IT Project Manager - Kenya
BURN Manufacturing
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Nairobi, Kenya
Posted on Feb 7, 2025
About the Role:
The IT Project Manager will plan, organize and implement IT and ERP projects across BURN; in Kenya and subsidiary countries. The main duties will include coordinating production releases, roll-outs, budgeting and reporting on projects’ progress and results. The resource will work closely with the IT Director, ERP Manager and IT Manager to drive multiple IT & ERP projects across BURN.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Requirements, Skills and Qualifications:
Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply
BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).
The IT Project Manager will plan, organize and implement IT and ERP projects across BURN; in Kenya and subsidiary countries. The main duties will include coordinating production releases, roll-outs, budgeting and reporting on projects’ progress and results. The resource will work closely with the IT Director, ERP Manager and IT Manager to drive multiple IT & ERP projects across BURN.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare estimations on scope, budget, timeframe, and quantity of resources required to successfully implement a project
- Coordinate the preparation of initial scope and statements of work and RFI, RFQ, RFP selection process where external vendors are involved
- Act as a Single Point of Contact [SPOC] for assigned projects and manage the various project workstreams; he will also act as the gate keeper between Development and Support teams
- Ensure that partners, vendors and 3rd parties deliver their respective responsibilities and tasks
- Manage Projects Lifecycle Management [SDLC] including: Goals-Requirements-Scope-Estimation-Resourcing-Budgeting-VendorSelection-RFI/RFP/RFQ-Initiation-Analysis-Design-Development-Testing-Guides-Training-Support-LessonsLearned-CSI-Loopback
- Identify and manage project risks, dependencies and flag major issues early, resolve problems
- Establish Project Team structure engaging representatives from business and operations, run daily stand-ups, weekly PM coordination meetings, monthly project steering committees
- Engage Product Owners, Business/Product/Process Analyst, UX/UI Designer, Software Developers, Infrastructure/DevOps and QA/Testers to act as one orchestrated product delivery team
- Investigate complex issues of production delivery, execute root cause analysis, establish a fix solution and push it through required steps as required
- Prepare and communicate projects status reports, automate and structure project wiki contents
- Prepare and orchestrate execution of Unit tests, SIT tests, CX/UX/UI test, UAT tests, Integration tests, Smoke (pre-Go-Live) tests
- Manage the preparation of user training (Product Manual) and support service training (Service Support Manual), manage the execution of readiness training sessions internally
- Prepare go-live release calendar with backup dates, ensure post-production support on standby
- Organise internal project experience sharing and continuous Projects Delivery Process Improvement
Requirements, Skills and Qualifications:
- Project Management
- Project Delivery Lifecyle (SDLC)
- Project Planning and Economics: Scoping, Estimation, Budgeting, Cost Control, Resourcing
- Project Team Management and Resource Allocation, Capacity and Demand
- Project Communications, Risks-Issues-Dependencies, Dashboard and Status Reporting
- Vendor Selection and Vendor Management is not essential but is a plus
- Minimum 4+ years’ experience delivering projects in system integration, ERP, software development; ideally Project Management delivery within manufacturing or financial services sectors. Experience with Digital products will be an added advantage
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in Project Estimation, Planning, Delivery Management
- Experience in facilitating product delivery workshops with internal teams and vendors
- Good Project Management skillset and experience with PM tools (MS Project, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Basic estimation and status reports)
- Ability to work on several projects simultaneously, plan, prioritise them, engage multiple teams
- Ability to establish good working relationships with internal colleagues, partners and vendors, plus the ability to work effectively as a virtual member of a dynamic and geographically dispersed teams to orchestrate efforts and meet delivery deadlines
- Ability to scope, plan, control design-and-development projects using Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid methods and working with a mix of teams in multiple locations
- Familiar with and capable of delivering proof-of-concept(PoC) trail product based on requirements catalogue, collecting full set of functional requirements, and facilitating selection of optimal base solution
- Team leadership and stakeholder management, handling challenges and taking responsibility
- Very good communication, presentation, organisational and planning skills
- Strong people skills, people engagement and project delivery focus
- Ability to bring colleagues together, inspire internal stakeholders, and foster a sense of team
- Comfortable addressing complex functional requirements and working under pressure with tight deadlines
- Ability and openness to build knowledge about existing and new cards and payment products and technologies as well as lifestyle management and e-commerce solutions
- Yes-I-will-do-it attitude doer personality, striving for professional excellence and successful completion of delivery projects
- Enthusiastic, positive, self-motivated, multitasking, reliable to deliver, quick-thinker, able to drive work in a young fast-paced multi-project work environment
- Responsible, with strong attention to detail, very structured and well organised
Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply
BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).
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