When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing

In this role as a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing and overseeing the Macro New Build Program, from project initiation through Real Estate Complete (REC) in the Northern CA/NV market. You will coordinate internal team members and external vendors to ensure milestone delivery. You will measure project/vendor performance using Verizon tools, dashboards and trackers. You will be asked to track and report forecasts regularly to ensure the completion of short and long-term goals, while identifying risks to management. You will attend and host meetings amongst various cross functional teams to ensure each are driving to their respective deliverables. You will be responsible for presenting program progress, including progress of high priority projects, to leadership in a clear and effective fashion. The successful candidate will build and foster relationships with internal teams and peers, compile and interpret data to support leadership and organization decision making, providing guidance and support to market teams, providing KPIs for dashboarding and ensuring regular cadence of updates and accuracy, take initiative in presenting areas for process improvement to management and support the implementation of process improvements.

Typical tasks include, but aren’t limited to:

• Vendor Management

  • Releasing monthly vendor scorecards

  • Interpreting monthly scorecards to drive progress

  • Assist with vendor assignments and reviewing external vendor loads regularly

• Preparing Presentations and Conducting Read-Outs to management on status of

  • Plan of Record (POR)

  • Super Bowl

  • State ROOT

• Communicating program/process updates to internal team and external vendors

• Take action on major milestones from a high-level perspective (e.g., send out pending reviews to RF/RE/CX)

• Attend regular calls with utility providers (PGE, SCE)

• Hosting regular stakeholder meetings to help drive KPI goals, track progress, and remove obstacles

  • Leading monthly calls for the Real Estate team to review lease rent commencements to ensure compliance.

  • Leading weekly Utility/power call

• Support with gathering and compiling finance data for management review

• Complete CPUC submissions

• Maintain Power Contract inbox

• Reviewing and approving Real Estate Complete (REC) Memos for release

What we’re looking for…

You are well versed in telecommunications, have knowledge of the site acquisition process, enjoy problem solving and are data-driven. You are a team player and can work collaboratively across internal teams (including Construction and RF). You are excellent with tapping into a variety of resources and tools to solve problems. Organization, prioritization and reporting are your strong suit. You are inquisitive, take initiative, offer recommendations for leadership consideration, and understand site-specific issues on an as-needed basis, while understanding any larger impacting factors- meaning, you have the ability to see the bigger picture.

Where you'll be working…

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or at least three years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Willingness to travel.

Even better if you have:

• Bachelor's Degree.

• Experience in using FUZE (including SPM, Real Estate Module, PO Module), Unefi and Qlik.

• Well-versed in Excel and creating visual charts/diagrams.

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Proven track record of meeting tight deadlines.

• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and manage multiple competing priorities.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefits, short term incentives, 401(k) Savings Plan, stock incentive programs, paid time off, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

If you are hired into a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Washington or Washington, D.C. work location, the compensation range for this position is between $73,000.00 and $135,000.00 based on a full-time schedule. The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely. We power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what matters most. If that inspires you, start the next chapter of your career here.