Junior Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Oversee project implementation activities within customer networks

• Ensure that project scope, timelines, deliverables, quality objectives, and service margin targets are met

• Evaluate project proposals to ascertain timelines, funding constraints, and execution strategies

• Identify, schedule, and monitor deliverables, milestones, tasks, and project communications

• Record and convey project status, risks, challenges, and resolutions to management

• Conduct risk assessments and put mitigation plans into action

• Collaborate with Customer Operations, Sales, Bid Management, Service Delivery, Finance, and other stakeholders to achieve project and financial goals

• Work under the supervision of a Ciena Senior Project Manager in a collaborative, inclusive, and customer-centric environment

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline

• Up to 12 months of relevant project management experience is highly preferred

• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills to assess complex problems and devise solutions

• Ability to exercise judgment and make decisions among various alternatives

• Competence in planning, scheduling, and coordinating project activities

• Capacity to work collaboratively within a matrix organization that involves multiple stakeholders

• Proficient in Microsoft Project and Salesforce project management tools

• PRINCE2 or PMP certification is advantageous

• Experience in a matrix organization, influencing, and collaborating with various teams

• Application of technology, services, and business concepts within a project context

• Business judgment applied to intricate business challenges

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Customer-centric approach with a focus on relationship building, agility, business acumen, and influencing others

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment

• Initiatives for employee growth, well-being, and a sense of belonging

• Commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Accommodation measures for candidates with disabilities during the recruitment process