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Customer Project Manager Managed Services

Job ID: 00045623
Location: Overland Park, KS
Date: 08/20/2011

Job ID: 00045623

Description

Title: Customer Project Manager
Description:
Ericsson is looking for Customer Project Managers to provide coordination, tracking and process support within its PMO organization.
The customer project manager is responsible for managing the project towards its goal in terms of scope, time, costs, and quality. This includes monitoring and controlling project progress and deliveries, and focusing on the needs and priorities of the customer and other important project stakeholders. Improve profitability and customer satisfaction by managing medium projects, or elements of a larger, complex project.
Responsibilities:
· Administrates plans, risk handling, resource issues and is accountable to a Portfolio Manager.
· Generates project reports including status, risks, issues and action items.
· Lead responsibility for activities relating to planning, scheduling, execution, budgeting and forecasting.
· Creates and disseminates meeting minutes.
· Coordinates information flow.
· Facilitates approval process for project deliverables.
· Administers the project's shared document repository.
· Ensures compliance with all guidelines under the Project Management Office Change Management activities.
· Closure activities of project through customer final acceptance.
· Resource management of matrixed project team.
· Understand and assure quality standards are met on assigned deliverables.
· Possess strong understanding of project methods and processes.
· Mentors less experienced project managers.

Qualifications

Skills, Experience and Education:
· Bachelors degree, preferably in a science, business or telecommunications discipline; or a minimum of eight years of progressive experience in a related field.
· Four to six years experience in project management, and/or related functional areas in a communication systems companies.
· Highly developed working knowledge of business process.
· Good knowledge and skills in use of computer, including Microsoft Office tools, and telecommunications.
· Strong financial knowledge/training.
· Actively pursuing professional project management certification (PMP), or is certified.
· Travel may be required.
Core Competencies:
· Demonstrated problem solving skills and negotiation skills.
· Ability to drive outcomes in a matrix-management organization.
· Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
· Must be able to work independently with great accuracy.
· Assumes ownership of issues through to resolution.
· Takes a logical and orderly approach to analyzing problems, organizing work and planning actions.
· Strong organizational skills.
· Good interpersonal, presentation, written and oral communication skills.
· Consistent track record of meeting objectives.
· Identifies needs of both internal and external customers and meets or exceeds their expectations in a resource efficient way.

Job

Customer Project Manager

Primary Location

US-KS-Overland Park

Schedule

Full-time

Job Posting

May 14, 2012, 6:06:57 PM

Unposting Date

Jul 1, 2012, 12:59:59 AM

Job Type

Standard
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