IT Program / Delivery Manager at Tezza Business Solutions Limited

Tezza Business Solutions Limited is a leading Software Quality Assurance and Testing multinational with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria. We are a Software Quality Assurance and Testing Services provider. Our primary goal is to be the "go to" Quality Assurance & Software Testing company in East and West Africa while developing offshore resources to fill test automation positions (and other hard to find software testing capabilities) in the North America and European markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Program / Delivery Manager

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• A Program / Delivery manager is in charge of ensuring that services are delivered to the clients of a business in an efficient manner.
• They are in charge of a number of activities, including project team leadership, quality issues resolution, progress monitoring, tracking KPIs, and managing budgets.
• A Program/Delivery manager plays a vital role in boosting the user experience by ensuring the smooth delivery of top-notch services that meet and exceed customer demands.

Duties, Responsibilities & Key Performance Indicators

• Ensure engagement at least 3 times a week with the client’s Project Management office.
• Track the current capacity strength of the TAAS team and measure them against all Q1 and Q2 activity to determine if to increase the resource capacity.
• The DM is responsible for driving change request initiatives.
• Track overall output of the testing team in alignment to the KPIs agreed upon by the client.
• Work with HR Business Partner to ensure that all resources are at their designated workstation during work hours.
• Manage change request orders from end to end.
• Communicate resource needs to Tezza HR.
• Process optimization.
• Monitor resource allocation to spot gaps and track output with KPIs.
• Monitor relationship with the PMO and sensitize them to keep to the outlined Work In-Take Process.
• Ensure PMO adheres to proper escalation pathway.
• Monitor resource allocation tool and pipeline.
• Serve new intakes a testing policy to agree to and sign off.
• Maintain governance and documentation repository for IPs.
• Track 90-day game plan gap analysis and optimize reports for daily, weekly and monthly reports.

Stakeholder Communication:

• Ensure weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual communication to the board and the client’s executives.
• Prepare and publish bi-weekly report trends to management.
• Plan, prepare and carry out presentations, seminars and sensitization sessions to drive stakeholder adoption.

Relationship & Human Resource Management:

• Oversee human resources, including hiring, performance evaluation, training, and mentoring of resources.
• Fostering deep relationships with horizontal and vertical team (and stakeholders) to promote efficient departmental communication.

Service Management:

• The Delivery Manager should ensure that he monitors and aligns all operational processes of the domains under him to the clients SLA.
• He ensures that all processes be reviewed, optimized and standardized by all key stakeholders.
• Developing a thorough grasp of projects in order to acquire insight into the extent of service delivery.
• Assuming responsibility for critical incidents, working with relevant stakeholders to resolve issues, and ensuring effective communication among them for post-incident monitoring.
• Analyzing internal and external procedures, and developing plans for optimizing service delivery Business

Transformation:

• The Delivery Manager works with the TaaS Manager the drive strategy across the following pillars to enable business transformation.
• People: partaking in the interview process using domain knowledge of the client and professional requirements of the job to assess potential resources.
• Process: drive adoption and optimization of all processes for project execution across all domains under him.
• Platform: Drive automation using various tools after critical research of the clients needs while opening new opportunities for Tezza.

Reporting:

• The DM should be able to oversee, coordinate and communicate the following reports to the client on a periodic basis.
• Trend Report
• Forecasting Report
• Weekly Report
• Insight Report
• Monthly Report
• Quarterly Report
• Risk Report
• Half-year and Annual Report

Academic & Professional Requirements

• B.Sc / BA in Business Administration, Business Analysis, Project Management, Delivery Management or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of senior -level leadership, capacity building and management
• Strong Project and people manager skills with a proven track record
• Expert level written and verbal communications skills.
• Exceptional relationship management and networking skills
• Certification in ITIL 4 is a plus.
• Impressive and practical understanding of risk management
• Solid resource planning and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work, management, assign and allocate resources.
• Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills.
• Ability to track tasks to completion.
• Capacity to train and guide junior team members
• Ability to manage and prioritize tasks efficiently
• Readiness to demonstrate a proactive attitude
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of Software Testing and the technology space end to end is an advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.