Job Description
Key Accountabilities and Decision Ownership:
- Vision, Planning and Control:
- Act as project/delivery manager where you will build, lead, motivate, direct, and support the cross-functional project delivery team by developing a clear vision of successes and nurturing strong relationships and trust within the team – lead from the front, keeping the team informed
- Identify all stakeholders, suppliers, and delivery functions at kick off, build strong relationships that are nurtured and constantly reassessed through lifecycle
- Build a motivated and effective project delivery team and sense of purpose and accountability to deliver for our stakeholders
- Communicates the High-Level Vision for the project/programme and the customers “desired” future state. Designs the delivery capability to deliver the programme
- Creates a detailed project/programme plan, using Transformational Flows, identifying the resources required, project interdependencies and critical path, including all the activities that the business need to do to prepare for new technical or business components identifying the projects within the Programme plan
- Create cost estimated for the business
- Ensure that all projects/programme work streams and project plans are integrated within the overall programme plan
- Manage and control the performance of the project plan. Identify and embed measurable outcomes & critical success factors into the programme plan
- Formulate and manage stakeholder communications plans
- Forecast and manage the resource supply and demand throughout the lifecycle of the project/programme (colleagues, technology, financial)
- Organisation & Leadership:
- Manages the team in the successful delivery of the programme/project
- Manages project planning and resourcing processes, balancing priorities
- Takes on a coaching and mentoring role, motivating others, and boosting moral
- Key influences within the work environment during the lifecycle of the project/programme
- Initiate and influence relationships with and between key stakeholders, external and internal
- Produce project/programme stakeholder map, conduct analysis to ensure stakeholder needs are understood and met
- Work to improve relations and provide continuing support to open communications with and between stakeholders
- Innovation, Change Management, Risk/Issue Management:
- Continuously check that the project deliverables innovatively deliver business and technical change that drive forward Vodafone’s transformation
- Constantly re-evaluate costs versus benefits through project life cycle, challenging broader team (including Sponsor) to think “outside of the box” to innovatively deliver benefits, challenging and improving process as required
- Comfortable working in an ambiguous environment, flexible in adapting to adapt to constantly changing priorities and ways of working
- Defines the project Risk & Change strategy. Maintaining regular risk management and mitigation planning, ensuring all stakeholders are fully informed of risks and potential impactsMust Have Technical / Professional Qualifications:
- Background in Telco / Network environment
- At least 3 years of experience in project management, preferably in the telecommunications industry
- Prince 2 Practitioner or PMP
- Proven experience of concurrently managing multiple projects or programmes of differing size and complexity to meet business expectations and deliver results
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence at all levels internally and externally, including excellent interaction skills (ability to communicate effectively with the different stakeholders’ levels (end users, technical persons, etc)
- Experience in programme and project budget management
- Understanding of financial accounting including capitalisation and profit and loss
- Strong cross-functional working capabilities
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to drive an effective project team
- Understanding and experience of working in a telecommunications environment
- Ability to quickly assimilate technical knowledge from outside own area of expertise
- Highly competent in Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint/Visio/Project
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