Cisco Project Specialist Early Career Cracow 

Poland, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Krakow 

656845993

While reading our job description, please remember - we understand from experience that not ticking every box on the skills sections stops many from applying. You should apply if you feel you are the right person for the job and have the ability to learn and deliver results.

• Leads several projects to enable the realization of customer benefits and achieve customer value
• Commercial management:
• P&L, revenue, and cost management activities across the direct and virtual team
• Customer relationship management – responsible and accountable for Customer Delivery
• Able to navigate project delivery across multi-cultured matrixed environment - development of collaborative partnerships with the customer, sales and other Cisco organizations
• Perform overall project-level planning, resource management, partner engagement, communications planning and oversight of interdependent projects ensuring smooth transition to Operations
• Responsible for project metric tracking, accountable to delivering projects timely, within budget, with high quality while achieving customer happiness
• Find opportunities for additional business, provide input to presales evaluation, requirements gathering, and renewals
• Contribute to Cisco’s Project Manager Role Community by sharing lessons learned and best practices, and involvement in central initiative
• Delivery prioritization and planning – developing and maintaining a prioritized plan to deliver services that align and contribute to customer strategic outcomes. Proactive decision making across virtual project teams
• Project execution – working knowledge of ITIL and agile working practices, management of SLA's and Critical Milestones, development of get well/ acceleration plans
• Challenges the norm and seeks ways to contribute. Drives innovation, leading the team to challenge the norm and carefully reinvent where an opportunity arises to improve the experience to our customer.
• Identify project risk, issues, and risk response strategy; ensure Change Management execution to drive delivery and contract alignment for project duration.
• Ensures project remains in alignment with organizational strategic objectives and that project benefits are realized

• You are a recent graduate or on your final year of studies towards a degree or related program or other academic certification (Project Management, Business Administration, Management, Operations Management), ; equivalent experience accepted in lieu of degree.
• Proficient in English
• 0-2 years of experience in Project Management
• Strong organisational and leadership skills
• Able to legally live and work in Poland without visa support or sponsorship

• Interest in technology and understand technical issues, and can demonstrate technical expertise of other
• You produce quality work under pressure with immediate deadlines
• You are able to adjust in rapidly changing environment and to prioritize your activities/set the right expectations with your internal and external partners.
• You have written, verbal communication skills, with the ability to present to large groups with confidence
• Project management (ex. CAPM, PMP, PRINCE2) and/or ITIL certification is a phenomenal plus

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