Deployment Project Manager

As part of the Lenovo Truscale Services team, you will own end to end Project Deployment prior to handover to steady state. This is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career and expand your skill set. Success in this role means options to continue to progress professionally in Project management horizon. This is a great opportunity to learn, grow, and own a critical new aspect of Lenovo’s business. 

What you'll do:

•Work with Customer, CSM’s, Professional services, Truscale Business Unit lead and Principal Architect, Inside sales Rep.

•Assure Seamless and successful deployment of Truscale project is completed.

•Prepare Deployment Project plan with waterfall mechanism tasks, Subtasks, activities, Milestones and timeline appropriately articulated and agreed with Customer, internal stakeholders .

•Assuring all prerequisite to initiate a plan are aligned as per SOW and onboarding plan in conjunction with Customer Success manager including all relevant internal teams to deliver the solution.

•Leading project planning sessions, Technical Prerequisite sessions with customer and internal stakeholders.

•Coordinating staff and internal resources.

•Managing project progress and adapt work as required.

•Ensuring projects meet deadlines, Baseline project in case of timelines slip and perform stake holder communication.

•Weekly reporting/meeting of project status with risk , mitigation , Issues tracker .

•Managing relationships with clients and stakeholders

•Overseeing all incoming and outgoing project documentation

•Optimizing and improving processes and the overall approach where necessary.

•Securing growth opportunities and initiating new projects.

•Coordinating with Logistics PS other stakeholders on delivery.

•Align systems, manufacturing, and processes to flawlessly onboard and ramp Truscale customers.

•Smooth handover to CSM’s with process document including Handover Sign off , Risks register ,Issues register and runbook .

•Understanding of billing & invoicing.

Position Requirements:

• Knowledge of Datacenter including servers, switches, firewalls, storage, Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud solutions such as Nutanix, Vmware and HyperV

• Strong project management skills

• Very good English, written and verbal skills

• PMP or Prince 2 certified, Agile Framework understanding.

• Minimum 4 – 7 years of Experience in IT, OEM project management.

• ITIL Framework.

• Worked on CRM tools – Dynamics 365, Microsoft project planned , SNOW or alike .

• Minimum qualification bachelor’s degree or IT Diploma.

• Basic Technical understanding , Microsoft products , Cloud ( AWS , Azure ) , Servers , storage Box . Network Switches, Backup tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Dedicated work ethic and desire to become an expert in a field

• High-achiever and creative thinker always looking to exceed expectations

• Passion for data, analytics, and insights

• Take a high degree of ownership,

• Clear communicator with professional presence and attention to detail

• Love learning technology and new applications

• Be innovative, creative and bold

• Agility in Work, Flexibility and innovative approach

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.