Program Manager, Process and Systems

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Our Process and Systems Program Manager implements and supports critical processes across the organization.  This includes workflow, capital budgeting and forecasting and project metrics and reporting.

Specifically, the Process and Systems Project Manager implements:

• Standard, high-scale processes across the program

• Project-level workflow processes

• Service Order workflow processes

• Optimization of workflows between teams

• Project capital reporting - Implements Salesforce-based capital budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes across the Large Project program

• Supports Project/Program Reporting:

  • Build, maintain, adapt and grow standard project- and program-level reporting consistently across the various Large Projects

  • Work with management and project stakeholders to evolve reporting for improved efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to adapt reporting as project workflows evolve and reporting needs change

  • Maintain diligent change control of the project reporting for consistency in reporting

  • Customize reporting where necessary for specific project needs

  • Manage, maintain and evolve rollup reporting to concisely and accurately report program status at a summary level

Our Process and Systems Program Manager is a critical support to the overall project management team and enables the project management teams to successfully and proactively meet their key objectives through project reporting. These objectives include:

• Lead all elements of network installation

• Manage customer requirements and expectations

• Develop and manage the project schedule

• Develop and manage the project budget

• Aggressively manage execution

• Develop and implement project processes, reporting and metrics

• Transparently report project progress
   

Qualifications

• Essential qualifications to the role:

  • Advanced Excel experience required with an emphasis in reporting and presentation

  • Familiarity and ideally experience with Tableau/Einstein Analytics, Domo or similar CRM tools

  • Working experience with Site Tracker or similar workflow products

  • Working knowledge of Salesforce

  • Working knowledge of GIS-based tools such as MapInfo, ArcView or Google Earth

  • Process and metrics-driven management style.  Exceptional report development, implementation and analysis skills.  Ability to adapt existing reporting or develop new reporting to match the unique and changing needs of each project while working within Zayo reporting standards.  Extreme attention to detail and an inherent need to understand.
     

• Additional qualifications relative to the project subject matter:

  • Project management experience with large-scale network deployments, ideally related to OSP, Ethernet and/or wireless networks

  • Experience with managing large project schedules and budgets (tracking, forecasting, reconciling)

  • Experience with contract/construction management including RFP preparation, budgeting and control estimates, bid review and award, change order management, materials management and project closeout is a plus

  • Understanding of OSP construction management is a plus to include OSP construction methodologies, route feasibility and design development, OSP engineering, permitting, make ready and construction processes, OSP metrics and measures

  • Understanding of telecom network architectures specific to determining project dependencies and critical path activities

Other Requirements:

• Minimum of five (5) years minimum project management experience required

• Experience in Workflow management/governance and Quality Control required

• Strong technical writing experience desired

• Passionate, positive, business-minded leader

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