Manager - Project Strategy and Innovation at MTN

Responsibilities
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
• Project Management Qualifications 
• Business Telecoms Experience 
• Business Analyst experience / good understanding of Business Analyst role