Monday, June 13, 2011

"Senior Technical Project Manager" -- Permanent position based in Singapore for the World's leading Telecommunications Company.

Role Purpose:
Provides a professional project management service, managing client projects on behalf of Company. Planning and executing clients projects in order to achieve the benefits expected by both client and the company, delivering change whilst managing risk, cost and quality.

Maximise the opportunity for current and future professional service fees and other revenues by demonstrating professionalism, skill and expertise that adds value to the client’s business and thereby encourages client reliance on the company.

Key Accountabilities:

·         Ensure the project is initiated, set-up, defined, executed and closed in a manner that ensures delivery to the time, cost and quality parameters agreed with the client, whilst conforming to company’s Project Management Framework (or other as agreed with the client).
·         Ensure the project is transitioned smoothly from delivery to ‘in life’ support and that the project closure process is followed (Lessons Learned, Associated Actions, End Project Review / Reports).
·         Prepare project documentation as required and secure the requisite approvals.
·         Ensure project documentation is properly maintained and kept up-to-date.
·         Identify and manage stakeholders, including those within the client organization.
·         Define and agree the project plan, associated work breakdown structure and deliverables.
·         Identify and manage the critical path.
·         Ensure that financial milestones are mapped to contract payment terms and visible within the baseline plan.
·         Define and agree external and internal resources required – set up the team.
·         Build, engage, maintain, direct and motivate the project team for the duration of the work.
·         Obtain support and advice as required for management, planning and control of the project.
·         Ensure the contract is agreed and changes are correctly managed.
·         Execute the plan, monitor progress against the plan and recommend corrective actions as required.
·         Identify issues and risks, develop appropriate responses, manage and escalate if required.
·         Provide timely and quality communication to all stakeholder, in line with the agreed stakeholder map.
·         Report, via Project Highlight Reports, on project performance, actual ‘v’ planned.
·         Ensure technical, test and quality plans are agreed and are included in the project plan.
·         Ensure necessary project administration is carried out.
·         Manage project budget. Ensure project is delivered to budget, tracking expenditure, forecasting cost-to-complete and managing potential overrun and corrective actions.
·         Ensure ‘business-as-usual’ processes are initiated on completion of financial milestones.
·         Manage production, integrity and quality of deliverables.
·         Monitor inter-dependencies between project activities.
·         Resolve internal and external conflicts of requirement, resource and priority.
·         Manage change control and any required configuration management.
·         Liaise with other management personnel, where the work is part of a wider change effort (e.g. where assigned to a programme).
·         Liaise with related projects (e.g. where assigned to a programme) to ensure work is not duplicated or overlooked.
·         Identify and progress cost reduction and earnings growth as required.
·         Identify to functional lead, management tools, techniques and knowledge developed during the work.
·         Accountable for the level of satisfaction that customer/s perceive of the Company services.

Key Skills & Experience:

·         A self-motivated project manager experienced with the full range of skills within the discipline of project management.
·         Resourceful, with the ability to build working relationships quickly and effectively.
·         A team member.
·         Experience leading a multi-disciplined team.
·         Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
·         Good organisational, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills, both written and Verbal.
·         Confident and able to liaise at all levels within the company and the client organization.
·         Proven experience (6 to 10 Years) in managing telecommunications or technology projects of complex in nature and sub-contractor management.
·         Good understanding of IP, Data, Voice & Video products and services.
·         Able to simplify complex solutions and present to senior management and business leaders.
·         Proven experience in a client-facing environment.
·         Able to structure and prioritize work packages around client and project requirements.
·         Demonstrates and understanding of typical telecommunications PROVIDE, ASSURE and BILLING processes.
·         Experience of operating in a functional organization.
·         Demonstrates advance competency across Core Skills, Business Skills and Behaviours 2, 3 and 3 years experience, respectively.

Qualifications & Certifications:
·         Degree level qualification in Telecommunication/Computer Engineering/IT or applicable industry experience for non engineering Business Degree holders.
·         Recognised qualification or certification in Project Management (e.g. PMP or PRINCE/2).
Technology certifications such as CCNA/CCNP.

“Enterprise Network Capacity Manager” -- Permanent position based in Singapore for the World's leading Telecommunications Company.

Job Function:
The enterprise capacity manager is responsible for creating and running a proactive network capacity management framework that fits our customer needs. He/She is responsible for ensuring that services and and infrastructure are able to deliver the agreed capacity and performance targets in a cost effective and timely manner.

Key accountabilities:
·         Design, maintain and further improve capacity management policies and template reports.
·         Analyse utilization data across the network estate such as routers, links, COS, switches, optimization & acceleration appliances, IPT estate  and produce recommendations based on policies, customer business goals, application traffic patterns and potential failure scenarios.
·         Collaborate with the customer and the internal teams to accurately estimate short and long term demand.
·         Identify and correlate capacity issues against performance degradations with the objective of proactively resolve them.
·         Provide tuning and optimization plans resulting from analysis of the data.
·         Perform Capacity Management on key components like software licenses etc. (ex: for IPT users, voice recording)
·         Working with the customer touch points to understand the forecasts for new application roll outs and increment in bandwidth usage within the Customer environment (ex: due to increase in number of users at a particular site)
·         Translate the forecast knowledge into capacity requirements and feedback to the account and Operations teams on possible impact to services.
·         Responsible or accountable, as and when required, for continuous improvements driven either by the customer.
·         Maintain a register of capacity related risks and work with the team and the customer to mitigate them.
·         Ability to translate customer complex requirement & requests into workable solutions
·         Maintain all relevant documentation

Job Requirements:
·         7+ years of experience in multi-protocols, large enterprise on wide-area infrastructure environment covering capacity management or similar positions.
·         Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology or other IT related fields
·         ITIL & CCNP/CCDP certifications.
·         Knowledge and hands on experience of:
o    Multi Area Network and WAN technologies
o    Layer 2 and 3 protocols
o    Routing management
o    QoS technologies
o    Application performance management
o    Cisco routers and switches IP telephony (Cisco and Avaya)
·         Must have strong knowledge in OSI layers, Cisco IOS Commands and solid troubleshooting techniques.
·         Experience of working in demanding solution support environments.
·         Possess some basic/intermediate working knowledge on security products like Cisco ASA, Netscreen, GB Firewall will be advantageous.
·         Must have knowledge of network management and reporting tools
·         Some scripting knowledge will be an advantage
·         Familiar with network equipment configurations; routers, firewalls, load balancer, etc
·         Good written and spoken English
·         Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
·         Good coordination and  basic project management skills

This is a remarkable opportunities with superior challenges & career growth.

Applicants based in Singapore with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.

If this interests you, Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@adecco-asia.com to initiate the process.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

“Section Manager (Program Management)” - Permanent role based in Singapore for the World’s leading semiconductor manufacturing company.

Job Responsibilities:
·         Responsible for developing and managing to completion complex, cross-functional, semiconductor engineering development program.
·         Accomplish program goals in the context of a cross-functional organization with people from several functional organizations involved, and is responsible for on-time, within-budget delivery while satisfying customer requirements.
·         Identify and drive resolution of overall issues across multiple, and sometime conflicting programs.
·         Manage programs to hit the planned milestones by resolving roadblocks, managing the critical paths and driving the team to execute on time.
·         Develop a new program by incorporating various inputs from multiple stakeholders and working teams such as Technology Development, Design Enablement, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales and Marketing, etc.

Requirements:
·         Master or Bachelor Degree in Engineering.
·         10 years experience in technical roles within the semiconductor industry including technical understanding and background in VAS technologies, at least 5 years of experience in technical management and/or program management of complex, cross-functional engineering programs.
·         Experience with program management tools, methodologies and deployment.
·         Knowledge in headcount forecasting and resource planning as well as risk management.
·         Must be a strategic, big-picture thinker with a demonstrated history of leading successful engineering development programs.
·         Excellent leadership, communication, problem solving, planning and organizational skills.

As per my client needs, this role is open for the candidates who are currently based in Singapore.

This is a remarkable opportunity with superior challenges & career growth.

If this interests you, Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@adecco-asia.com to initiate the process.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

“Product Marketing Manager” - Permanent role based in Singapore for the World’s leading semiconductor manufacturing company.

Job Responsibilities:
·         Responsible for managing technology offerings over their life cycles to customers through the sales team to maximize customer satisfaction and grow revenue.
·         Defines entire product solution for assigned product node from process to full product including libraries, IP, design service, assembly & test.
·         Manages new technology introduction to focus customers and markets.
·         Drives new product (technology) roll out with sales collateral (design kits) including training materials.
·         Generates and maintains tools to enhance sales team productivity.
·         Determines and communicates customer requirements and competitive inputs to strategic marketing.
·         Defines and executes life cycle strategy for mature products.

Requirements:
·         Degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics, MSEE or MBA preferred
·         8-10 years of product marketing experience in the semiconductor industry
·         Knowledge of ASIC flow or system design is an added advantage

As per my client needs, this role is open for the candidates who are currently based in Singapore.

This is a remarkable opportunity with superior challenges & career growth.

If this interests you, Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@adecco-asia.com to initiate the process.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Monday, May 16, 2011

“IT Security Advisor – South East Asia” Permanent position based in Singapore for the World leader in the mobile communications market and wireless solutions.

Position Summary:
In this highly public facing role, you will be using your strong technical background, your ability to communicate, and consultative approach to the advancement and acceptance of the BlackBerry security solutions in the local market.

This role requires a versatile, experienced, and business minded Information Security professional who is driven to succeed in highly complex environments and is passionate both about technology and business. Security Advisor is a confident, trusted partner who has attention to detail, yet sees the big picture.

You will be leveraging your existing relationships and building and developing new ones with relevant government agencies related to technical policy, certification, and acceptance of BlackBerry product portfolio.

You will be responsible for developing a sound strategy in collaboration with internal stakeholders, and you will be managing approval process with external agencies. With your entrepreneur spirit you will be able to deliver value while working remotely.

Accountabilities:
·         Effectively engage in constructive dialog with relevant structures in the government, including policy makers and engineering staff, as well as telecom carriers and partners on product and service security, and technical aspects of policy.
·         Be able to apply expert judgment to resolve complex situations and remove security related obstacles for Government, Enterprise and other sales channels.
·         Support strategic, government, and carrier sales teams as a senior subject matter expert on BlackBerry security, IT security, and government regulations and relevant policies.
·         Provide local support to other areas of company’s Global Security: Product Management, Certifications, Research & Response, and Lawful Access teams.
·         Build effective content for external and internal use and deliver presentations and webinars to customers, partners and public audiences.
·         Represent BlackBerry Security Group at key public events, tradeshows, and association meetings in your region of responsibility.
·         Be able to leverage BlackBerry solutions, partners' products, and IT security expertise to provide effective support in dealings with customers and partners.
·         Foster relationships with national and regional authorities in Information Security.
·         Work with internal stakeholders and customers to help prioritize security assurance and certification programs.
·         Travel will be required

Essential Skills & Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of relevant professional experience in technology field with solid understanding of Government and Enterprise Information Systems and Security, Networking technologies and IT management.
  • Good understanding of government security regulations and classification schemas.
  • Very strong interpersonal skills, excellent communication and public speaking skills.
  • Previous consulting and/or technical sales experience in Government space
  • Solid understanding of wireless and telecommunication technology and industry
  • Demonstrated ability to influence, negotiate, build relationships, and handle complex escalations.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Management Information Systems.
  • CISSP Certification.

This is a remarkable opportunity with superior challenges & career growth.

Applicants based in Singapore with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.
When applying for this position please submit a cover letter with a brief description of how you meet the requirement for this role.

If this interests you, Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@adecco-asia.com to initiate the process.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.