Job description
Role title: Senior Project Manager
Excellent, proven project management skills with experience of managing multi-discipline teams. The candidate would ideally have experience in managing development of at least one mobile phone or Datacard project to completion on time,. Candidates must be able to develop project plans, schedules, and processes for project tracking and risk mitigation.
Responsibilities:
- Manage/Support mobile handset and datacard design customers from initial engagement to the final product launch as main point of contact for the customer
- Manage and motivate highly skilled engineering teams to achieve project targets
- Negotiate software and hardware delivery schedule between customer requirement and development plan
- Develop and maintain detailed, cross functional project plans & schedules
- Manage expectations of internal customer, partners and management
- Present project status and issues with senior management at both Icera and customer when necessary
- Chair working sessions to resolve project resource conflicts
- Organise plan reviews with customer and with internal development teams to match customer requirements
- Manage production and delivery of project documentation, customer specific documents, compliance statements etc
- Tracking and reporting of progress versus plan, instigation of corrective actions
- Maintenance and reporting of tracking parameters and statistics eg bugs found/fixed, test case passes etc.
Profile:
- An experienced customer project manager in the mobile communications industry or a proven engineering project manager
- Understanding of complex software, hardware and radio project deliveries
- Understanding of mobile phone development cycle, approvals process, IOT, field trials, customer acceptance process
- Ability to understand hardware and software issues sufficient to identify, anticipate and raise issues relating to the project plan
- Excellent communication skills in a customer and engineering facing role
- Highly proactive and ability to keep to agreed deadlines
- Willing to travel (up to 30% travel required depending on project phase)
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have a Engineering degree and at least 7 years industry experience with at least 5 years in the mobile handset design and support area. At least 3 years project and people management experience. Strong communication skills in the English language are a must.
In return you will receive a generous salary and package, including stock options and the freedom to make your mark in an extremely ambitious organization.
Based at Bristol.
