Lead Project Manager (Remote)

Terrific Long-Term Contract Opportunity with a FULL suite of benefits!

Our client is looking for a Lead Project Manager for a 3-month contract and will be working remotely.

Join the team at this Fortune 500 communications provider that's been around for nearly a century and be part of a mission to improve people's lives by connecting them to the power of the digital world.

Contract Duration: 3 Months
Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelors Degree and/or 5+ years of related experience
• 5 to 10 years Project Management experience in the telecom, engineering, or fintech space
• 1 to 3 years people management experience
• Implementation experience with multiple of the following technologies: DWDM, Transport/Waves, MPLS, Managed Services, Voice (PRI, SIP, Porting, etc.), Security, SD WAN, Managed Enterprise Services, Meraki.
• Exceptional Word, Excel, Visio, Adobe, and Sharepoint skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects at one time in the process, engineering, fintech or telecom space
• Proven ability to provide simple and clear statuses of all projects in their charge

Desired Skills & Experience

• 1-3 years of tech writing experience preferred
• SAP S4/Hanna Experience Preferred

What You Will Be Doing Daily Responsibilities:

• Develop, plan and manage implementation of activities for highly complex projects/programs for external/internal customers throughout their lifecycle
• Accountable for timely project completion and delivery.
• Analyzes work plans and schedules and develops project progress and status reports (including executive status updates)
• Responsible for resource requirements/allocation.
• Coordinate and facilitate project meetings.
• Develop and distribute timely meeting minutes, to include track/manage action items and verify they are incorporated into the program schedule and that deliverables are met on time.
• Assess/Manage risk, impacts and potential alternatives and escalate as required to the appropriate level of management.
• Set program objectives and establish clear measures to successfully define and meet project deliverables and timelines. Utilize the change control process to track schedule changes.
• Acts as project team leader & accountable for successful overall project completion
• Through partnership with other staff organizations, define Key Performance Indicators (KPI), training, process standards, policies, and procedures. Associated with complex projects.
• Ensure adherence to project related policies and processes
• Reiterate scope, roles/responsibilities and schedule on a regular basis and provide team members a single point of contact for all project issues
• Employs judgment to make business decisions about things that will impact the project, customer or company and has the authority to stop activities from proceeding when continuing to move forward would have a negative impact
• Responsible for identifying and ensuring participation of all required internal and vendor resources to ensure the on-time delivery of sold services within budgetary guidelines.
• Negotiates due dates based on resource/network availability to maintain Lumens profitability and to meet customer requirements.
• Acts as customer facing single point of contact during the life of the project. Often dedicated to strategic global customers for repeat business.
• Identifies additional sales opportunities and engages Sales organization as appropriate. Performance in part, is measured based on customer surveys completed upon delivery of services.
• Understands project goals and objectives as it relates to customers business strategies and long-term needs. Deliverables include project assessment, team formation, schedule preparation, statjeopardy reports, risk analysis, project status reports, and post implementation analysis.
• Acts as mentor and team leader to other teammates