Senior Project Manager - Nokia Software
Personal characteristics
The Senior Project Manager should demonstrate competence in some or all of the following:
- Behave Ethically: Understand ethical behavior and business practices, and ensure that own behavior and the behavior of others is consistent with these standards and aligns with the values of the organization
- Build Relationships: Establish and maintain positive working relationships with others, both internally and externally, to achieve the goals of the organization.
- Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen and write in a clear, thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
- Creativity/Innovation: Develop new and unique ways to improve operations of the organization and to create new opportunities.
- Focus on Client Needs: Anticipate, understand, and respond to the needs of the client to meet or exceed their expectations within the organizational parameters.
- Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
- Lead: Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
- Make Decisions: Assess situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization.
- Organize: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress towards goals, and track details, data, information and activities.
- Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create and implement actions plans, and evaluate the process and results.
- Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
As a minimum, the project manager must have:
- 10+ year of proven senior project management experience, delivering to an external end-customer
- 5+ years of project management delivery Software Projects in the Telecommunication market domain
- Proven expertise with one or more of the Telco software domains: OSS, BSS, Cloud Orchestration, Data Analytics
- Experience with profit and loss management of complex projects
- Understanding of both waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies, as well as DevOps solution delivery.
Furthermore, formal project management certification e.g. PMP, PgMP or Prince2 is highly desired and knowledge of mobile networks (5G, 4G), vEPC and Cloud based solutions is a plus.