It matters to us that Team O2 is as diverse as the communities we serve.
We’re aware that we need more diversity in our senior leadership roles, so we welcome and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
Whoever you are, O2 has a place for you.
Come join us.
Location(s): Reading
Closing Date: 22nd March 2023
About the role
Working in our Portfolio & Technical Delivery team is an exciting experience. We are at the heart of new product and roadmap development. Working collaboratively with the product teams, the wider CTO & CIO teams, we bring exciting products to Virgin Media O2.
Key Responsibilities
- As a Senior Project Manager, you are primarily responsible for delivering the projects within CTO & NetEx.
- You will be involved in working across numerous other functional areas, such as IT, Business Operational Support Platforms, UK Operations, Networks and Technology.
- You will have responsibility for groups of projects ranging in size and length.
What We Need from You:
Essential Skills:
- Experience in project delivery, ideally at a Tier 1 telecommunications operator.
- Proven ability to engage at a senior stakeholder level, whilst demonstrating leadership and able to make decisions.
- Proven track record of project delivery, planning, operations, in a business and collaborative environment.
- A good understanding and first-hand experience of the traditional waterfall and agile methodologies used in the industry e.g. MSP, Scrum.
- Knowledge of Telco Networks functions, Information Security standards & best practices.
- Ability to understand organisational designs and structures, whilst understanding how to relate these to projects.
- Able to build relationships and convey authority in order to resolve conflicts and maintain direction.
- Ideally hold an PRINCE2, APMP, MSP or equivalent qualification.
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We’re looking to pay a great compensation package (depending on experience) for this position. We also offer plenty of extras to sweeten the deal, which could include things like bonuses, life assurance cover, health care and lots of flexible benefits.
Also, every employee has their personal development supported with a LinkedIn learning account; plus other role specific learning available through our award-winning digital learning platform - O2 Campus.
We also believe a great work-life balance is important, so we’re open to considering flexible working arrangements. Like to know more, feel free to raise it.
Join us and we’ll encourage you to be bold every day. So take a deep breath, your career is about to go to exciting new places.
If you have any questions around the role then please email [email protected] who will be happy to help.