Telkom PMO Lead Jobs in Kenya

Telkom PMO Lead Jobs in Kenya


Role Purpose

  • PMO Lead is responsible for significant, organization-wide projects, focused on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors and stakeholders.

  • S/He will coordinate people, resources and processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and produce the desired result.

  • Leads the design, testing, planning, and implementation of complex projects.

    Key Duties and Responsibilities

  • End to end direct responsibility of project implementation benefits realization and project prioritization.

  • Familiarize self with Telkom Kenya’s strategic intent in respect to product offering and target clientele, as well as their specific requirements.

  • Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility while providing leadership and oversight to a team of technical program/project managers.

  • Work with business sponsors to develop project roadmaps that align with business objectives/priority and take into account resource availability.

  • Manage delivery schedules and budgets to ensure project delivery is on time, within scope and in budget.

  • Establish project governance systems and protocols across the organization and ensure that these are applied across the board.

  • Enforce quality gates in all the projects and programs within the domain

  • Relationship management with clients and key stakeholders involved in project management.

  • Prepare sound communication plans and manage information dissemination

  • Oversee companywide training and coaching on Project Management

  • Use of standard project methodology and tools to track progress against deliverables

  • Manage third party and specialist resources assigned to projects

  • Identify, manage and mitigate risks that may impact projects

  • Prepare project status reports and steering committee presentations

  • Oversee creation and maintenance of comprehensive project documentation throughout the project Perform risk management to minimize project risks

  • Manage team, ensuring achievement of goals, capability, and optimal deployment

  • Resource
    allocation through coordination of internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects

  • Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs

  • Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.

    Academic Background and Professional Knowledge

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Telecommunications or related field

  • Must be a fully qualified and accredited project manager (PMP)

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
    Proficient in Microsoft Project

  • Minimum 8 years’ experience in managing complex technical projects.

  • Experience in telecoms required, but focus is on general understanding.

  • Functional experience in the following fields is valuable in the role: organizational change, product / go-to-market strategy, distribution strategy, sales force effectiveness, customer experience / centricity / loyalty, business development, pricing, CAPEX planning, operational efficiency / process optimization.

    Here are the skills we are looking for

  • Highly developed interpersonal skills aligned to strong team leadership competencies.
    Project management

  • Planning and organizing

  • Business process analysis/modeling

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with clearly demonstrated methodologies to keep project teams and stakeholders well informed.

  • Excellent negotiation skills

  • Budgeting

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Great attention to detail

  • Strong business, financial acumen commercial experience.

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; Telkom PMO Lead Jobs in Kenya

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