Project Manager at ISM Africa

About the job

PROJECT MANAGER

The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing construction projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinating with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Understanding the capabilities of the team members
• Planning the project in advance and following clear and agreed milestones
• Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
• Submitting project deliverables and ensuring that they adhere to quality standards.
• Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.
• Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
• Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
• Management of project’s budget
• Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
• Identifying and developing new opportunities with clients.
• Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables.
• Managing customer satisfaction within the project transition period.
• Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• ERP project oversight.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or master's degree in a related field – advantage
• 5-10 years of project management experience in Kenya (other countries advantage)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus.
• Proven experience in project management.
• Ability to lead project teams of various sizes and see them through to completion.
• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies.
• Experience as a construction project manager, IT project manager, or ERP project manager.
• Able to complete projects in a timely manner.
• Understanding of ERP implementation.
• Experience overseeing a construction project.
• Budget management experience.