Project Director

Job Description

Leading projects that deliver valuable business outcomes to customers is critically important to LotusFlare as its business grows strongly in the telecommunications market. As a Project Director at LotusFlare, you will lead the day to day execution of one or more digital projects while building a trusted relationship with the client, a leading European telecommunications provider. Your role is to oversee one or more customers and deliver high-quality, complex enterprise software solutions. You would be leading the project team consisting of LotusFlare and client team members and guiding them towards project executions and achieving overall project goals. You ll work directly with clients and you ll take ownership of the overall project and its outcomes. You will make an important contribution to the analysis, design, and implementation of agile delivery, project performance, and work closely with client stakeholders to ensure positive impact and sustainable results.You will have the opportunity to build on your proven leadership skills and leverage your interest in inspiring others, building strong relationships, and creating a true followership. In a collaborative team setting, youll work closely with others but also autonomously with little direction. Your superior analytical, quantitative and conceptual thinking skills and strong interpersonal and communication skills will ensure successful client projects and team performance. Client project work typically includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members.In this role, you must have a strong technical background and excellent problem solving skills. You must have a solid understanding of project management best practices and be comfortable communicating with senior leadership verbally and in writing within LotusFlare and also the assigned accounts. We ask for a lot, but we also offer a lot! Your responsibilities will include:
• Deliver digital solutions, comprising both platform SaaS licensing and elements of custom development, to clients in telecoms, media and technology (TMT) sectors
• Operate as the lead point of contact for any and all matters specific to your accounts
• Work with LotusFlare s product and engineering teams and externally with customer technical teams to propose and help clients build solutions that unblock deployment
• Build and maintaining strong, long-lasting customer relationships
• Coordinate with 3rd parties who may be involved in a solution delivery
• Drive project execution, track delivery, take ownership of change management, proactively seek and resolve blockers
• Manage testing, production releases, and project handover to customer support and operational teams
• Act as a key interface between the customer and the LotusFlare organization including product, sales, engineering, support and business
• Support project management activities, ensuring issues are documented and addressed.
• Be a part of a Global Delivery Team, share experiences and develop the project management discipline: simplify processes, methods and tools with creative ideas.
• Aid in product design and product development.
Job Requirements :
• Bachelor s degree from a top-tier university; advanced degree or MBA is preferred
• PMP and PRINCE2 certification is a plus
• 10+ years of experience in management consulting, enterprise software, or startups
• Deep expertise in industries such as wireless telecommunications, broadband or media
• Proven track record in client facing, planning, cost optimization, process improvement, program delivery and execution of complex digital solutions on time and within budget
• Experience working with clients in central Europe
• Making strategic decisions and providing leadership and direction to the team to implement those decisions
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem solving skills. Able to distill data and articulate the rationale for making difficult trade-offs
• Demonstrated leadership ability in an international team environment
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, create opportunities for others and a quick learner
• Comfort and experience with cross-organizational communication; excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Fluency in English, verbal and written
• Willingness and ability to travel
Benefit package:
• Competitive salary package
• Paid lunch (In the office)
• Private healthcare
• Yearly bonus
• Company stock options
• Training and workshops
• Truly flexible working hours
• Work from anywhere (office or remote)
• Top-of-the-class engineers to learn from and work with
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Keyskills :
budgetingsafetyproduct designworking with clientsprocurementproject management