Kimberly Ryan Limited - Our client, a leading company in the Information & Technology space is currently recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Lead Project Operations
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Summary
- Project management responsibilities include the coordination and completion of projects on time within budget and within scope.
- Oversee all aspects of projects within wider programme plans for the organization.
- Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of project. Prepare reports for executive management on project status.
- Lead the project teams through compliance of the Project Life Cycle. This includes helping to define scope, design, architectural vision, feature definition and usability.
- Drive teams to a successful project delivery using the company Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) procedures or Techniques and in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Responsibilities
- Steer operational process improvement with full ownership and responsibility including communication with all internal/External stakeholders
- Meet with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project
- Ensures definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Ensure that technical and operational procedures and business continuity plans are maintained regularly
- Develop new and improved service delivery channels which meet customer’s needs
- Implement quality assurance measures to improve business monitoring, mitigate/eliminate existing inefficiencies, operational issues and risks
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
- Measure project performance using appropriate tools and report and escalate to management as needed
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Perform other related duties as assigned
- Develop spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs
- Develop new and improved service delivery channels which meet customer’s needs
- Provide team leadership and development through mentoring, manpower planning and skill set development.
Requirements
- Proven working experience leading program management processes and technologies, financial budget management, in-depth experience with portfolio and program management.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent;
- Minimum of 10 years progressive project management and leadership responsibility in Technology Industry
- Deliver projects with agreed schedules and budgets.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, manage, and motivate people
- A proven understanding of project budget and cost tracking, including annual budgets, capital requisition processes, purchasing, invoice processing and budget reconciliation
- Experience in vendor management, RFP processes, negotiating third party contracts
- Must be certified in Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
Skills & proficiencies:
- Mastery of project management methodology, tools and templates includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management
- IT background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all project phases - plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.
- Strong management and leadership skills
- Experience in working with multiple discipline projects.
- Teamworking skills and ability to motivate people
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send in their CV to:
[email protected] using the role and location eg: (Project Manager - Lagos) as subject title.