Project Manager - Professional Services at Cisco in Alpharetta, GA

Lancope is looking to add a Project Manager to our Professional Services team! At Lancope you will be part of an industry leading team that creates and delivers leading-edge cyber security technologies that directly impact our clients.

Primary Responsibilities

• Primary point-of-contact within Professional Services, for all project related activities. Ultimately responsible for ensuring a successful implementation at the customer's site.
• Act as liaison between sales team and service team to ensure success with projects and service delivery
• Resource Management: Coordinate activities of the Lancope project team and customer from project inception through successful completion.
• Integration Management: Devise initial project plan, monitor the execution of various activities, and coordinate any changes.
• Cost Management: Manage and track project budget, utilization, and other project-related costs.
• Time Management: Manage and track resource scheduling, and project time utilization
• Scope Management: Manage changes to project scope, through a formal change management policy
• Project Communication: Track progress and report status internally and to clients throughout the project life cycles.
• Risk Management: Identify, analyze, and respond to project risks, as they occur.
• Quality Management: Lead quality acceptance activities, for each of the project milestones
• Coordinate transition from Professional Services to on-going Support, at the completion of the project

Required Skills/Experience

• Ability to maintain excellent colleague and customer relationships.
• Experience managing Full Life Cycle Solution Delivery projects.
• Familiarity with Risk Management and Quality management.
• Experience anticipating problems and initiating corrective action
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• At least 3 years experience in a team-leading/project manager role with direct responsibility for managing the activities (task assignments, budgets, schedules, etc.) and successful outcomes of customer related systems implementations.
• Prior experience should include some security, network, and technical skills such as, systems integration, software quality assurance, product development or similar.
• Familiarity with the security and network industry is a big plus.
• Bachelors degree required/Masters preferred
• Willingness to travel, approximately 50%