Senior Project Manager
- Full-Time
- Palo Alto, CA
- Sail Internet
- Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Overview
Sail Internet is looking for a multi-skilled, highly capable, and detail-oriented person to do project management across multiple sales organizations for an established WISP. Projects will span Commercial, MDU’s, Condominiums, and other properties. In this position you will be responsible for planning, overseeing, and leading projects post-sales (contract/ agreement signed) through to project completion. This is a senior role and will require interaction with a range of internal and external stakeholders, most often managing several moving project parts simultaneously.
Candidates must be comfortable using various project management tools, best practices in project management, and learning technical aspects of the business. This is not a sales role, but it is customer facing.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
- Develop comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.
- Designing risk mitigation plans.
- Conducting project review and creating detailed reports for executive team.
- Optimizing and improving processes and the overall approach for scale where necessary.
- Securing growth opportunities and initiating new project.
- Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones
- Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.
- Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
- Analyze economics of project plans and provide actionable feedback relating to cost benefit and return-on-investment standards.
- Review proposed modifications o project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes.
- Oversee acquisition of resources and materials as needed before and during projects by talking with customers, team members, managers, and in-house accountants and negotiating price and payment agreements with vendors.
- Anticipate details of future projects by communicating directly with customers and staying informed of relevant trends and industry news.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in field of engineering, computer science, or business.
- Professional Project Management Certification from accredited intuition preferred
- 5+ years of project management experience.
- 2+ years of contract management experience.
- Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
- Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
- Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
- Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
- Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
- Other duties as assigned.