Sr Project Manager (2375)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world? 

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities. 

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns. 

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career. 

Position Overview 

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for delivering large scale undersea telecommunication projects at margins meeting or exceeding original budgets.  Projects must be run like a P/L center with the objective of increasing margin through project savings, upselling and/or contract variations.  Project Managers must set project strategies in alignment with company goals.  They manage projects through implementation including engineering, production, installation and testing by leading and working with a matrix-style project team across all functions and levels of the organization. 

The position requires problem resolution both internally and with the customer, and risk identification and mitigation. Must be able to deal with ambiguity and react to execution of both new plans and changes that minimize company risk. 

Serve as the main point of contact with the customer for all negotiations, decision making, scheduling issues, and problem solving throughout the program; monitoring and reporting performance against plans to ensure that contractual, cost and schedule objectives are met; and arranging modifications as required. 

Duties include managing budgets and schedules; serve as point of contact for cross-functional program teams with members from engineering, procurement, sales, production, finance, marine, and quality, issuing customer commercial notices.  Ensure all team members are aware of project strategy, objectives, risks and mitigations. 

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Project Manager for projects specific to Undersea Telecommunications Industry; working with internal teams, (Project Management, Quality, Reliability, Finance, Operations, and Marine Services).
• The scope of the Project Manager’s activities is to support one or more projects (simultaneously), from pre-award through RFPA
• Work with applicable project teams to own/support the following project activities:

• Manage P/L of project including increasing margin and revenue
• Develop project strategy to increase revenue/margin
• Develop risk analysis and project strategy to mitigate and reduce risks to SubCom
• Negotiate project changes
• Manage contract including terms and conditions, technical requirements, scope, schedule, and budget.  Manage the customer relationship, project notices and project changes
• Establish and meet project objectives by analyzing contract deliverables and collaborating with project team members
• Achieve financial objectives on the project and review/understand variances