Project Manager (P-165)

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This role is available to candidates located within the United States. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or hold a valid U.S. work authorization to be considered. 

Role summary:
You will lead the successful delivery of complex enterprise infrastructure projects for external clients, ensuring exceptional execution across scope, schedule, budget, and quality. This role requires strong technical project management expertise, customer-facing leadership, and the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams across networking, cloud, security, storage, and infrastructure technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple large-scale infrastructure projects from initiation through successful delivery.

• Develop comprehensive project plans, including detailed Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), dependencies, milestones, and critical paths.

• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, and deliverables across concurrent engagements.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, sponsors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.

• Develop and execute communication plans, providing executive-level project status reporting.

• Create and maintain resource plans to ensure optimal allocation across project portfolios.

• Monitor project financials, including revenue, profitability, margins, utilization, and budget performance.

• Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate project risks, issues, and scope changes.

• Ensure projects comply with delivery methodologies and quality assurance standards.

• Coordinate multisite infrastructure deployments, including networking, wireless, cloud, storage, virtualization, and collaboration technologies.

• Utilize project management tools and best practices to improve delivery efficiency.

• Drive continuous process improvement while ensuring high customer satisfaction and successful project outcomes.

Requirements – Must-haves:

• 10+ years of experience managing enterprise infrastructure projects.

• Proven experience leading customer-facing projects within a Professional Services or Managed Services environment.

• Experience managing projects involving Networking, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud, Security, or Unified Communications technologies.

• Experience leading multisite deployments (Wireless, Wi-Fi, POS, or similar infrastructure rollouts).

• Strong knowledge of project management principles, methodologies, and lifecycle management.

• Experience creating detailed WBS, dependency mapping, and critical path schedules.

• Strong financial management experience, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, and resource planning.

• Experience managing project risks, stakeholder communications, and organizational change.

• Excellent customer-facing communication, presentation, and documentation skills.

• Strong leadership, team-building, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Proficiency with enterprise project management software.

• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.

Nice-to-haves (optional):

• PMP certification.

• Experience with Clarity PPM or similar portfolio management platforms.

• Experience managing enterprise digital transformation or infrastructure modernization initiatives.

• Experience with Agile or Hybrid project delivery methodologies.

• Technical background in networking, cloud, virtualization, or data center infrastructure.