The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead highly strategic cross-functional and cross-organizational initiatives, managing over 10 million in capex projects
• Create and manage cross connect plans via JIRA, collaborating cross-functionally with internal teams (and external vendors if applicable) to define requirements and manage timelines.
• Engage and provide critical information to leadership, cross-functional teams and stakeholders (Network Engineering, Optical Engineering, Carrier Management, Deployment, Transport Engineering)
• Clearly communicate roadmaps, progress, risks, mitigation plans and impacts to senior management and internal cross-functional and remote project teams. Steer teams based on business objectives, constantly align teams to those objectives, in the face of ambiguity and aggressive deadlines.
• Self-directed (directing cross-functional teams and management).

Experience & Skills

• Experience leading global, multi-disciplinary teams in fast-paced, change-intensive environments
• Extensive knowledge of project and program management processes, tools, templates, and management techniques
• Should have hands on experience on JIRA
• Understanding of Network engineering or ISP technologies & terminologies / projects
• Exceptional problem solving and negotiation skills, with the ability to work across organizational boundaries to drive closure of complex delivery challenges
• Take responsibility for release schedules and milestones, keeping up a high velocity in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong business acumen and technical background, with the ability to quickly understand and communicate technical concepts and challenges across a wide range of audiences
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the professional confidence and credibility to effectively engage and interact with senior and executive management
• Comfortable hosting senior level leaders and providing status/program updates
• Ability to craft a compelling message and tailor it for a given audience.
• Comfortable talking about technical matters with businesspeople and business matters with technical people.
• Able to express complex concepts in plain language to reach broader audiences
• Ability to effectively manage multiple competing priorities, meet aggressive deadlines
• Manage program/project schedules and associated dependencies, identify possible issues/risks/actions and clearly work with key stakeholders to mitigate for them.
• Drive issues to logical closure.
• Strong leadership skills and demonstrated ability to manage through times of uncertainty and change
• Proven past record of working with high performing teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of related industry experience managing moderately-sized projects and programs from start to finish within highly complex operating environments.
• You can operate effectively in a high demand, rapidly shifting / fluid environment.
• You have a proven track record of on time and high-quality project delivery
• You are comfortable communicating at all levels of an organization from executives to project teams