MTN Group Limited entered the telecommunications scene at the dawn of South Africa’s democracy, in 1994. In 1998, we began our expansion by acquiring licences in Rwanda, Uganda and Swaziland. Since then, we continued to grow, with a view of bringing world-class telecommunications and digital services to markets across Africa and the Middle East. Through ou...
Delivery within scope, timelines, budget and quality
Delivery of projects following MTN project management way of work and within quality standards
Acceptance of the various minimum completed project milestones by the project owner/sponsor
Successful Go to Market with no negative impact on supporting channels and/or customer experience
Reporting on project progress against plan
Positive feedback from the project owner/sponsor on project close-out
Management of resolution of issues and risks
Delivers solutions that reflects the range of project management knowledge/methods/practices
Adherence to Programme Management Office Governance
RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Delivery
Manages all aspects of the project pertaining to scope, delivery timelines, budget, risks and quality to ensure successful project execution.
Define the appropriate project governance and controls
Define and confirm the project scope with relevant stakeholders
Governance
Promotes adherence to governance by ensuring that relevant processes and prescribed methodologies are observed.
Supports the Programme manager in mitigating audit, compliance, procurement and risk issues
Foster quality deliverables
Ensures approved processes are followed to manage deviations to scope and any other agreed project outcomes.
Ensures that all necessary approvals are secured and in place.
Project Management
Facilitates detailed project scoping and planning
Facilitate the creation and maintenance of minimum key project documentation
Manages performance of cross functional teams
Manage complex/cross-functional projects
Sets up and manage project governance meetings regularly
Proactively manages key risks, issues, and dependencies and sets mitigation actions in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
Helps document change management, communication and training requirements and facilitates identification of respective champions to drive these changes across the business
Commercial Readiness
Ensure all cross functional impacts are identified and managed as part of the projects
Provides input into change management and communication strategies to facilitate operationalisation of the change across all stakeholders (internal and external)
Ensure Project & Portfolio management tool is updated as and when require
Risk Management & Escalations
Ensure projects risks are identified and managed with mitigations plans in place
Manages and resolves team escalations to mitigate delivery risk
Escalates issues that will result in significant time, scope, employee/customer or cost impacts if not resolved
Manages and provides solutions to issues that require formal resolution
Performance
Monitoring and tracking the health status of the project based on the identified constraints and objectives
Create plans to address any deviations from scope, timelines and quality
Reporting
Report on a regular basis to business stakeholders on progress
Reports in accordance with the agreed upon templates and governance structures
Compile relevant project & portfolio reporting
Team building
Identifies cross functional roles required to support project delivery and negotiate with relevant line managers for their allocation to the project
Assists with project onboarding of the allocated team members
Works closely with the team to clearly articulate and document team members roles and responsibilities
Manages and resolves conflicts within the team
Stakeholder engagement:
Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders of projects
Build relationship with project executive sponsors and/or project owners to ensure speedy resolution of escalations.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree
Project Management Certification
(PMP,CAPM, Agile, Prince2, etc)
Minimum of 6 years’ experience -
Minimum 3-5 years managing projects for end to end delivery using PMBOK/PRINCE2 methodologies
Experience in taking products to market (Go to market)
Experience in Managing complex/crossfunctional projects
Agile Experience
Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP,Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration,
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