Program Manager at Safaricom

Job description

Department Description

Reporting to the Senior Manager PMO, the position holder will coordinate and manage the delivery of Complex Information, Communications and Technology solutions for Safaricom projects. This role will be responsible for kick off, execution, implementation and closure of Sprints, Projects and Programs.

Job Responsibilities

• Prior experience in a hands-on software or system development role
• Direct experience managing both agile and waterfall programs; able to tailor programmatic processes to the needs of a project
• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
• Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks and change control
• Ability to apply critical thinking in complex situations; experience working in cross functional groups including Digital IT/engineering, Networking, and infrastructure teams.
• Inquisitive with technical and business skills to understand, test, and challenge while working harmoniously with the business and technology owners
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to translate business questions into verifiable hypotheses using complex, multi-source data
• Demonstrate great judgment in quickly forming actionable, data-driven conclusions in the face of uncertainty
• A strong track record of executing in dynamic and fast-paced environments.
• Lead cross-functional development on new technology from design through delivery
• Cross-organizational communication – comfortable evangelizing ideas and concerns clearly and persuasively, in both verbal and written forms

Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree with a technical discipline or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in technical program/project management in a consumer electronics environment
• Experience defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule and deploy new features sets.
• Experience analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection
• Demonstrable experience in project management
• Certification in project management e.g. PRINCE 2/ PMP/SCRUM.