Program Manager

SMX Services and Consulting, Inc.

• $80K — $95K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience in the Telecom field
  • 1-3 years of customer interface experience, preferably in a related area
  • CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional certification
  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI
  • Bilingual: fluency in both English and Spanish

Responsibilities

  • Review and analyze program objectives and requirements
  • Identify internal stakeholders and secure organizational support
  • Communicate customer requirements and establish shared expectations
  • Lead the implementation team as the primary client interface
  • Oversee documentation and task completion to ensure accurate project status
  • Manage customer demands and resolve conflicts effectively
  • Coordinate resources and interactions across multiple countries during solution implementation

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility from multiple Latin American countries
  • Opportunity to work on diverse, international projects
  • Development of skills in project management and customer relations
  • Exposure to multi-system coordination and configuration management
  • Possibility to advance within a growing company in the telecom sector
Full Job Description
Essential Function:
  • Program Evaluation
    • Review and analyze program objectives and requirements
    • Identify internal stakeholders and require organizational support
    • Understand the basic technical requirements of the project
    • Identify potential bottlenecks in the implementation process and solution workarounds needed to meet and exceed customer's xpectations.
  • Program Development
    • Communicate customer requirements
    • Establish a baseline of shared objectives and expectations
    • Define schedules and completion timeframes
    • Ensure proactive, timely customer communication
  • Plan Execution
    • Position oneself as the primary client interface
    • Lead Implementation Team
    • Oversee configuration management and change control
  • Project Tracking
    • Supervise team members' documentation and task completion in relevant systems to ensure accurate status and billing trigger
    • Provide accurate Project Scopes and Meeting Minutes to all stakeholders
    • Provide feedback to internal organizations, including pre-sales, Finance, Product, and Provisioning, to improve internal processes.
  • Conflict resolution
    • Manage customer's demands and possible opposition to meet such demands
    • Handle project planning according to deviations from the original schedule
    • Ability to contain and deflect aggressive behaviors from customers and internal stakeholders, which may arise under high-pressure situations.
  • Solution Implementation
    • Document all information needed for a clean implementation and transition to maintenance teams in different countries.
    • Define human and material resources to implement solutions
    • Coordinate interaction between different systems and people in several countries
    • Attend testing and implementation calls and online meetings.
    • Adhere to customer's schedules, mostly in Latin America
  • Documentation
    • Manage documentation efficiently to comply with tight delivery frames
    • Prepare implementation reports in standard and non-standard formats
Education Level : Bachelor's Degree, Engineering or equivalent experience in Telecom field
Work Experience: 1-3 years of customer interface experience preferably in related area
Licenses and Certifications
CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI
This position may be performed remotely from any of the following countries: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, or Peru.
The resource must be bilingual, with fluency in both English and Spanish.

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