Telco Project Manager (EMEA)
Company Overview
Holafly is a high-growth scale-up revolutionising how businesses and travellers connect to the internet abroad. Since 2018, we’ve empowered travellers in over 200 destinations worldwide with secure and reliable eSIM solutions. With a team of 600+ professionals across multiple countries, we are scaling globally to support travellers with seamless, unlimited data connectivity. We’re not just connecting people—we’re enabling freedom and peace of mind, ensuring our users stay connected from the second they land, wherever their journey takes them.
The Role
In this role, you will lead, plan, and manage resources, estimates, costs, and deliverables for all telecommunications projects, serving as the primary point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, you will oversee the integration of new players into the company’s expanding ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
The role involves developing comprehensive project plans, defining project scope, RACI Matrix, deliverables, and creating detailed work breakdown structures.
Build and keep the project documentation to provide a clear understanding of the scope, stakeholder identification, goals and deliverables for every project.
Ensure project transparency by facilitating team communication, conducting routing syncs, and providing executive briefings.
Proactively manage information flow between departments via regular meetings and tailored updates for stakeholders and executives.
Monitor project progress to proactively identify potential roadblocks, resource constraints and risks. Lead troubleshooting efforts, facilitate solutioning sessions and own the outcome to keep projects on track.
Take ownership of the project lifecycle by relentlessly chasing deliverables, ensuring accountability, and validating the completion of all project analysis and milestones to guarantee successful and timely outcomes.
Ensuring the comprehensive delivery of project milestones by managing cross-departmental workflows and overseeing rigorous technical and operational analysis. .
Managing the end-to-end delivery of projects with a heavy technical emphasis on telecom network architecture and feature deployment. .
Managing the technical delivery of telecom initiatives, serving as the primary liaison between IT and Product departments to streamline systems integration and core network functionality.
Strongly interact with the Technology departments so the Carrier department is well provided by the available technologies.
Strongly interact with the Technology departments so the Carrier department initiatives are well integrated in the company business to provide the most value.
Technical & Professional Skills
Professional Background: 8+ years of experience in Telco Project Manager with a proven track of complex projects sometimes managing from scratch.
Communication skills:
- Technical Translation: Expert at bridging the gap by translating complex network requirements into clear business value for non-technical executives.
- Stakeholder Influence: Strong negotiation skills to align conflicting priorities between Engineering, Product, and external partners.Project Management Skills:
- Methodology: Expertise in full-lifecycle Project Management, with proficiency in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies, underpinned by PMI/PRINCE2 frameworks and Lean Six Sigma principles.
- Advanced Project Scheduling (Gantt & Roadmapping): Expertise in developing complex, multi-phase Gantt charts to visualize critical paths and dependencies in network deployments. This includes the ability to manage lead times for hardware procurement and orchestrate technical milestones across concurrent workstreams.
- Project Performance Analytics (Tracking & Reporting): Proficiency in generating data-driven Project Tracking Reports utilizing KPIs like Schedule Variance (SV) and Task Completion Rates. Skilled in providing stakeholders with high-level visibility into project health through automated dashboards and executive summaries.Strategic Risk Mitigation & Contingency Planning: Advanced capability in Risk Management, including the identification, quantification, and prioritization of technical and operational risks. Proven track record of developing robust mitigation strategies for common telco hurdles, such as regulatory delays or vendor supply chain disruptions.
Financial Oversight & Cost Engineering: Strong command of Project Cost Management, encompassing budget estimation (CAPEX/OPEX), resource allocation, and burn-rate monitoring. Skilled in maintaining financial integrity by aligning project expenditures with corporate fiscal targets and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
Qualifications
Fluency in English to collaborate across our global hubs (Spanish would be an asset).
Expertise in Wrike, Google Workspace and Jira/Confluence for process documentation and tracking.
Strong analytical mindset with a focus on business risk management and detail gathering.
Bonus Points
Experience in B2B Carrier Operations or provider-side contract management.
University degree in, Telecommunication Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Business Analytics, Business Administrator, Information Systems.
Prince, PMP Certifications.
ITIL V4
Benefits & Perks
100% Remote-first culture with a flexible schedule to support your work-life harmony.
Opportunity to lead and choose the technologies you use to drive organizational improvement.
A blameless environment that prioritizes ownership, braveness, and continuous learning.
High-impact role in a hyper-growth scale-up with a diverse, multicultural team.
- Department
- Carriers
- Locations
- Europe, Dublin, United Kingdom
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment level
- Professionals
About Holafly
During a trip to Thailand, Pedro and Lidia, the founders of Holafly, experienced the frustration of not having an internet connection.
Inspired by their own experiences, they came up with a simple but brilliant idea: why not allow travellers to buy data plans for any destination from their home country?
Our passion for providing easy and convenient connectivity to travellers around the world drives everything we do.
We love our work and we do it with pride. Stay connected wherever you go.