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About the Role We are seeking an experienced and customer-focused Senior Project Manager to lead and deliver complex IT and telecom projects. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership, analytical thinking, and stakeholder management skills to ensure successful project execution within scope, time, and budget.
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About The Role
We are seeking an experienced and customer-focused
Senior Project Manager
to lead and deliver complex IT and telecom projects.
The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership, analytical thinking, and stakeholder management skills to ensure successful project execution within scope, time, and budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end
- project delivery
- , ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer expectations
- Coordinate and monitor
- daily project activities, workflows, and team performance
- Manage
- stakeholder communication
- , providing regular updates to sponsors and senior management
- Identify and remove
- project impediments
- to maintain team productivity
- Oversee
- project timelines, deliverables, and resource allocation
- Manage
- vendor and supplier contracts
- , ensuring service quality and compliance
- Deliver
- impactful presentations
- to customers, business stakeholders, and leadership
- Assess project outcomes, identify
- risks, improvements, and new opportunities
- Ensure projects are delivered
- on time, within scope, and within budget
- Drive
- process development, documentation, and optimization initiatives
Core Competencies
- Strong
- analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Excellent
- communication, presentation, and stakeholder management abilities
- Proven
- project management and leadership skills
- Financial acumen with experience in
- budgeting and P&L management
- Ability to
- prioritize multiple projects
- and work under pressure
- Strategic thinking with a
- customer-centric approach
- Experience working in
- cross-functional and multicultural environments
Required Skills
- Strong command of
- English (written and spoken)
- Proficiency in
Ms Office Suite
- Knowledge of
- IT and Telecom industry standards and practices
- Familiarity with
- Python, SQL, or willingness to learn
- Experience in
- process optimization and reporting to senior leadership
Qualifications & Certifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in
- STEM, Computer Science, or related field
- **ITIL v3 Foundation certification**
(Mandatory)
- **PMP / PRINCE2 / MSP / Six Sigma**
- certifications preferred
- Strong
- financial background
- is required
Experience
- Minimum
- 10+ years of experience
- in IT or telecom industry
- Proven
- customer-facing project management experience
- Experience working with
- international and distributed teams
- Strong background in
- process improvement, reporting, and stakeholder communication
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