Sr Project Manager Job in Bellevue, Washington US

Sr Project Manager

T-Mobile USA is a national provider of wireless voice, messaging, and data services capable of reaching over 268 million Americans where they live, work, and play. In a world full of busy and fragmented lives, we at T-Mobile USA, Inc. have the idea that wireless communications can help. The value of our plans, the breadth of our coverage, the reliability of our network, and the quality of our service are meant to do one thing; help you stick together with the people who make your life come alive. That's why we're here. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing project delivery for mid to large complex Enterprise projects with cross functional project teams that may be comprised about several departments, have high visibility, aggressive schedules and require negotiation skills to balance the needs of project stakeholders. Projects may be technical in nature and have implications and impacts associated with T-Mobile enterprise wide systems/system applications, network and telecommunication/product devices. Projects may be multi-tiered comprising several smaller projects that span multiple years; larger budget and business impacts. This position will manage work utilizing standard project management methodologies, process/procedures - projects have clear start/end dates; specific manpower resource allocations; budgets and clearly identified as a "project" by the business. Essential Functions: Is accountable for and drives project status reporting and meetings as communication and management tools. Effectively uses communications to ensure project health, transparency to risk and to maintain a strong project team sense of respect and trust. Identifies potential risks across a broad number of individual projects within a program and establishes communications and mitigations to address them. Communicates risks in clear business terms and technical terms and provides clear messaging and solution options at a senior leadership and executive level in both planned and ad hoc scenarios. Drives the program strategy and aligns it with the program business goals. Defines and establishes the overall program structure, including the definition and scope of all sub-projects, program support activities, and organizational structure. Establishes the tools and processes to track and report on the program health and progress towards program goals. Adjusts resources and organizational structure as the focus and goals of the program change to ensure efficient delivery of results. Defines scope of Programs. Incorporates strategic factors into Program/Project Scope and recommendations. Influences and manages the factors that create change and scope creep. Can manage and help others to understand the implications of change including legitimate scope shift and impact. Leads cross-functional or multi-team effort in defining budget requirements for a project or program, providing thought leadership into initial financial estimates for the business case. Drives business case generation with finance and the business owner. Manages overall budget and identifies financial risks and can use accepted accounting practices to maintain budget integrity and drive actions to correct budget risks or variances. Identifies factors that can drive potential variance early in the forecasting process and limits project activity to maintain expenses within allotted budget. Provides proactive and accurate reporting on any unresolved variance to leadership. Hold functional resources accountable to performance within budget allocation. Sets stakeholder and program team expectations and ensures that the deliverables are aligned with program business goals. Establishes the program KPI measurements and quality control points and aligns reporting to track progress against the measurements. Proactively anticipates and mitigates issues through validation. Develops a formal program change board that assesses and approves/denies all changes to scope, schedule, and quality. Leads with procurement and stakeholders in the creation of SOWs, RFIs and RFPs. Ensures that all appropriate legal protection such as NDA and MSA is in place. Validates deliverable and budgetary impacts for completeness and accuracy. Manages vendors against contracts to ensure quality deliverables prior to payment authorization. Provides proactive feedback to vendor management as appropriate and communicate and ensures compliance with company standards and values. Also, establishes program structure and reporting with a focus on minimizing bureaucracy and optimal efficiency. Leverages, drives, and rewards best practices. Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.