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Arelion

Delivery Project Manager —

Arelion, Secaucus, New Jersey, us, 07094

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The generic role of the Delivery Project Manager; reporting to the Head of Service Delivery Team; you will work as part of Arelion Service Delivery unit, to bring on your knowledge/competence into the Delivery organization. You will take on delivery projects, special projects, support the business, also drive process improvement as necessary.

Key Responsibilities; You will support the Delivery organization in technical queries and also take on delivery projects with higher technical complexity. You will be required to be the coordinating interface and responsible for customer deliveries. The Delivery Project Manager will own the delivery of the project and will ultimately be accountable for the delivery fulfilment, the quality and timely delivery of the service.

You will be responsible for projects end-to-end, i.e. communication to customers, suppliers and internal units, support system registrations and delivery escalations. You will also be involved when it comes to drafting and initiating process and system improvements; and are encouraged to make recommendations where possible. You will be responsible to drive and plan the project, reporting on progress and outcome of the project.

Day to Day tasks;

Support the Delivery organizations on their technical queries.

Take on delivery projects and ensure that required internal units receive their activities and tasks

Supervise the order by continuous contact with involved internal units and suppliers.

Provide continuous status updates and feedback on deviating issues to customer

Follow-up with internal tasks and ensure completion.

Ensure correct registration of all service components in support systems.

Co-ordination of field engineers throughout delivery process including testing and service activation

Lead troubleshooting as necessary, with involved stakeholders

Send documentation according to Arelion Delivery process to customer.

Collect and store test protocols.

Manage local tails, cross connects and CPE with suppliers

Escalation of any issues that may affect the communicated RFS date

Manage Early Life support for delivered service.

Support Sales in customer meetings regarding delivery related questions

Work as an advisor and cooperate with Operation Developers within Customer Operations.

Work closely with Product Management when new products are going to be launched and inform Delivery about the very same

Responsible for organizing trainings or conducting them to Delivery coordinators for new and existing techniques and for documenting guidelines for how to handle special solutions.

Additional tasks;

You may be involved in the whole service life cycle to generate value for our customers.

Top customers have a dedicated Delivery Project Manager within the Service Delivery team. You may be part of an account team facing those customers together with Sales & Solution Engineers. This creates a better relationship, and your role will be to maintain and improve this with your assigned customer(s).

Customer / internal meetings (physical, video or. phone); be able to run a structured meeting and provide clear feedback

Draft and define a project plan and be comfortable to present and walk customers through this as required.

Define non-standard processes and align them within the organization.

Assist in reporting and demonstrate ability to follow up on high order volumes simultaneously by adopting appropriate tools.

COMMUNICATION CONTEXT Key Internal Contacts:

Arelion Networks

GSO NW Transport Networks

Arelion Customer Services

Arelion Product Management

Arelion Sales & Marketing

Arelion Finance & Business Control

Arelion Procurement

Key External Contacts:

Arelion customers

First Line Maintenance (FLM)

Installation and Commissioning (I&C) providers

Network suppliers, i.e. access and colocation suppliers

FRAME Provide information, exchange and influence.

INNOVATION SCOPE In this position, you are expected to adapt to the fast-evolving Telecom environment. Using your expertise, you are expected to collaborate with your colleagues to generate innovative ideas. For example, this can be to simplify an input to a process or a totally new idea to positively influence our customers’ experience.

You will be required to identify gaps and suggest ideas on how to address them by creating synergies with other colleagues.

FRAME Within own work area and across functions and Arelion Company

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Must have previous experience of working in a Service Delivery environment within a telecommunications company

Passion for client satisfaction and customer service

Project management experience is a must

Record of project management/service delivery success

Strong and current awareness of external trends and best practice

Excellent analytical & organisational skills

High level of documentation, presentation & communication skills)

Ability to work across borders and boundaries (cross-cultural awareness)

Comfortable to work unsupervised and alongside Arelion’s key content customers

CORE VALUES & CORE SKILLS

Good team player

Excellent communication skills – verbal and written

Flexible, open to changes

Being initiative & convincing

Competent planning and organisational skills

Self-disciplined and able to work on own initiative

Ability to problem solve and rationalize when under pressure

KNOW-HOW EXPERIENCE

A minimum of five-ten (5-10) plus experience in Service Delivery within the telecommunications’ industry

Proven understanding in telecommunications’ r technologies such as Ethernet, WDM, IP, Fibre and Colocation alongside knowledge in network build and design

Ability to think out of the box

Experience on live Service Troubleshooting

Field engineer experience – installation / commissioning is a plus

EDUCATION

Post-secondary education/university degree is desirable

Experience of working to ITIL framework, or a similar project management framework is a must

LANGUAGE

Fluent English (written and spoken) is essential

Fluent Mandarin (written and spoken) is mandatory

IT/TECHNOLOGY

Ethernet & IP Services (Layer 2, DIA, Cloud…)

DWDM Technology / Equipment certification is a plus

CCNA or above is a plus

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Customer Care/Facing experience is desirable

Stress resistant and able to manage your work alongside achieving challenging objectives

High motivation in order to keep overview and assure successful finalization of all tasks under time pressure

Good knowledge of popular coding languages (eg. SQL, Python, Java) and agile frameworks (eg. GitHub)

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