Project Manager (Deployment & Migration NCS5K)

Millennium Technology Services; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Millennium Technology Services is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to oversee deployment, integration, and migration of TE(CISCO) equipment within telecom network environments. You will coordinate onsite and virtual teams, manage risks, and drive project success from inception to completion.

The role requires strong leadership, negotiation, and presentation skills, with experience handling complex commercial projects and customer engagements.

Qualifications

• Project Management experience in deploying leading-edge technologies within a complex commercial environment.
• Experience managing in a complex integration and migration environment, preferably for service providers/telco operators.
• Experience coordinating onsite and virtual teams with varied skill sets and seniority.
• Strong ownership and commitment to project success.
• Completed significant portion of formal Project Management training.

Responsibilities

• Correlate deployment, integration, and migration plan into a project implementation plan from the SOW scope.
• Create a project schedule and plan with resource and material requirements.
• Lead risk assessment and maintain control over identified risks and mitigations.
• Participate in preparing proposals and customer/vendor agreements.
• Oversee project staff including project engineers, vendors, partners, and subcontractors.
• Manage the project from start to finish including resolution of issues.
• Present service value to customers for new or existing business.
• May manage internal Cisco projects/programs.
• May manage ongoing optimization service to deployed customer network.
• Present detailed status reports weekly to both Cisco and customers.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Risk assessment

Scheduling

Vendor management

Negotiation

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Job description

Manages medium to large customer facing projects – deployment, integration, and migration of TE(CISCO) equipment to new/existing Telco network infrastructure.

• Corelate deployment, integration, and migration plan into a project implementation plan from Scope in the Statement of Work
• Creation of a project schedule and plan with resource and material requirements.
• Lead the risk assessment, maintain control over identified risks and mitigations
• Participate in the preparation of proposals and agreements at customer level as well as with vendors.
• Oversees project staff including project engineers, vendors, partners, and subcontractors.
• Manages the project from start to completion including the resolution of project issues.
• Presents service business value to customers for new or existing business
• May manage internal projects/programs within Cisco
• May manage ongoing optimization service to deployed customer network
• Present detailed status reports on a weekly basis, both internally in Cisco and towards customer

Qualifications:

• Project Management experience in the deployment of leading-edge technologies in a complex commercial environment.
• Project management experience in a complex integration and migration environment, preferably for service provider/telco operator
• Has experience in working with both onsite and virtual team, with ranges of skillsets and seniority level
• Has strong ownership/commitment on a project
• Has completed significant part of formal Project Management training program
• Has basic knowledge of routing, routing protocols, switching, internet and general network architecture.
• Has leadership skills and experience working with large project teams and strategic account teams.
• Has a working knowledge of the sales process including risk assessment and scoping
• Has a good understanding of the legal issues with contracts
• Has advanced negotiation and presentation skills