Customer Project Manager – 1437824 Position Available In Durham, North Carolina

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Team:

The Observability Team operates as a unified structure where Project Managers, Consultants, and Solution Architects collaborate seamlessly, ensuring alignment and shared goals. We provide a consistent delivery experience, leveraging our deep observability expertise to drive business success. Our training enables seamless implementations and measurable outcomes for customers. With governance closely integrated with the Technical team, decision-making is enhanced, issue resolution is accelerated, and projects are executed with both strategic oversight and technical depth.

Your Impact:

• Customer Project Specialists providing support services scenario
• Conducts project support activities either within a project or program environment or within a project support services team
• Customer Project Specialist leading small projects scenario (e.g. joins Cisco via Associate Project Manager program):
• Lead projects to achieve on-time, within budget, high- quality delivery while achieving customer satisfaction
• Responsible for project metric tracking, and managing project financials and profitability
• Identify risk, issues and develop risk response strategy
• Lead or support execution of contract Change Management process
• Manage Partner delivery and commercials when 3rd party technical delivery resources are engaged
• Conduct project support activities
• Build Cisco’s project community by sharing lessons learned,
• Best practices and participating in the

PMO Role Community Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS or 4+ years of proven experience in project management
• PMP certification (Project Management Professional)
• Strong technical expertise in observability solutions, including AppDynamics, Thousand Eyes, and Splunk.
• At least two years of hands-on experience managing complex technical projects. Project management skills, including the ability to provide strategic guidance and drive successful multi-tools implementation.
• Experience with SLED and Federal Observability projects, requiring additional regulatory and compliance knowledge.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SCM certification (Certified Scrum Master)
• Specialized training and certifications in AppDynamics, Thousand Eyes, and Splunk.

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