This role is a senior project leadership position at Nokia where you take full ownership of critical customer projects from the earliest stages through to execution. You’re involved even before the project begins, helping shape the approach during pre-sales, then setting up the team, defining how the work will be delivered, and overseeing governance and stakeholder coordination throughout.
You’re also the person brought in when projects are at risk. If there are delays, budget issues, or customer dissatisfaction, you step in to stabilize the situation, put recovery plans in place, and get things back on track.
At the same time, the role has a strong relationship and business aspect. You work closely with internal teams, customers, and sales, building trust and ensuring that project delivery aligns with customer needs while also supporting the promotion of Nokia’s network infrastructure solutions. Overall, you’re accountable for both successful delivery and maintaining strong customer confidence in high-stakes situations.
Ensure that the projects in the cluster is delivered within the approved budget and profitability forecast. Based on the Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), manage the cost to complete and cost to control.
- Responsible to ensure the PM team in adopting the EXECUTE process for the project implementation.
Develop and sustains margins and productivity improvement plans, driving optimization of the organizations involved in the delivery.
Anticipate risk and evaluate related financial with risk mitigation plan and customer satisfaction impacts, working with responsible project managers for the projects in the cluster.
Manage tactical contingency plans for the projects in the cluster.
- Leads customer/project escalation process and supports to secure and restore the quality of the deliveries.
- Ensures appropriate PM involvement in SELL process, including risk assessment, cost assumptions and timing.
Attend Senior Management Customer Meetings on project deliverables when needed
Required to work closely with the other department in the organization to ensure the successful outcome of the projects.
- Understands the PMI Framework : PM Knowledge Areas, and Processes organized into the Process Groups (Initiation, Planning’s, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing)
- Proven track record in leading people – across many disciplines, these include, technical mastery, project management, people leadership
- Strong commercial and financial competency, with the ability to analyse detail while retaining the big picture
- Ability to form strong bonds with customers, understand their business needs and drivers, then translate into Nokia deliverables.
- Relevant degree
- Minimum 10 year experience within IT/Telco industry, of which, minimum 7 years experience in hands-on operational managing of project delivery
- Proven experience in managing delivery teams
- Experience communicating to senior-level management
- Strong people skills and able to build & sustain strong customer relationship
- Ideally have a project management qualification
Skills Required
- Understanding of the PMI Framework and its processes
- Proven track record in leading teams across disciplines
- Strong commercial and financial competency
- Ability to build strong customer bonds and translate needs into deliverables
- Relevant degree
- Minimum 10 years experience in the IT/Telco industry
- Minimum 7 years experience in project delivery management
- Proven experience in managing delivery teams
- Experience communicating with senior management
- Strong people skills and relationship building
- Project management qualification
Nokia Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nokia and has not been reviewed or approved by Nokia.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs include a global employee share purchase plan with company matching and multi‑year share awards. These mechanisms broaden participation and tie rewards to long‑term outcomes.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes major medical plans with supplementary options such as vision, legal services, and care navigation. The range of offerings indicates comprehensive support for medical needs.
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Parental & Family Support — A global policy grants paid leave for new parents regardless of gender and provides structured return‑to‑work support. Company‑paid life insurance further strengthens family protection across regions.
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What We Do
At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. As a trusted partner for critical networks, we are committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. We create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs. Adhering to the highest standards of integrity and security, we help build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable and inclusive world.
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