Red Hat's Telco Consulting team is looking for a Project Manager to help guide the adoption of Red Hat's solutions in our key Telco accounts and service provider partners. In this role, you’ll actively manage projects to successful completion from initiation through delivery and closure specializing within the Telco services industry. As part of our team, you’ll plan, execute, and deliver projects on time, in budget, and within scope in accordance with business priorities. You’ll manage the project lifecycle, track project status, and manage project teams to mitigate issues and risks.
- Direct complex projects involving multiple stakeholders
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
- Define, create and execute project plans for project, portfolio, and product prioritization and implementation
- Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
- Proactively manage changes in project scope.
- Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and with other groups which have an impact on the project success.
- Build, lead, and coach multiple project teams throughout project life-cycles
- Provide frequent on-site monitoring and enforcement of schedules, milestones, and vendor accountability
- Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects
- Create risk mitigation strategies to anticipate, assess and resolve project risks
- Prepare project status reports and present project performance updates to relevant business stakeholders
- Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
- Ensure all projects meet success parameters and return on investment (ROI) targets stated in the original project proposal.
What you will bring:
- PMP Certification
- Agile methodologies are a plus (i.e SAFe)
- Telcom or Service Provider background
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Experience with stakeholder management and building relationships
- Ability to anticipate risks and devise solutions in the moment
- Awareness of organizational change management practices
- Focused and versatile team player who is comfortable under pressure, ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability
- Understanding of software development lifecycles
- In depth understanding of project management concepts
- Coordinate with geographically distributed teams and assist in training and coaching in order to achieve project goals
- Ability to collaborate with a diverse, global, cross-functional team
- Experience working with project and portfolio management tools
- Experience in an agile environment
- More than four years of project management experience
- Bachelor’s in computer science, information technology, management or related field (Master’s preferred)
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Skills Required
- PMP certification
- Telecom or service provider industry background
- More than four years of project management experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, management, or a related field
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Stakeholder management and relationship-building experience
- Risk identification, mitigation, and problem-solving ability
- Understanding of organizational change management practices
- Understanding of software development lifecycles
- In-depth understanding of project management concepts
- Experience coordinating geographically distributed, global, and cross-functional teams
- Experience with project and portfolio management tools
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Agile methodology experience, such as SAFe
- Master's degree
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as generous, with substantial PTO for new hires plus additional recharge days and an end-of-year shutdown for many non-critical roles. Paid volunteer time, holidays, sick days, and supportive expectations around taking time off reinforce the breadth of leave benefits.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — The rewards package includes performance bonuses and a recurring quarterly bonus program tied to company and individual performance. Availability of ESPP participation further adds to incentive pathways beyond base pay.
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