Senior Project Manager, Infrastructure - West Coast USA

World Wide Technology provides technology strategy, consulting, integration, and infrastructure solutions for enterprise, service provider, and public sector organizations. The Senior Project Manager will lead large-scale infrastructure programs, coordinate delivery across multifunctional teams, and serve as a key contact for client stakeholders. The role manages project execution, communications, resources, risks, finances, quality, and customer relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple and large complex projects with multiple work streams
• Ability to create in depth WBS with interdependencies and a defined critical path
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills; Develop and execute an efficient internal and external communication strategy for ensuring communication with all levels of management within the team
• Monitor and report on project progress to stakeholders
• Build and strengthen relationships with the customer and stakeholders (internal and external)
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of resource plans ensuring effective resource allocation and distribution across portfolio of projects
• Utilize project management tools and techniques to improve execution and drive efficiencies
• Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with our methodology
• Ensure profitable and successful execution of all assigned engagements as measured by regional goals and customer feedback
• Proactively manage changes in project scope
• Effectively create and execute risk management plans
• Manage and analyze profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects
• Understand and manage key project financial components to ensure projects are delivered within budget
• Responsible for quality and timely execution of deliverables across projects

Requirements:

• Must be located on the West Coast USA - Pacific Time Zone
• • 10+ years of experience as a Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
• • Experience in a Professional Services or Managed Services environment is required (critical: must have led external customer facing projects, not internal operational projects)
• • Networking, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud, Security, or Collaboration (Unified Communications) Project Management experience required
• • Multisite deployment experience (Wireless, Wi-Fi, POS, etc.)
• • Knowledge of both the theoretical and practical aspects of project management
• • Understanding of financial processes; ability to understand, analyze and create financial reports preferably in Clarity
• • Extensive experience with people management, strategic planning, and change management
• • Proven experience with risk management; demonstrated ability to communicate appropriately to leadership
• • Understanding of and the ability to utilize the process of stakeholder analysis
• • Ability to work independently and aggressively track to project timelines
• • Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail
• • Ability to communicate well with customers and co-workers
• • Experience in effectively influencing and leading personnel and the ability to write business reports in a well-organized manner
• • Strong team building skills
• • Excellent problem solving, and critical thinking skills
• • Demonstrated communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation)
• • Proficiency with project management software
• •Must be in the Pacific Time Zone, USA
• • PMP certification is desired