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Job title : Project Manager
Job Location : Lagos
Deadline : November 28, 2024
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Description
The Project Manager will manage projects with top-down oversight throughout the entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
Responsibilities:
Project Management
- Plan and manage assigned deployment projects ensuring that they are successfully completed in accordance with established scope, timelines, budgets, risks management, quality and technical standards.
- Coordinate and guide deployment projects throughout their project lifecycle. Prepare appropriate project plans with supporting documentation.
- Analyze the economics of project plans and provide actionable feedback relating to cost-benefit and return-on-investment standards.
- Monitor overall project progress systematically including identification of risks, issues escalation, initiating contingency plans and corrective actions where necessary.
- Manage project administration including required technical documentation as well as report in a clear and periodic manner on progress of projects.
- Design guidelines and framework for managing the journey to customer success; ensuring that captured requirements and deliverables are efficiently deployed.
- Facilitate effective communication channels, collaboration and alignment with key stakeholders.
- Assess project performance metrics to identify areas for improvement.
- Establish clear escalation protocols for addressing issues that arise during the project lifecycle.
External Stakeholder Management
- Act as the key contact person for clients or partners, maintaining regular communication to address needs and concerns.
- Facilitate meetings with external stakeholders to review proposed modifications on project plans, ensuring appropriate approvals are obtained.
- Work closely with clients to identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with external vendors to ensure alignment with project objectives and timelines.
- Engage with regulatory bodies or compliance agencies as necessary to ensure project adherence to relevant regulations and standards.
- Support growth teams by leveraging relationships to expedite collections.
Internal Stakeholder Management
- Manage key internal stakeholders to ensure the required buy-in and support throughout the project lifecycle.
- Coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from contract finalization, definition of Statement of Work through implementation and project close out.
- Coordinate project teams to support all aspects of project planning and execution activities with emphasis on defining and providing management reporting for schedule, milestones and deliverables, and quality metrics.
- Communicate proactively with all relevant stakeholders to identify problems, create solutions, and implement enhancements to operational efficiency.
- Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to ensure the appropriate approvals are obtained and changes required are accurately implemented within reasonable time line
Business Insight
- Provide technical input and support to strategic growth and commercial efforts.
- Review user requirements and usability metrics to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Collaborate with Product Development Teams other relevant teams in evaluating new technology and tools as opportunities for innovation, service excellence and improved methodology.
Requirements
- Minimum 6 years’ broad experience in managing deployment of technology related projects
- Extensive Experience deploying enterprise grade software
- Strong accountability and collaborative skills with a high degree of ethical standards and integrity
- Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Excellent communication, business presentation, persuasion and analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly establish credibility
- Advanced understanding of project management practices, methodologies, tools and techniques
- Focused and self-motivated approach to work
- High mathematical aptitude and strong problem solving skills
- Digitally savvy and proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, Project Management and work productivity tools
- First Degree is preferred
- Professional Qualification PMP, PRINCE II is preferred
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