Project Manager I

Project Manager I

Primary Location – Napervile, IL

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V-Soft Consulting is currently hiring for a Project Manager I for our premier client in Napervile, IL. This is a contract/contract-to-hire position in the telecommunications industry.

Education and Experience »

• Education Level Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent.
• Generally requires 2-5 years related experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities »

• Demonstrates ability to maintain effective customer, business, and field relationships.
• Demonstrates ability to manage conflicts and collaborate cross-functionally.
• Demonstrates ability to make decisions, negotiate, and solve problems.
• Acts as a single point of contact for customer initiatives and escalations during the order management lifecycle.
• Understands construction dependencies including fiber builds, structured cabling, permit dependencies, and right of entry.
• Understands data services and solutions including dynamic routing (e.g., Border Gateway Protocol), static routing, and IP address allocation.
• Understands voice services including PRI, SIP and hosted PBX.
• Balances competing priorities, maintains consistent attention to detail, and adapts quickly in a dynamic environment.
• Able to manage orders that require technical knowledge.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Job Responsibilities »

• Plan and manage business projects, and make sure they are completed on time, meet the needs of the client and stay within budget.
• Determine what the client or company wants to achieve.
• Create timelines; and determine costs and resources needed.
• Generate a detailed plan and schedule for each stage of the project.
• Select supporting staff and lead a project team.
• Negotiate with contractors and suppliers for materials and/or services.
• Ensure that each stage is progressing on time, on budget and to the processes and quality standards of the company.
• Report the project progress to senior managers and the client.
• Manage risks and manage to avoid delays.
• Establishes and manages to dates required for on time completion of network and/or product activation and evaluates impact of change to the overall installation timeline.
• Identifies and escalates risks, issues, and gaps that could impact timelines, goals, and installation of network and/or services; develops, triggers, and manages mitigation plans for installation of services.
• Plans agendas for and facilitates required meetings; prioritizes and drives cross-functional activities as related to the installations being managed, and develops and manages communications, summary reports, and status for various audiences; provides accurate installation status information in the form of formal briefings, program/project coordination meetings, and written/graphical reports.
• Collaborates with various levels of sales, operations, engineering, and other functional groups to ensure orders flow appropriately and accurately through completion.
• Reviews sales contracts and validates services with customers to ensure accuracy of product orders.
• Consistently meets organizational scorecard, productivity, and quality metrics.
• Supports multi-location customers with multiple services at each location by managing the installation of the customer's services.
• Serves as primary contact with customer and IT/technical personnel/vendor/re-seller.
• Consistently meets organizational scorecard, productivity and quality metrics.
• May interface with customers in regards to their Ethernet and Advanced Voice products during installation of services.
• May support one or more products within Advanced Voice and Ethernet, including associated SMB products during installation of services.
• May support the delivery of standard product offerings or MACDs (i.e., moves, adds, changes and disconnects).
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Interested?

Qualified candidates should send their resumes to resumes@vsoftconsulting.com

V-Soft Consulting Group is headquartered in Louisville, KY with strategic locations in India and across the U.S., including Madison, Chicago, Denver, Harrisburg and Atlanta. Known as an agile innovative technology services company, we were recently rewarded the Large Business of the Year award from Louisville Business First, and were recognized among the top 100 fastest growing staffing companies in North America.

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