Description
I am currently looking for an experienced Senior Telecoms Project Manager to work on a 6 month extendable contract for a market leading client of mine in Southern Africa.All applicants must have a proven backround focused on managing mutliple projects simultaenously and able to coach/advise other Project Managers.
Experience of contract project management in Africa working with Ericsson, NSN, Huawei or ZTE is preferred.
Job Responsibilities:
Preparing, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing the project or subproject according to contractual scope and commitment against project budget.
Overall responsibility of implementation of services in delivery scope and final acceptance.
Monitor scope, implement change control process and handle change management, ensure customer acceptance for the system or service.
Planning, booking and managing resources within the project organize and lead the project team.
Setting up and maintaining clear and effective internal and external communication within the customer and project teams.
Identify, analyze risks, plan and implement risk response actions.
Project Planning:
• Preparing, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing the project or subproject (region, zone, and phase) according to contractual scope and commitment against project budget.
• Identify scope, work breakdown and deliverables for the proposed delivery project
• Estimating PM effort, and reviewing estimates provided by engineering
• Secures resources for the project (sales gate criteria)
• Prepare offer baseline of project management plan-PMP, budget and schedule
• Works actively on partner management during the proposal phase (for eg. quality audit), briefing to the partners/subcontractor with respect to expectations of proposal delivery, steering the proposal process, review additional proposal elements.
• Ensures implementation of contract management.
• Plans the strategy for customer relationship, communication and information transfer for the project.
Project Execution:
• Supports development of strategies to continue and/or strengthens the business with the customer in order to meet customer expectations and delivering a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Prepares delivery baseline of PMP, budget and schedule agreed with customer and CT
• Signs off resourcing proposal by resource management, and signs contract and back to back agreement with Subcontractors/partners and develops solutions strategy if required with subcontractor/partners.
• Estimates the influences and risks of involved subcontractors/partners and evaluates their financial implications.
• Evaluates and processes change management and non quality cost management presenting to the CT until final agreement and closure of request including non quality query;
• Ensures financials are correctly updated in systems at all times.
• Knows risks of the project, collects and documents the relevant data.
Project control and communication:
• Create basic conditions in order to improve the teamwork within the project, permitting the clear definition of: the project, communications concept, decision and escalation rules.
• Evaluate the project goals and the team work
• Guide the project team and their meetings.
• Execute timely notice decisions.
• Establish the relationship between the project members.
• Drives the project in order to recognizes discrepancies and to deal with it timely..
• Ensures and enables the establishment of contact for the project and knowledge management.
Project Closing -
• At the end of every project, provides individual feedback to employees ( together with the line manager) on topics like performance, engagement and recommends future development plan.
• Reflects actions, opinions and feedbacks of customers
• Creates lessons learned documentation
Networks:
Customer organisation, Customer Team, Program Manager (if applicable), Project Team, Line Management, BL Region/sub-Region management, Legal department, F&C, logistics, Suppliers, Partners, Contractors , Care Mgr, Operations Manager, MS Manager