Project Manager - Professional Services

Lancope is looking to add a Project Manager to our Professional Services team! At Lancope you will be part of an industry leading team that creates and delivers leading-edge cyber security technologies that directly impact our clients.

Primary Responsibilities

* Primary point-of-contact within Professional Services, for all project related activities. Ultimately responsible for ensuring a successful implementation at the customer's site.

* Act as liaison between sales team and service team to ensure success with projects and service delivery

* Resource Management:
Coordinate activities of the Lancope project team and customer from project inception through successful completion.

* Integration Management:
Devise initial project plan, monitor the execution of various activities, and coordinate any changes.

* Cost Management:
Manage and track project budget, utilization, and other project-related costs.

* Time Management:
Manage and track resource scheduling, and project time utilization

* Scope Management:
Manage changes to project scope, through a formal change management policy

* Project Communication:
Track progress and report status internally and to clients throughout the project life cycles.

* Risk Management:

Identify, analyze, and respond to project risks, as they occur.

* Quality Management:
Lead quality acceptance activities, for each of the project milestones

* Coordinate transition from Professional Services to on-going Support, at the completion of the project

Required Skills/Experience

* Ability to maintain excellent colleague and customer relationships.

* Experience managing Full Life Cycle Solution Delivery projects.

* Familiarity with Risk Management and Quality management.

* Experience anticipating problems and initiating corrective action

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

* At least 3 years experience in a team-leading/project manager role with direct responsibility for managing the activities (task assignments, budgets, schedules, etc.) and successful outcomes of customer related systems implementations.

* Prior experience should include some security, network, and technical skills such as, systems integration, software quality assurance, product development or similar.

* Familiarity with the security and network industry is a big plus.

* Bachelors degree required/Masters preferred

* Willingness to travel, approximately 50%