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Zayo Group

Project Manager, Service Delivery

Zayo Group, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States,


Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare, and other large enterprises.

Position Description

The Project Manager position manages Lit and Dark Fiber services Customer projects in one or more of the following product areas:

Waves services

Ethernet Services

IP Services

Fiber to the Tower (FTT) services for Dark Fiber and Lit Services

The Project Manager candidate possesses the following skills and expertise:

Subject Matter advocate for process and program management and driving improvements

Excellent project leadership, critical thinking skills, ability to manage projects to the customer's technical specifications and contract requirements

Excellent customer management skills (verbal and written) including prioritization, risk analysis, conflict management/resolution

Strong system and process knowledge in Lit and Fiber services implementation

Strong internal and external collaboration and relationship skills across Zayo teams, partners, and all levels of customer organizations supported

Known as a go-to person/trusted advisor that willingly assists other team members

Ability to define project dependencies, manage project milestones, meet and exceed project KPIs

Key Project Leader collaborating cross-functionally with Customers, Sales, Sales Leadership at a Project, Market, Product/Services level nationally

Responsibilities

End-to-End Project ownership to include project kick-off meetings with stakeholders, scheduling, scope and budget tracking, project management of internal and external team members

Orchestrate internal and external customer project communication dependencies, timeline, milestones and progress

Provide Service Delivery Performance metrics and analysis to support cross-functional Customer Business Reviews

Customer ownership and advocacy; the PM provides 'Voice of the Customer' project feedback

Develop and maintain customer project plans based on contractual requirements and service designs

Budget ownership including monitoring, forecasting and gap closure planning with Outside Plant when applicable

Perform and oversee daily PM operational tasks working cross-functionally

Build, maintain, and report operational metrics for end-to-end milestone management

Manage existing reports and dashboards to provide weekly and quarterly forecasting, metrics and deliverables. Partner with PM teams to identify new metrics and tracking to drive improvements

Communicate and coordinate plans and strategies with other functional areas including sales, product, engineering, procurement, network operations and field operations

Preferred Qualifications and Expertise

Systems and Processes

Thorough knowledge of systems/tools, processes, and application of project management methodology at strategic and tactical levels

Knowledge of Fiber Engineering, Outside Plant, and field operations processes required for each project inclusive of budget, design, engineering, permitting, construction, splicing, and scheduling

Communication, Relationship, and Leadership

Exceptional project leadership and critical thinking skills; Excellent customer management skills (verbal and written) including risk analysis, conflict management/resolution

Ability to influence teams to action that are not in a direct reporting relationship to drive toward company goals

Self-driven and motivated to provide exceptional customer service

Ability to see and close personal gaps/growth areas; desire to continually improve and move up in the organization

Qualifications

5-10 years of experience in managing Telecom services projects

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

The Base Salary Range: $78,500 - $112,100, commensurate with experience.

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