Senior Project Manager, Advocacy - Regions

at  GSMA

As Senior Project Manager you are responsible for representing your project, interpreting internal or external business issues and recommending solutions and best practices. You plan projects and lead on large projects or cross-functional projects, or signficant elements of programmes. You manage teams of individuals and have interactions with senior stakeholders.
Department: Advocacy Portfolio Management
Team: Advocacy
Location: London with hybrid working
Position type: Permanent
What the hiring manager says
“Join a team of engaged and motivated colleagues who provide critical project management expertise to the broader GSMA Advocacy department. We ensure their ability to effectively engage with governments and regulators around the world and deliver results that advance the interests of the mobile industry.
The GSMA’s Advocacy campaigns are typically embedded within multi-year plans, presenting unique portfolio management challenges that require a forward-looking vision and excellent delivery planning. Our top priority is to achieve enabling policy and regulatory environments that allow people, industry and society thrive. The team governs, manages, and reports on progress to all levels of stakeholders.”
Sonja Newey, Portfolio Director
About the Role
The Senior Project Manager - Regions is responsible for overseeing and managing regional projects from inception to completion. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills and a proven track record in project management. The Senior Project Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, to scope, and within budget. They will ensure that project and regional objectives and are aligned to member priorities. They will effectively resource plan and proactively communicate cross functional asks and developments which touch on all areas of the GSMA to ensure alignment of goals and effective communication channels. They will capture and report on impact.
About You

The ideal candidate will display the following qualities:

• Proven delivery of global virtual team project management, driving results and meeting objectives and can demonstrate high-level project achievements
• Applied knowledge of project management methodologies, such as APM, Agile and Prince2
• Solid understanding of managing impact based global projects and resources
• Conducts effective stakeholder and communication management techniques, conveying information to a variety of multi-level stakeholders
• Able to absorb detailed information and communicate effectively at all levels to both expert and non-expert audiences
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to build effective business relationships
• Can develop and manage portfolio plans and develop high-quality documentation including PowerPoint slides
• Awareness of advocacy policies for the mobile industry
• Operational experience with Asana is preferred
• Global travel is expected

Contract type
Regular
Worker type
Employee
What We Offer
Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
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Being You at the GSMA
We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We’re keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
Stronger together
We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.

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