Ericsson customer project manager

We are looking for a proven leader with expertise in project management to join our Professional Services team. This position requires experience with a wide breadth of oversight responsibilities spanning the entire project lifecycle for our Telco domain software projects, including management of scope, financials, people, work, risks, issues, communications, quality, configuration, infrastructure, procurement, and most importantly our customers.

What will you do as a Project Manager?
Collaborate with internal organizations and customers to initiate projects
Establish project governance and develop work plans
Manage and control the execution of customer-facing projects throughout entire project lifecycle, in accordance with the contract(s)
Orient and lead cross-functional and global project teams, consisting of software architects, developers, testers, installers, technical writers, administrators, sub-contractors and other support personnel
Track and report status/forecasts to stakeholders for project schedule, scope, issues and budget
Ensure project time and expenses are submitted/approved and POs accrued, in accordance with policy and revenue recognition guidelines
Obtain and manage scope acceptances and approvals
Initiate delivery of customer invoices
Serve as the project liaison for the customer and our, PMO, Consulting, Engineering, Finance, Operations, IT, Commercial Management, Resource Management, and Customer Support organizations
Gather and submit project lessons learned to PMO

Qualifications
A bachelor’s degree in business management, communications, engineering or related field(s)
Demonstrated project management, analytical and problem-solving skills with strong sense of personal accountability
Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, and experience interacting with both business and IT executive level personnel
Strong competency of interpersonal skills, team leadership, business acumen, relationship building and conflict management
Willingness to work in a collaborative environment and promote teamwork mentality

Experience with Agile methodology, Scrum framework and SDLC process
Proficiency with Jira, MS Project, SharePoint and Excel (experience with Mavenlink and Salesforce applications a plus)
Ability to travel occasionally
PMP designation preferred