Alcatel-Lucent Motive Looking for Customer Project Manager at Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand Full Time

Wellington, New Zealand, New Zealand (https://aluperf.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/98544/other-jobs-matching/location-only)

Project Management

NI Network Infrastructure

2300000597 Requisition #

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Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

The team you’ll be part of

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia’s Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

The Network Infrastructure team is responsible for delivering IP and Transport technology and solutions to the New Zealand and Pacific Islands markets.

You will be leading the delivery of IP and Optics projects and technologies to our key New Zealand customers, and you will be responsible for overall project success and customer satisfaction, ensuring projects are delivered according to contractual obligations and within forecasted costs, time, and the required quality.

Your key interfaces for the role are the Account Managers and Business Development leads in the pre-sales phase of deals, and the customer and wider New Zealand and Oceania Project Management, Engineering, Finance, Legal and PMO teams during project delivery.

We are a small team looking after most of the big Telco operators in NZ and the Pacific Islands.

You will be supported by very experienced individuals in the local engineering and PM team.

What you will learn and contribute to

Are you passionate about solving problems?

As Part Of Our Team, You Will

• Manage and deliver customer projects
• Participate in pre-sales and sales process activities to influence project scope, quantify risk, and determine the project delivery approach
• Lead the project team(s).
• Plan customer projects and keep plans updated to reflect and anticipate changes by coordinating change management on all aspects affecting cost, scope, schedule, and quality.
• Monitor and control the project ensuring it is delivered within the approved budget, profitability forecast, and contracted scope.
• Manage the customer relationship during delivery and serve as the primary interface towards the customer in all activities-related to your contract scope, including customer complaints, corrective actions, and changing requirements.
• Manage the project contracts, including monitoring, controlling, and reporting KPIs and raising change requests.
• Ensure projects meets all quality objectives and look continuously for quality improvement opportunities.
• Actively apply appropriate best practices and lessons learned throughout the life of the project.
• Ensure all project-related tools and repositories are kept up-to-date and are accurate.
• Complete the project closure and handover as required.
• Ensure projects are delivered in alignment with Nokia policy

Your Skills And Experience

You will have:

• 10 to 15 years’ experience delivering complex Telco projects including design, integration, and testing.
• Experience delivering rollout programs in New Zealand or a similar jurisdiction
• PMI and/or PRINCE certification
• Excellent communications skills. You will be able to confidently and effectively communicate with team members, customers, suppliers, and Nokia executives.
• Excellent influencing skills. You will be able to negotiate resolution of operational or other project issues.

It would be nice if you also had:

• BSc in Engineering (Telecommunications) or similar.

You will be:

• A Self-starter. Able and willing to work with no supervision/instruction.
• Able and willing to take full accountability for fulfilling the role, and to have the confidence and ability to cover any gaps where planned inputs from others are not delivered.
• A Good team player.
• A Good communicator.
• Have selling skills and strong customer relationship experience to position new opportunities with our customers.

What we offer

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities via Nokia EDU, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
• LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

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