deadline pressure required
- Management of stakeholder expectations
- Hands-on ability to manage and mitigate risk
- Management of major changes in business processes to achieve optimisation of benefits

Experience of working on Telco network rollout, OSS/BSS implementations and Network Operations is an advantage.

If interested, please send over an updated CV, along with current notice period, current and expected salary.

Kind Regards,

Alexander Souabni

Talent Acquisition Consultant