Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

1. Portfolio Management & Strategic Oversight

• Conduct regular reviews of on-going project scope to ensure clarity and alignment with business goals.

2. PMO Framework Development

• Establish standardized project management methodologies, tools, and governance policies that continues to align to business goals, ISO9001 and ISO45001 standards.
• Develop project dashboards and reporting tools for real-time visibility into current project status.

3. Tender, Bid & Scope Review

• Take ownership of reviewing tender and bid documents, with a specific focus on project delivery, management, and scope of work (SOW).
• Review SOWs to ensure clarity and alignment with current available skill sets from the PM engineering resource.
• Ensure that proposed project plans and SOWs are feasible and align with resource capacity and business objectives.

4. Revenue Forecast Review

• Conduct regular project review of project portfolio status to ensure on time delivery of forecasted revenue.
• Collaborate with finance teams to review project revenue forecasts, ensuring delivery of revenue.

5. Resource Planning & Deconfliction

• Deconflict resource allocation across multiple projects, working closely with the PM Engineering Manager to balance workloads and ensure resource optimization.
• Work closely with the PM Engineering Manager to forecast resource needs for upcoming projects, ensuring timely and efficient resource deployment.
• Proactively manage resource conflicts by prioritizing projects based on business impact and resource availability, ensuring that all teams can work efficiently and without bottlenecks.

6. Project Scope Review & Risk Management

• Lead the review and validation of project scopes to ensure that all deliverables are clearly defined and achievable within the established timelines and resource constraints.
• Conduct risk assessments at both the individual project and portfolio levels, identifying potential issues and implementing mitigation strategies.

7. Stakeholder Communication & Leadership

• Serve as the primary point of contact for senior leadership regarding project portfolios, providing insight into risks, mitigation plans, and project outcomes.
• Manage escalations and provide strategic solutions for high-impact issues that may arise during project execution.

8. Mentoring & Continuous Improvement

• Mentor and coach project managers to enhance their skills in managing complex projects.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, driving the adoption of best practices across the project management team.

Requirements:

• Tertiary Education in Data Communications or Networking Engineering.
• Preferably Project Management Professional (PMP) certified.
• Familiar with PMBOK project management process group and knowledge area.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of responsibility and urgency.
• Diligent in documentation, reporting and tasks tracking ability.
• Possess analytical skills to be able to solve issues that may arise during the project execution with the ability to work independently and cope with pressure.
• Possess excellent communication and people management skills to keep project team members motivated, perform conflict resolutions and make challenging decisions.
• Possess good time management skills as you will be working with project team members, customers and management, often handling multiple projects and parties concurrently.
• Preferably with experience in managing and implementing network infrastructure projects for service providers, financial institutions and large enterprises.
• Able to work flexi hours (even after office hours when required).
• Preferably with good knowledge and hands on experience in any of the following areas:
• IP network services and solutioning for telcos, ISP, Mobile, Broadband Service Providers.
• LAN, WAN, WIFI Technologies, VLANs, STP/RSTP, Routing protocols.
• Network security solutions such as firewalls, CPE based IPSec VPN solutions, token-based authentication solution, intrusion detection systems, antivirus gateway, data encryption and PIN verification systems.
• Appliance based proxy solutions and anti-virus security gateway.
• Appliance based Server/firewall/WAN load balancers, WAN Optimisation systems and Applications Acceleration systems.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio.
• Knowledge or experience in the following areas is an added advantage:
• Security solution such as PAM, Firewall, DDoS.
• Packet Optical Network solutions such as IPoDWDM.
• Data Center, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, SDN and NFV.
• Linux/Unix system configuration, administration, shell scripting and programming languages such as Python.
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum.