Deployment Project Manager

About Davidson

Joining Davidson not only means joining a group of 3,000 consultants in 6 countries and 2 continents, but also joining a company that has been voted a Great Place To Work France and Europe by its employees for no less than 4 years, as well as one of the largest B Corps in France, named Best in the World in the "employees" category in 2022!

Because our development is based on strong principles:

• Deep respect for all our stakeholders: consultants, customers and suppliers.
• Equal opportunities in the processing of our applications and in the career management of our employees. We believe in a workplace where gender equality, inclusion and diversity are the norm.
• A minimal environmental impact and a maximum societal impact. That's why, beyond the work you'll be carrying out, you'll also be able to contribute to projects that Davidson supports: international solidarity work (with Planète Urgence), volunteering with charities (each Davidsonian has 3 days a year to work with them), supporting students from underprivileged backgrounds (with Article 1), investing in startups developing innovative solutions, collective and individual actions to reduce our carbon footprint, etc.
• Adhocratic management based on the implementation of the principles of "horizontal company" and "tribal management".

We encourage applications from people with disabilities, and we are committed to meeting their specific needs in the best possible way.

Mission / Profile

As a deployment project manager for all the major network deployment projects which Davidson handles for its customers (operators, equipment suppliers and prime contractors), you'll be working as a project manger on varied equipment: 4G/5G radio, transmission lines, network backbones.

To fully ensure the success of your project, you will have a wide scope of activities:

• Analysing needs
• Choosing scenarios in order to select the solution that offers the best technical/financial compromise
• Assessing and approving quotes
• Complying with regulations, working in close partnership with security managers
• Scheduling activities and maintaining reliability in the overall schedule
• Monitoring subcontractors and coordinating internal teams
• Holding follow-up meetings
• Producing reports for management
• Managing risks and organising the action plan that will minimise them
• Financial monitoring
• Communicating with all stakeholders to ensure projects run smoothly
• Leveraging the experience gained and lessons learned

Skills (pre-existing or to be acquired)

• Project management
• Excellent interpersonal skills and good written and verbal communication
• Strong ability to organise and streamline processes
• Excel and VBA
• English language

Talents/soft skills

• Team player
• Copes well with stress
• Proactive
• Thorough

Description of the segment's business

Telecommunications industry

Telecommunications are a key part of Davidson's history. From equipment suppliers to operators and users, since the company's inception we've been working with those who devise, roll out and run fixed and mobile communications networks all around the globe. Founded during the 3G period, Davidson saw the first rollouts of 4G/LTE, convergence via IMS, the emergence of the Internet of Things, the popularisation of fibre optics, the introduction of SDNs, etc.

Davidson is now one of the leading telecoms consulting providers in France and Europe, supported by its experts and project managers drawing on a wealth of internal resources: a training institute (5G, IoT, PMP, FTTx, virtualisation, etc.), rooms dedicated to ideation and meetups (Singular), an R&D department (leading multiple partnerships and financing arrangements, including INRIA, Telecom SudParis, ESEO/ENSTA Bretagne and Eurecom) and a unit for monitoring normalization/standardization (responsible for the publication of "5G networks", éditions Eyrolles).

This enables us to work on assessment assignments and project management in technical assistance, service centres and packages with an outcome obligation.

Examples of assignments:

• Supporting customers with IoT & 5G trials
• Technical due diligence
• Auditing and organizing a deployment programme
• Radio/core/service platform bid management
• Protocol architecture
• Network equipment and smartphone validation
• Network sizing
• Steering of HW/SW deployment projects
• Detailed engineering and configuration
• Radio QoS, IP QoS, QoE, application metro-logy
• The next project we'll be working on together...