Sr. Project Manager, Development - Overland Park, KS

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This role provides senior-level project and portfolio management support across site development and hard cost delivery activities within Field Technology Operations in Overland Park, Kansas. This Sr. Project Manager, Development serves as a key operational lead and first point of escalation for development-related activities, supporting leasing, zoning, permitting, regulatory compliance, construction coordination, vendor performance, project forecasting, and schedule adherence for new and modified telecommunications sites.
The role partners closely with RF, Operations, Construction, Real Estate, vendors, and market leadership to drive consistency, remove roadblocks, manage risk, and ensure timely and quality delivery of development and construction initiatives. While the position may directly manage assigned projects, its primary focus is broader portfolio oversight, operational rigor, reporting accuracy, issue resolution, and coordination of hard cost programs across multiple workstreams.
Success in this role requires a seasoned, self-directed professional who can quickly assess priorities, anticipate challenges, guide cross-functional partners, and elevate critical issues when appropriate. The position supports organizational goals by helping ensure development checkpoints, budget expectations, vendor deliverables, compliance requirements, and construction quality standards are met in support of network performance, customer experience, and market execution.

Base Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and support planning, coordination, and execution of site development and hard cost activities across assigned market portfolio, including leasing, zoning, permitting, regulatory compliance, construction coordination, and site modification work.
• Coordinate with RF, Operations, Construction, Real Estate, vendors, and other partners to align priorities, optimize resources, remove obstacles, and support successful delivery of development and construction programs.
• Monitor project and portfolio progress against key checkpoints, schedules, forecasts, budgets, and deliverables; track and communicate status — including schedule updates, phase gate progression, risk, budget impacts, vendor performance, and forecast accuracy — to partners and project sponsors to help ensure timely, accurate, and quality execution of development initiatives.
• Identify process gaps, project risks, reporting inconsistencies, and execution challenges; recommend solutions and help implement improvements that drive consistency, accountability, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure development activities are completed in accordance with regulatory requirements, company standards, construction quality expectations, and applicable operational guidelines.
• Serve as the first point of contact for development-related questions, risks, roadblocks, and critical issues from internal teams, vendors, and cross-functional partners, resolving issues where appropriate and calling out critical matters to management when needed; provide guidance and informal leadership to project teams to support issue resolution, process compliance, and successful project delivery.
• Also responsible for other duties, programs, and projects as assigned by business management as needed.

Specific Job Responsibilities

• Lead recurring vendor and internal deployment calls to review portfolio status, align on priorities, track checkpoint progress, identify blockers, confirm ownership of action items, and drive timely resolution of development, construction, and hard cost delivery issues.
• Support management of vendor activities and deliverables to ensure adherence to scope, timelines, quality expectations, construction standards, and contractual requirements.
• Assist with development of portfolio reporting, executive updates, management plans, process documentation, deliverable schedules, and other tools used to support team performance and business objectives.
• Manage assigned projects or special initiatives as needed, while maintaining broader visibility and support across the full development and hard cost portfolio.

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree plus 3 years of related work experience
  OR advanced degree with 1 year of related work experience
  OR combination of education and experience deemed equivalent (Required)
• 5+ yrs experience in project management in a complex environment, preferably wireless. (Preferred)
• Experience developing and delivering presentations to groups. (Preferred)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Site Development, Construction Coordination, and Hard Cost Delivery — Required
  Strong knowledge of wireless site development and construction execution activities, including leasing, zoning, permitting, regulatory compliance, site modifications, construction coordination, capital project delivery, and hard cost management. Ability to understand how construction checkpoints, cost drivers, dependencies, and field execution risks impact overall market delivery.
• Construction Documentation and A&E Coordination — Required
  Experience collaborating with Architecture & Engineering teams, construction vendors, and internal partners to review construction drawings, redline documentation, validate approved changes, and ensure final construction documents accurately reflect project scope, field conditions, and delivery requirements.
• Budgeting, Procurement, and Hard Cost Management — Required
  Experience supporting project budgets, purchase order processing, cost tracking, accrual awareness, invoice support, procurement workflows, change impacts, and hard cost management. Ability to identify budget risks, cost variances, and funding impacts that may affect development or construction execution.
• Portfolio, Program, and Project Management — Required
  Demonstrated ability to manage an active portfolio of projects and programs from kick-off through deployment, with emphasis on development and construction delivery. Must be able to track multiple concurrent workstreams, understand key development and construction phase gates, manage competing priorities, and maintain visibility across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and partner alignment.
• Project Progress Reporting, Forecasting, and Schedule Management — Required
  Ability to build, maintain, and communicate accurate project and portfolio reporting, including checkpoint progression, construction readiness, schedule updates, forecast accuracy, risk items, budget impacts, vendor performance, and action item status. Experience developing and driving schedule execution, baseline timelines, checkpoint deliverables, and recovery plans.
• Risk Management, Issue Resolution, and Escalation — Required
  Ability to proactively identify project, portfolio, vendor, budget, schedule, compliance, permitting, construction, and field execution risks. Must be able to assess impact, recommend solutions, drive resolution where appropriate, and call out critical issues to management with clear facts, options, and recommended next steps.
• Leadership, Resource Management, and Informal Influence — Required
  Strong ability to provide guidance, direction, and informal leadership to vendors, peers, and cross-functional partners. Must be comfortable acting as a first point of contact for questions, blockers, and critical issues while coordinating internal and external resources across multiple projects or programs.
• Partner Communication, Negotiation, and Alignment — Required
  Strong professional presentation skills, including the ability to lead internal and vendor deployment calls, deliver clear status updates, communicate risks and decisions, document action items, and collaborate effectively across a distributed team. Ability to support negotiations and issue resolution with property owners, landlords, municipalities, vendors, and internal partners on matters related to lease terms, rights-of-way, permitting, site access, deliverables, and project execution.
• Construction Vendor Management and Field Execution Accountability — Preferred
  Ability to manage construction-related vendor deliverables, monitor performance, lead vendor discussions, drive accountability, resolve blockers, and ensure work is completed in accordance with scope, timelines, quality expectations, safety expectations, construction standards, and contractual requirements.
• Process Discipline and Continuous Improvement — Preferred
  Ability to identify process gaps, reporting inconsistencies, recurring blockers, and execution challenges across development and construction workstreams. Must be able to recommend and help implement process improvements that drive consistency, accountability, operational efficiency, and portfolio execution.
• Microsoft Office and Business Tools — Preferred
  Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat. Candidates should be comfortable building leadership-ready presentations, handling project documentation, maintaining trackers, and organizing complex information for decision-making. Familiarity with AI productivity tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar platforms is a plus.
• Project Management Systems — Preferred
  Experience using Microsoft Project or similar project management tools. Candidates will be expected to work within Magenta Built or other internal project management platforms to build and maintain project timelines, track checkpoint deliverables, manage project data, and support active portfolio reporting.

Licenses and Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) (Preferred)

Additional:

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:

• Travel Required (Yes/No): Yes

DOT Regulated:

• DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No
• Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No

***This base pay range is the National Base Pay Range for this role - please click on the link in the 2nd paragraph below to find the range for the location(s) listed.***

Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity: $110,860 - $199,985

National Base Pay Range: $96,400 - $173,900

The Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity represents the expected total cash compensation for this role at target performance, combining base salary and annual incentive opportunity. Actual earnings may be higher or lower depending on individual performance and overall company results. 

The base pay range reflects the compensation component of this opportunity. The candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, https://paylookup.t-mobile.com/paylookup?reqID=REQ367196¶dox=1

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