Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TEKFORTUNE INC is recruiting for a confidential client for a Project Manager. The role governs and coordinates project delivery across teams, maintaining integrated views of scope, schedule, cost, risks, dependencies, readiness, and stakeholder reporting.
Responsibilities
- Govern the project wrapper for a defined batch of work
- Provide project governance for clearly defined work, typically requiring coordination across one or two delivery teams
- Ensure the project is governed through the correct channels and with the appropriate level of discipline
- Function as the primary coordination point for business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Create and maintain a unified view of scope, schedule, and cost
- Maintain an integrated view of scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery commitments across participating teams
- Partner with the Portfolio Management Team to track budget and cost for non-labor spend and provide visibility of project-related work flowing through long-lived teams
- Actively manage cost and budget for temporary teams organized around the project scope where required
- Facilitate intake, framing, and routing
- Coordinate project intake and framing through standard governance channels
- Engage Agile Teams, ARTs, Platform Owners, Product Owners, and accountable parties based on how the scope will be delivered
- Do not approve or prioritize intake directly unless explicitly delegated
- Coordinate dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions
- Maintain an integrated view of project dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, owners, due dates, and escalation paths
- Escalate when progress stalls, ownership is unclear, or decisions exceed team authority
- Work effectively with long-lived Agile Teams and ARTs
- Work within existing governance, tooling, and delivery methods
- Respect the governance boundaries of Scrum Masters, RTEs, Platform Owners, Product Owners, System Architects, and delivery teams
- Build project-level views around standing structures rather than replacing them
- Coordinate readiness, milestones, release, and cutover
- Coordinate kickoff meetings, status reviews, milestone, release, cutover, transition, and handoff readiness
- Collaborate with Program Managers on integrated readiness and governance where the project is part of a wider program
- Collaborate with communication teams for deployment communications and stakeholder notifications
- Support incremental and iterative delivery
- Encourage sequencing that enables earlier validation, feedback, and value delivery where practical
- Coordinate staged releases with accountable owners and delivery teams
- Provide reporting and stakeholder visibility
- Communicate integrated status across scope, schedule, cost, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and readiness
- Support steering forums and governance reviews with a clear view of delivery reality and decisions required
- Support lessons learned and process improvement opportunities
- Work across organizational boundaries
- Coordinate across I&O, other National Grid teams, external vendors, and delivery partners
- Ensure external dependencies and contributors are represented in project governance and readiness planning
Skills
- Strong experience coordinating work across multiple teams, stakeholders, and delivery methods
- Demonstrated ability to maintain integrated views of scope, schedule, cost, dependencies, risks, and issues
- Experience in environments combining agile, flow-based, operational, and traditional project delivery
- Understanding of how to work with standing Agile Teams and ARTs without disrupting their governance model
- Experience supporting milestone readiness, release readiness, cutover planning, and stakeholder reporting
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to work effectively in matrixed environments across internal and external teams
- Practical understanding of staged and incremental delivery approaches
- Project planning and control
- Scope, schedule, cost, risk, issue, and dependency management
- Delivery governance and reporting
- Agile delivery and flow-based work management
- Cross-methodology coordination
- Budget and cost visibility
- Governance forums, escalation paths, and decision management
- Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, networking, telecommunications or technology organizations
- Experience supporting network infrastructure, WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, wireless, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, cloud networking or telecommunications projects
- Experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives and competing priorities
- Experience with Jira, ServiceNow and Microsoft Suite
- Ability to effectively coordinate cross-functional technical teams
- Program & Project Management
- Experience supporting network infrastructure, WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, wireless, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, cloud networking or telecommunications projects preferred
Benefits
- Remote work
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