Project Manager - Mvno & E at CDL Human Resource

Telkom Kenya is recruiting for a Project Manager to be based at our Nairobi Office. 

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Preferred Engagement Date: December2018

Weekly Commitment: 3 times a week

Responsibilities:

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Implements the MVNO & E solutions through the full project lifecycle to handover to operational service and closure.
• Management of the delivery schedule and budget to deliver to ensure project delivery is on time and in budget
• Rigorously manages third party deliverables, risks and dependencies to ensure responsibilities and project commitments are met.
• Builds and manages the relationship with key stakeholders
• Defines the roles and responsibilities of the project team, forecasts and establishes the project team and ensures that each team member understands the task that is to be undertaken.
• Leads and manages project and resource schedules assigning and tracking tasks planned for the project team
• Identifies, manages and mitigates the risks that may impact the project
• Complete project weekly status reports and steering committee presentations
• Communicates project activities including progress, budget, risks, issues to both client and internal stake holders
• Ensures all project deliverables complies with company processes, quality and standards.
• Positive relationship management with client and key stakeholders
• Commercial awareness and excellent negotiation skills

Skills, know-how and experience:

• Experience of project managing complex technical Telco systems
• Strong MS Office skills including Microsoft project.
• Project Planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills with clearly demonstrated methodologies to keep project teams and stakeholders well informed.
• Excellent Organizational, stakeholder management and time management skills.
• Fluency in oral and written English.
• Demonstrated experience in managing projects leveraging a variety of project management methodologies.
• Experience developing and maintaining a project plan and proactively leading cross-functional project teams.
• Strong commercial awareness and financial management skills.

Preferred:

• Formalized project management training
• PMP & PMI certification
• Any experience in the following areas is a plus:
  • Business Process analysis/modelling
  • Mobile Telecoms/MVNO environment