The candidate will be the Project Director for Master and Prime Integrator projects. In this role, the candidate will manage multiple Nokia organizations, 3rd parties and customer personnel during the planning, design, integration, testing, and deployment of the required solution.
The Project Director is fully accountable for meeting the customer commitments at or below budget and on schedule. The Project Director has the project execution strategy and Governance accountability and is the single Nokia interface for the customer and all project stakeholders for the contract.
Main Responsibility Area:
Customer Relationship Management
Develops/Contributes to long term Customer Relationship strategy
Establishes and maintains good customer relationship by:
Ensuring all relevant information is communicated proactively to the customer
Regular meeting practices maintained and agreed actions are reliably addressed
Project and Program Management Planning
Plans project based on PMI principles and processes (initiate, plan, execute, monitor/control, close)
Monitoring & Controlling Project and Program Execution
Drives each deliverable owner to provide their piece of the solution on time with quality, and the deliverables mesh together to create the solution required for the program
Supplier management including:
Support Nokia Procurement and Third-Party Management for coordination of Supplier deliverables:
Commercial and contract management across vendors
Creating, in collaboration with technical lead, supplier requirements, issuing requests for bid, analyzing and choosing the best in class suppliers for the program
Establishing supplier agreements and Statements of Work
Working with competition: ability to foster a team approach, and understand the legal implications of providing leadership to teams that are Nokia competitors in the marketplace, for the benefit of our customer.
Risk Management
Identify and analyze risks and opportunities and implement risk response actions.
Ensure risks actively monitored and managed and risk management plan updated
Stakeholder Management
Managing the expectations of Program stakeholders including customers, project team members, 3rd party vendors and subcontractors
Setting up and maintaining clear and effective internal and external communication within the relevant project stakeholders (e.g. customer and project teams)
Leading the Project Team(s) / Program Organization
Organize and lead the project teams / program organization to meet the contractual commitments.
Creates a productive work environment and a sense of teamwork across multi-party delivery channels, possibly including competitors, and Nokia teams to keep the program delivery on schedule.
Maintain the Program Management Plan
Continuously and proactively adapt Project/Program Management Plans and Delivery Processes to reflect the changing environment
Managing financial and non-financial Performance
Drives for continuous efficiency improvement
Aims to improve revenue and GM by preventing scope creep and capturing up-selling opportunities by effective Change Management
Closure and handovers
Ensure contractual requirements completed
Close the project (e.g. collect lessons learnt, document project completion)
Customer handover activities
Qualifications
Requirements:
BS, MS or PhD in Electrical, Computer Science, Operations Research or Network Engineering or equivalent experience.
PMI certified or equivalent experience.
Five or more years of demonstrated experience in managing complex, multi-vendor systems integration projects.
Working knowledge of 3G and 4G Wireless technologies, Cloud, IMS, VoLTE, and OSS/BSS.
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