Cloud Networking - Program Manager

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About this opportunity:
Product Development Group (PDG) Cloud Networking & SDN is one of the four major R&D Units within PDU Cloud, SA CNFV within Business Area Digital Services (BDGS).
Prime accountabilities of a Product Development or PD Leader are to manage a development unit's performance, securing that the unit works towards defined/agreed targets, approved, and aligned with relevant stakeholders, using approved strategies. Further, to manage individual performance pertaining to each sub-ordinate. PD Leader is a People Leader (Line Leader) role.
We believe in trust - we trust each other to do the right things. Therefore, we believe in taking decisions as close to the product and technical expertise as possible!
We truly believe in happiness, we enjoy and feel passionate about what we do and value each other's technical competence deeply!
What Will You Do:
 Plan, track and coordinate the development of the product releases working in close cooperation with various stakeholders.
 Definition of project goals, objectives, strategies and priorities
 Setting up the project organization and securing resources
 Project Planning, Monitoring and Controlling Project Performance as well as subsequent reporting on progress and cost in the most efficient way to achieve the project objectives
 Executing the project, seeing to it that the goals are met and the requirements are fulfilled to the correct quality standard.
 Manage new or changed requirements as well as risks.
 Delivering project on-time and to customer commitments
 Securing and maintaining adequate and sufficient information distribution.
 Building up an efficient project team and related forums as chairman, as well as for dissolving it with lessons learned for organizational learning.
 Driving for Operational Excellence in all areas, ensuring optimal utilization of drafted resources and applied processes
What will you Bring:
 15+ years of significant software product development experience.
 Should have at least 10 years of project management experience.
 Given the responsibilities and deliverables from the projects, must have a high structural ability in order to create and drive the development teams on different levels.
 You are self-motivated, with the drive to solve problems and expand your knowledge
 Strong technical knowledge and experience of R&D SW and HW processes in large global organizations
 Project Management in large matrix global organization is big plus
 We expect you to be an excellent communicator, decisive, results-driven, people-oriented person with good networking skills along with the ability to motivate employees in the organization.
 You have a strong ability to see the whole picture and to focus on the important details in a pragmatic and result oriented way with ability to challenge when needed.
 International experience is a merit.
 Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification, with requirements for continued professional development is a plus.
 Team player with outstanding skills in cooperation amongst key stake-holders
 Proven and documented leadership skills
 Excellent written and oral communications skills in English
 Excellent understanding of Agile ways of working and methodologies.
 Good understanding of Cloud computing and Cloud Native domain
 Understanding of layer 2 and 3 networking internals, NMS/EMS
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Primary country and city: India (IN) ||
Job details: Developer
Job Stage: Job Stage 6
Primary Recruiter: Shibani Mandal
Hiring Manager: Kiran Ratnakar