IT Project Manager Job at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Project Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

  • The IT Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing and managing the network/telecom Project Based Services engagements.
  • The Project Manager will work closely with Project, Sales, Vendors, and Client teams to ensure connectivity orders are placed, tracked, and delivered according to project timelines.
  • Candidate must be able to proactively work to set customer expectation to assure a smooth project including project timeline, client requirements, and critical dependencies.
  • Candidate will also be responsible for reconciliation and forecasting of telecom and other network engagements.
  • Candidate must possess strong financial skills with strong attention to detail.

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of related experience in customer facing, technology deployment and support environment
  • 5 years plus in Project Management and 3 plus in Financial Management
  • Bachelor’s Degree in IT or Telecom background
  • Ability to work under tight timelines in a demanding environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Ability to work closely with the Business Leaders, IT Partners, and peers for the project, the customer and the development/implementation team within a Project Team environment – both internal to NCR and external with the customer.
  • Interface with multiple business functions and organizations, as well as multiple specialists, in defining, producing and managing plans for successful project delivery
  • Ability to lead/coordinate a cross-functional team, ensuring that projects meet defined scope, time, cost and quality constraints
  • Ability to deal with organizational influences, ambiguity and continuous change.

Position Summary & Key Areas of Responsibilities

  • Required to oversee projects. This role originates in the Plan Phase and extend through the Deployment Phase of the Project Management Governance Process; Oversight of Project from Concept Phase through Deployment via other Project Managers
  • Decompose projects into time-phased elements and prioritize key deliverables; Assumes full accountability for overall success of a project through deployment.
  • Define project goals and objectives; Identify customer requirements; Identify resource requirements; Develop project budget; Track incurred and projected expenses against program plan and report to management.
  • Prioritize resource allocation; Assist with resource negotiation; Manage cost/schedule/resource variances
  • Produce project documentation; Establish/maintain project information system; Monitor and control project
  • Develop and be accountable for the overall project plan; Ensure resources are committed and engaged for all project phases
  • Primary function of role is translating customer IT services requirements into customer solutions/contracts that secure customer loyalty, drive acceptable profit margins and are delivered with fidelity
  • Role requires strong project management skills and leadership in a dynamic and deadline driven environment
  • Required to qualify and develop a solution that is mutually acceptable to the client and the company
  • Liaise closely with pricing analysts to ensure operational commitments are translated accurately into cost assumptions
  • Provide sales team with technical and service presales support; Prepare and deliver services presentations to current and prospective customers
  • Negotiates directly with customers and contractors
  • Certifications and proficiency in Technology and Telecom fields of knowledge. Cisco wireless certifications are an asset.
  • Ensures the program meet established time, cost, technical and customer objectives.

Deadline: 27th September, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV, current and expected salary to: contact@gvapartners.com , umoe@gvapartners.com and susano@gvapartners.com with “IT Project Manager” as subject of the mail.


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