IT Project Manager- Telecom

• Manage end-to-end large project activities that include several stages or phases or small programs that include few projects and ensure compliance with requirements using both waterfall and Agile approaches.
• Establish official and standardized project management processes and guidelines for the overall project, and ensure these are followed for all projects.
• Plan and prioritize sub-milestones to meet the overall project goals and objectives.
• Identify project inter-dependencies and pre-requisites to minimize contract/WO extensions and project changes.
• Monitor overall project cost, schedule, and technical performance, and take preventative or corrective actions as required.
• Responsible for determining and coordinating the sharing of resources among their constituent projects to the overall benefit of the project.
• Responsible for stakeholder management across the full project.
• Manage inter-relations between various planned/ongoing projects to capture pre-requisites and align projects’ implementation.
• Maintain an effective relationship with all involved vendors and contractors to ensure project delivery within scope, budget, and time.
• Ensure effective closeout and handover of completed projects.
• Provide project management methodology and the latest Agile methodology in the telecom industry, mainly in IT and systems projects.
• Prepare the ongoing periodical progress reports during the project life cycle.
• Provide standardized and consolidated reporting across all projects in each project.
• Participate in budget preparation in the initial stages of the project and during implementation, controlling and monitoring the budget to ensure that it is within budget limits.
• Processing and release of contractors/sub-contractors payments.
• Manage payment acceptance processing and project documentation.
• Provide cash flow and capitalization reports as requested and agreed with the finance team on a monthly basis, either direct submission or in ONES for all managed contracts/WOs.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in the related field.
• PM certificates are preferred.
• Project management methodology and the latest Agile methodology in the telecom industry, mainly in IT and systems projects.