Project Manager - Evergreen

Project Manager, Telecom

Denver, CO

Who We Are:

Excelacom has a global presence in the consulting and technology solutions industry with a focus on Communications and Media providers. We collaborate with our clients to solve their complex business, technology and operational challenges through a combination of consulting expertise and telecom-focused solutions and products. Excelacom provides extensive experience in product development, IT consulting, telecom-focused software and managed services, as well as strategic management and thought leadership to steer our clients towards a successful business and technology transformation.

At Excelacom, we recognize that our most valuable asset is our people. We strive to create an environment where our employees can contribute their unique perspectives and grow individually and collectively. Our diverse and inclusive culture empowers our people to embrace their ideas and transform them into innovative solutions.

Who You Are:

The Project Manager is responsible for end-to-end management of multiple simultaneous client development projects in the telecom space on a daily basis. You will interact with our clients on a daily basis ensuring that the client team’s expectations are set and met for each project. About 75% of your time will be spent in meetings with customers and your team. You will prepare for meetings so you are productive and on schedule during said meetings. You will go to meetings and get action plans finalized as well as nail decisions down for your projects. You will have around 5 meetings a day if not more. You will meet with your team members to give feedback, coaching, and guidance.

Challenges will occur daily, and the PM needs to find the solution. While managing your projects and people and resolving issues, you’ll also be delivering regular progress reports to a senior PM or executive and or stakeholders – all of this will take about 10% of your time. You will check on your project status daily to optimize your project’s critical paths. Your goals will be to adhere to the critical path of the project, manage your team’s unique skills and meet your deadlines on time and within budget.

The other 15% of your time is the business of consulting – productizing our work, supporting the growth of our Centers of Excellence, developing customer strategies (approached they have not even thought of), developing best practices, proposing solutions to customer issues or alternative pathways to customer goals. This is the main focus of the role.

At the Consultant-level, you will be expected to independently contribute ideas, recommendations, and solutions toward solving business challenges, construct key components of deliverables/presentations, and contribute to the development of Intellectual Capital (IC) and Marketing Collateral. You will serve as a team leader for individual work streams and acquire a comprehensive understanding of the firm’s expertise, product set, and capabilities. Most importantly, you will embrace our firm’s brand and core values.

Role and Responsibilities:

You may work on various projects throughout your career with Excelacom. The roles and responsibilities noted below pertain to the specific role listed above.

• Deliver advisory services to Senior Management and above in support of technology-enabled business changes.
• Direct complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and solution partners through all phases of the SDLC
• Providing project management and change management support on large- or small-scale transformation projects.
• Supporting the development of improved capabilities in clients across business processes, people and technology.
• In addition to delivering at the client site, you will be tasked in productizing Excelacom’s work, contributing to our Center of Excellence and working on Excelacom proposals to customers as well.
• Leveraging Excelacom’s domestic and international assets and expertise to bring new ideas to clients.
• Decompose key business problems to identify value areas and structure and implement complex technology solutions for the client.
• Prepare solutions and proposals and present to clients
• Manage and Deliver technology projects including application development, integration, data migration, testing, etc. for IT organizations.
• Program manage network and software development projects in the telecom space from inception through testing and release in an Agile development environment
• Meet with client staff on a daily basis to understand key issues with how they operate today and identify opportunities for improvement in their operations and technology landscape.
• Developing business cases and implementation roadmaps to support investment decisions.
• Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
• Create innovative and differentiated offerings, staying relevant and in sync with market demand and technology evolution.
• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
• Identify and qualify additional business opportunities

Required Qualifications:

• Proven ability to present and communicate at all levels with clarity and precision both written and verbally
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical personnel
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• Demonstrated experience establishing and delivering complex projects
• Prior consulting experience –in an agile environment – with a leading strategy firm, consulting practice, or consulting technology firm
• Ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives
• Ability to lead project working groups and possesses strong facilitation and data gathering skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• 3-5+ years’ experience in project management
• Good understanding of SDLCs including Waterfall and Agile/SCRUM
• Highly collaborative, team-oriented with strong stakeholder management skills
• Practitioner level knowledge of business applications or, software design or, software development or production support operations and or test methods

Preferred Qualifications

• Specific Mobile experience OR specific Wireless experience OR OSS/BSS experience
• Prior experience in Telecommunications, Media, or Cable is highly preferred
• Past success in generating new business with existing clients
• Agile or cloud certification is a plus
• 2+ years' experience in the telecom industry
• Good time management skills

Compensation and Benefits:

For individuals assigned to work in Colorado, Excelacom is required to include a reasonable estimated compensation range for this role. However, final salaries will vary based on several factors, such as candidate’s level, qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. An individual may be hired at the Analyst, Consultant, or Manager level for this role with each level requiring an increasing set of responsibilities. For regular full-time employees, the estimated salary range is from $75,000 to $125,000

Our competitive salaries are just one component of Excelacom’s total compensation package for our regular full-time employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, ancillary benefits, Life and AD&D insurance, 401k, and generous paid time off policies.

EEO Statement:

Excelacom, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Any decision affecting employment, compensation, promotion, or transfer will be based solely on personal qualifications and merit, regardless of sex, race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, disability, age, results of genetic testing, service in the military, pregnancy, childbirth or other related medical conditions or any other factor protected under applicable law.