As a Program and Project Management Senior Manager, you will serve as a strategic, data-driven advisor and governance leader for the Access Engineering & Optimization Team. You will lead efforts to reduce 3rd-party TDM spend by leveraging advanced analytics and AI to drive telecommunications cost reductions. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to reduce cycle times and prioritize opportunities for the acceleration of TDM spend reduction, ensuring customers are successfully repositioned for next-generation network migrations.

Acting as a trusted partner to leadership, you will be utilizing your expertise in data analytics and AI to build automated tools, track progress, and create advanced reporting solutions that highlight operational readiness, resolve bottlenecks, and track cost-saving metrics.

Responsibilities:

• Data Analytics & Dashboarding: Building, managing, and presenting complex data analytics reports and dashboards to forecast, track, and provide real-time updates on grooming efforts and network optimization milestones.

• AI & Process Automation: Driving continuous process improvements by championing AI-driven architecture, IT enhancements, and BOT opportunities to automate manual tasks and build robust analytics tools.

• Technical Project Management: Managing programs and projects from initiation through delivery, focusing on data-informed legacy network migrations and telco cost-savings initiatives (grooms, disconnects, and conversions).

• Strategic Advisory: Serving as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner, utilizing data insights to facilitate effective decision-making, operational readiness, and governance.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Leading diverse teams (Planning, Implementation, Field Technicians, Project Managers) to meet schedules, mitigate risks, and resolve production issues through technical best practices.

• Executive Communication: Managing the team's "brand" by ensuring cohesive communication, acting as a final checkpoint for data-backed executive presentations, messaging, and operational updates delivered to senior leaders.

• Resource & Budget Oversight: Overseeing plans and budgets, aligning key stakeholders, and implementing governance based on analytical forecasting and organizational priorities.

You are a strategic thinker and an agile leader who excels at managing complex, data-driven projects from the ground up. You lead with care and candor to champion simplicity and execute strategic outcomes. Your strong background in data analytics allows you to transform complex engineering data into actionable insights and present them clearly to executive leadership. You are comfortable navigating network environments and are highly passionate about leveraging AI and automation to create smarter, more efficient ways of working.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience in program/project management or Transport Engineering, with a strong emphasis on data-driven project execution.

• Experience working in a transport engineering role or in a closely adjacent technical capacity.

• Strong proficiency in data analytics, with a demonstrated ability to build reports, design dashboards, and present findings to leadership.

• Experience with process improvement, risk management, and integrating new technologies into existing workflows.

• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional teams and aligning key stakeholders to deliver specific operational outcomes.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Proficiency in SQL for extracting, manipulating, and analyzing complex datasets.

• Knowledge in any of these tools/platforms: OPTIMA, SingleRow, Access Unification, Verify, OTIS, Tracker, TPVM, LEC VFO Systems.

• Experience building complex data dashboards using platforms such as Looker or Tableau.

• Hands-on experience utilizing AI to build data analytics, automated tools, or executive dashboards.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or Agile Methodology expertise.

• A background in telecommunications, specifically familiarity with circuit engineering (DS0/DS1/DS3/OCN/NNI/ETH) and network optimization strategies.

• Experience managing vendor relationships and optimizing telco cost savings (ASR related activities to LEC/CLEC/ICO).

• Proven ability to identify manual bottlenecks in workflows and successfully implement automated/BOT-based solutions.

***This role can be located out of any US based Verizon location.***

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Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.