Role Purpose:
To ensure that the projects are in line with the overall company strategy in order to drive the project management culture and discipline across the organization.
Your responsibilities will include:
Demand Management & Prioritization
Develop, define and implement the overall projects demand management structure & prioritization processes
To ensure project requests/demand prioritizations are carried out in line with organization’s strategic goals and based on defined parameters
To initiate, participate and contribute (at a high level) to any ongoing business activity which will impact the projects demand pipeline.
Build an overall demand pipeline on an annual basis as well as in an ongoing basis (mapped against annual plan).
Manage list of project demand pipeline on an annual basis as well as in an ongoing basis
Maintain catalogue of all projects planned and ongoing across the business and categorize project requests based on categories of Promotion, Enhancements and Key projects
Operations
Partner with business leaders at all levels to identify short and long-term divisional and enterprise wide projects to be undertaken to support execution of the Safaricom 3year strategy.
Secure senior leadership sponsorship of programs and approval of objectives.
Rollout global project management framework
Develop and maintain a project and enhancement roadmap aligned with business priority, delivery capacity, technical dependencies and ongoing project portfolio.
Promoting project management within the organization
Undertake post-launch reviews (G4) of key projects
Resolve issues and conflicts related to the interdependency of projects
Develop and Manage the capital projects investment process
Develop and monitor divisional and enterprise wide project budgets.
Create and rollout standardized project management templates to be used across the business
Ensure processes are in line with other company processes and procedures
All processes and procedures of the departmental to ensure proper service delivery and alignment to ISO processes.
Coordinate the development of SLA between business units and other support functions i.e. Risk, HR, Supply Chain and Technical & IT.
Increase employee engagement index for the PMO office team in line with set targets
Resource management
Provide mentorship and coaching to Project Managers that oversee all project delivery efforts within the organization
In liaison with Resources develop competencies of personnel, including training and mentoring for project managers.
Lead and manage the projects office team, ensuring they have clear priorities and direction and remain motivated by providing effective management and coaching
Ensure project teams develop and maintain resource pool and skill inventory
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
A Bachelor’s degree
Project Management certification Prince II or PMP and / or Six Sigma Yellow or Green Belt.
Have 10 years work experience in the Telecom/ICT space of FMCG; 5 of which must be in senior Management
Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management and information technology
Minimum 5 years leadership experience in a cross-functional or matrix organization.
Requires strong experience in business and solution development, project/program management, and project delivery in a technology space.
Experience developing complex, multi-year project plans to meet business objectives within budget
Very Strong understanding of the system development life cycle
Very Strong understanding of the project management and testing life cycle
Ability to interact effectively with various levels within the organization
Proven experience in risk management and change management
Proficient in project management software
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to effectively communicate and present to all levels of the organization including EXCO
Solid understanding of project management methodology to identify and communicate issues, risks and dependencies across a large-scale program
Experience using automated project management governance tools
Closing date for Applications: 06 August 2021
The base location for this role is,Kenya/South Africa
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.
