Contract Project Manager - 6 months

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its innovative SaaS platform, empowering telco operators worldwide to effortlessly launch innovative digital brands or refresh existing ones, accelerating their transformation into techcos. Today, Circles partners with leading telco operators across multiple countries and continents, including KDDI Corporation, Etisalat Group (e&), AT&T, and Telkomsel, creating blueprints for future telco and digital experiences enjoyed by millions of consumers globally. Besides its SaaS business, Circles operates three other distinct businesses: : A wholly-owned digital lifestyle telco brand based in Singapore, is powered by Circles ’ SaaS platform and pioneering go-to-market strategies. It is the digital market leader in Singapore and has won numerous awards for marketing, customer service, and innovative product offerings beyond connectivity. Circles Aspire : A global provider of Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) solutions. Its cloud-based Experience Cloud platform enables enterprises, service providers and developers to deliver and scale mobile, messaging, IoT, and connectivity services worldwide. Jetpac : Specializing in travel tech solutions, Jetpac provides seamless eSIM roaming for over 200 destinations and innovative travel lifestyle products, redefining connectivity for digital travelers. Jetpac was awarded Travel eSIM of the Year. Circles is backed by renowned global investors, including Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia), Warburg Pincus, Founders Fund, and EDBI (the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board), with a track record of backing industry challengers. Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its innovative SaaS platform, empowering telco operators worldwide to effortlessly launch innovative digital brands or refresh existing ones, accelerating their transformation into techcos. Today, Circles partners with leading telco operators across multiple countries and continents, including KDDI Corporation, Etisalat Group (e&), AT&T, and Telkomsel, creating blueprints for future telco and digital experiences enjoyed by millions of consumers globally. Besides its SaaS business, Circles operates three other distinct businesses: : A wholly-owned digital lifestyle telco brand based in Singapore, is powered by Circles ’ SaaS platform and pioneering go-to-market strategies. It is the digital market leader in Singapore and has won numerous awards for marketing, customer service, and innovative product offerings beyond connectivity. Circles Aspire : A global provider of Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) solutions. Its cloud-based Experience Cloud platform enables enterprises, service providers and developers to deliver and scale mobile, messaging, IoT, and connectivity services worldwide. Jetpac : Specializing in travel tech solutions, Jetpac provides seamless eSIM roaming for over 200 destinations and innovative travel lifestyle products, redefining connectivity for digital travelers. Jetpac was awarded Travel eSIM of the Year. Circles is backed by renowned global investors, including Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia), Warburg Pincus, Founders Fund, and EDBI (the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board), with a track record of backing industry challengers. Role Summary We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the planning, coordination and execution of a large-scale subscriber migration programme. The role will act as the central coordination point across technical, operational, commercial, customer and partner workstreams. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing programme governance, coordinating cross-workstream dependencies, maintaining visibility of risks and issues, and ensuring that key stakeholders remain aligned throughout migration readiness, execution and post-migration stabilisation. This is a project coordination and orchestration role . Individual workstream leads will retain accountability for delivery within their respective domains. The Project Manager will ensure that activities are appropriately sequenced, dependencies are identified and managed, decisions are surfaced promptly, and progress is transparently reported to the Client. Key Responsibilities 1. Pre-Migration Readiness Review and assess migration readiness plans developed by individual workstream leads. Identify gaps, risks, cross-workstream dependencies and areas requiring further alignment. Consolidate technical and operational workstream plans into an integrated and sequenced migration readiness view. Coordinate the activation and development of customer, marketing and partner communications readiness activities. Facilitate working-level meetings and workshops to drive alignment across workstreams. Track outstanding actions and ensure issues requiring management or Client decisions are clearly escalated. Establish and maintain programme governance. Support the Client in establishing a clear view of overall migration readiness ahead of the migration trigger. 2. Migration Execution Coordination Coordinate the sequencing and cadence of migration activities across technical, operational, customer, commercial and partner workstreams. Maintain an integrated view of migration progress against the agreed migration plan. Identify and proactively manage cross-workstream dependencies, risks, assumptions and issues. Maintain a continuously updated RAID log and ensure actions are routed to the appropriate accountable workstream lead. Facilitate regular cross-functional migration meetings and execution checkpoints. Monitor progress and highlight slippage, emerging risks and critical dependencies to the relevant workstream lead and Client SPOC. Coordinate inputs from workstream leads into consolidated programme reporting. Maintain visibility of key decisions, actions and outstanding matters throughout each migration tranche. Support the Client in maintaining alignment across stakeholders during migration execution. 3. Recipient Network Provider Liaison Act as the Client's external coordination liaison with the recipient network provider. Coordinate scheduling and information exchange between the Client and recipient network provider. Support alignment of migration execution windows, milestones and dependencies. Coordinate the flow of information required to support migration activities. Escalate unresolved matters to the Client and relevant workstream leads. Support, but do not independently undertake, commercial negotiations with the outgoing or recipient network provider. 4. Migration Tranche Management Coordinate the overall execution schedule and key checkpoints. Ensure relevant workstreams are aligned on activities, dependencies and timing. Track progress during the migration window and facilitate issue escalation where required. Consolidate workstream updates into a tranche-level migration summary. Record key decisions, execution outcomes, open issues and follow-up actions. Coordinate the transition from migration execution into the post-migration stabilisation period. 5. Post-Migration Stabilisation Coordinate information flow across workstreams during the stabilisation period. Consolidate workstream inputs into a closing status view. Track outstanding issues and actions through to the agreed closure point. Facilitate final coordination and reporting for each migration phase or tranche. Capture key decisions, lessons learned and outstanding follow-up matters for the Client Required Qualifications 7+ years of experience in programme management, project management, PMO or transformation delivery. Proven experience managing complex, multi-workstream programmes. Experience in telecommunications, network migration, customer migration, digital transformation or similarly complex operational programmes . Demonstrated experience coordinating technical and operational workstreams. Strong experience in programme governance, RAID management, status reporting and executive stakeholder management. Experience coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders, including third-party service providers or technology partners. Strong understanding of programme dependencies, critical paths, milestones and execution sequencing. Strong ability to identify issues early, drive follow-up actions and escalate matters appropriately. Circles is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, disability or age. Data Protection and Privacy Statement By submitting an application for this position, you, as the applicant, or your authorised representative(s), consent to Circles’ Candidate Data Protection and Privacy Policy. You also agree to the collection, use, and/or disclosure of your personal data by us solely for recruitment purposes as specified in the Policy. You acknowledge that you have read and understood the Policy, are aware of your rights regarding your personal data, and accept the terms relating to international data transfers, where applicable. You further understand that you may withdraw consent at any time, which may affect our ability to consider your application. In instances where your personal data or application is submitted by a third party, it is understood that such third party has been duly authorised by you to disclose the relevant personal data and provide consent on your behalf, and that you have been made aware of this Policy. To all recruitment agencies: Circles will only acknowledge resumes shared by recruitment agencies if selected in our preferred supplier partnership program. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Circles, employees or any other company location. Circles will not be held accountable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes not uploaded via our ATS. Circles is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, disability or age. Data Protection and Privacy Statement By submitting an application for this position, you, as the applicant, or your authorised representative(s), consent to Circles’ Candidate Data Protection and Privacy Policy . You also agree to the collection, use, and/or disclosure of your personal data by us solely for recruitment purposes as specified in the Policy. You acknowledge that you have read and understood the Policy, are aware of your rights regarding your personal data, and accept the terms relating to international data transfers, where applicable. You further understand that you may withdraw consent at any time, which may affect our ability to consider your application. In instances where your personal data or application is submitted by a third party, it is understood that such third party has been duly authorised by you to disclose the relevant personal data and provide consent on your behalf, and that you have been made aware of this Policy. To all recruitment agencies: Circles will only acknowledge resumes shared by recruitment agencies if selected in our preferred supplier partnership program. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Circles, employees or any other company location. Circles will not be held accountable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes not uploaded via our ATS.