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Zayo Group · 2 months ago

Strategic Implementation Lead

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$88K/yr - $135K/yr

15+ years exp

Zayo Group provides mission-critical bandwidth to impactful companies and is seeking a Strategic Implementation Lead to manage the large-scale Project Ascend. This role involves overseeing project management, documentation delivery, budget management, and communication with various stakeholders to enhance operational efficiency and improve network performance.

Telecommunications

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Overall Project Management

Develop overall master plan for the project

Identify project components, teams involved and inter-relationships between work functions and ensure engagement

Provide budget roll-up forecast to Service Activation Lead and Finance team

Apply customer priorities to project

Critical Path identification and key issue resolution

Provide setup and oversight to Large Project Tracker, critical to the success of any Large Project

Anticipate, mitigate and escalate project issues as required

Documentation Delivery

Ensure test packages are properly recorded and placed in appropriate repository

Ensure an appropriate close out package is built and reviewed prior to delivery to customer

Drive appropriate teams to compile, QC and deliver in required timeframe

Ensure delivery of all documentation contractually required

Project Budget

Work with project team to set up and manage budget

Pro-actively manage budget variances

Manage budget overruns

Notify management of potential overruns

Provide analysis of cost overruns

Owns notifying finance of incremental costs such as NetOps and NetEx

Network Design

Ensure reroutes are addressed from a budgetary, contractual and timeline perspective

Identify any long lead items and address as critical path including permitting, underlying rights and EPA or bio-conservation issues

Network Design oversight and divide into addressable or prioritized segments

Communication

Host and/or support timely status calls with customer to notify of progress & issues

Have weekly calls with internal team

Weekly status of project to management team

Daily calls if required to manage critical path items that could severely jeopardize delivery timeline

Communicate to all post installation stakeholders of all service requirements for service via signed MSA or SO, especially if unique in nature

Engage with sales teams – proactively and reactively – to ensure minimal friction in quoting and ordering solutions

Verify sales data accuracy and completion, and routinely interact with sales, finance, accounting, and operations in order to improve or update data

Define, measure and report on key business performance metrics, and determine data clean-up efforts and/or process enhancements necessary to improve the quality and accuracy of these metrics

Project management of various high-priority initiatives with the common objective of improving financial performance and operational efficiency. Project scopes will vary considerably, but may include data cleanup efforts, process/system enhancements, product training, and improvement of hand-off among internal stakeholders

Qualification

Telecommunications experienceFiber optics knowledgeProject managementStructured cablingRoutingSwitchingOTDR emulation softwareMS Office proficiencyCommercial focusAttention to detailCommunication skillsOrganizational skills

Required

Minimum of 15 years in the telecommunications industry with outside plant, fiber optics, telecommunication architectures, optical transport equipment, and project management experience

Must be conversant/have working knowledge of structured cabling, routing, switching, and IP protocols

Must have 10 years familiarity with all types of outside plant construction and experience managing large capital projects

Familiar with OTDR emulation software and ability to analyze fiber optic trace data

Must be able to manage multiple aggressive RFP and design construction schedules and responses

Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, AutoCAD Viewers software

Must be able to understand and read construction documents

Familiar with all facets of OSP management, including quoting, construction and delivery

Business minded and able to maintain a commercial focus

The employee will be required to meet with customers and internal support teams to review project scope and to ensure positive communication is maintained

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree, preferred

Benefits

Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Company

Zayo Group

Glassdoor2.5

For over 15 years, Zayo has been the driving force behind the world's most dynamic and forward-thinking enterprises, helping them pave the way to what's next.

Founded in 2007

Denver, Colorado, US

1001-5000 employees

https://www.zayo.com

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