Role Purpose:
He/ She will provide leadership to a team of project managers charged with the end-to-end delivery of Enterprise solutions.
Oversee the conceptualization, planning, development and implementation of assigned Enterprise client’s projects. He/ She will be the project management champion in the projects team, providing coaching and mentorship to the team as a senior projects expert.
He/ She will also understand Telkom Kenya’s key customers’ build plans, manage material flow, and manage quality delivery of customer expectations from ICT projects.
Senior Project Manager Job Responsibilities
- The person will be the project management champion in the projects team, providing coaching and mentorship to the other team members as a senior projects expert.
- Carry out project planning for assigned projects with a clearly documented plan involving all relevant stakeholders.
- Carry out E2E project management for assigned customer projects as per project plan.
- Implement and ensure adherence to project methodology and processes as adopted by Telkom Kenya in the management and execution of customer projects.
- Manage the relationships with the customers during the implementations phase, until hand-over phase.
- Ensure high standards in the quality of project management within the organization and continuous improvement on project processes.
- Identify project risks and/or issues and implement necessary action plans to manage them so as to avoid potential delays and scope creep.
- Follow up on the delivered products and solutions on an agreed regular basis with the customer to keep informed about the life cycle of the implemented customer solution.
- Manage the project budget, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realised milestones as the project progresses.
- Facilitate the appointment of individuals to the specific projects tasks for specific project results delivery
- Ensure project closure through a clear sign-off, billing initiation and handover to the post implementation teams.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager Job
- A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Telecommunications. PMP/ Prince 2
- Certification in project management is a requirement.
- 5 years’ minimum work experience in a project management environment with a track record in delivering ICT solutions within schedule, budget and quality.
Professional Skills:
- Displays a bias for decisiveness by meeting the most aggressive timelines for delivering high quality proposals
- Showing concerns for all aspects of the job, no matter how small. Checking processes and tasks accurately.
- Be able to own the whole project management process and be comfortable holding people to account.
- Be a natural communicator with excellent written and oral presentation skills.
- Makes active attempts to influence events to achieve goals: self-starting rather than acting passively.
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