Senior Manager

Job Description

Role purpose :The Project Manager will be leading a project and/or program portfolio and be accountable for ensuring high quality (project/program) management advisory and consulting services to Vodafone Local Markets, Vodafone Shared Services and Group Functions with the focus on either a VSS Service Line or Digital. The projects that the Project Manager will lead can include business process transition projects, transformation projects, strategic projects and digital projects (Robotics Process Automation and equivalent technology + Intelligent Automation) as part of a larger transformation program. The Project Manager will be fully accountable for leading the assignment to a timely and satisfactorycompletion whilst following the project methodology accurately, ensuring all project deliverables are completed and signed off by relevant business stakeholders, registering templates/documents and project updates accurately and timely on the project portfolio platform, setting up and leading project governance with all project stakeholders, ensuring Risk and Compliance deliverables are fulfilled without delays and report back status to management and proactively work towards removing potential obstacles and roadblocks along the project s full lifecycle. The Project Manager will be leading all virtual project members, ensuring roles and responsibilities are clear and distribute work packages to all project resources.Respecting the overall project delivery timelines, tracking the project budget allocation and identifying all project resource requirements.Maintaining good rapport withall project stakeholders and ensuring transparent communication with the business partners, virtual project team and other project key stakeholders.Supporting commercial and opportunity management activities in generating solutions and creating business cases. Key accountabilities and decision ownership include but not limited to: Project/Program Management Delivery of a portfolio with various project types as per pre-defined milestones, facilitating timely completion of all deliverables whilst managing resources, deadlines and budgetary requirements.- Professional services projects: Leveraging project/program management expertise and advisory capabilitiesfor the benefit of Vodafone Local Markets and Group Functions.- Business process transition projects: Migrating Vodafone Local Market business processes to the Vodafone Shared Services platformLeading the following aspects for any type of project: 1. Time: length of work packages and keeping to key milestones and management phases; 2. Cost: owningthe project budgets and assigning resources within the budgetary constraints; 3. Scope: ensuring the scope of the project does not deviate from the initial business case and Project Initiation Document/Scope of Work.Forming and Leading virtual project teams and work streams Identify the supporting functions/work streams required to deliver each project. As part of the Project Initiation Document/Scope of Work, a clear split of responsibilities and work packages to be delivered by the supporting functions/workstreams will be created. Ensure the functions/work streams deliver on time and initiate mechanisms and project governancewhere progress will be monitored and reviewed. Facilitate information streams and reviews between allproject key stakeholders. Reporting Ensure all projects are maintained in the central project repository. Maintain the rigor as perthe agreed program/project governance and ensure project reporting is accurateand to the point. Reporting should enable to have a zero surprise environment and leadership support requirements should be impactful and punchy. Represent the team on global project/program reviews, steerco s and conferences. Commercial activity and value generation Supporting business development and thegeneration of new leads and opportunities for the team with existing and new accounts and business partners. Ensuring all value is captured and reported to the local and global value committees (labour arbitrage, productivity and knowledge arbitrage) Project/program budgets, no Direct Reports, Dotted Reports - Virtual project team resources for the duration and assignment of the project , *

• Project Management in a Captive Finance Shared Service Centre or third party BPO , Experience of independently managing at least 4 F&A Transitions for international clients
• Demonstrated experiencein leading projects in an advisory and consultative capacity.
• Ability to apply thought leadership in providing business solutions to customers.
• Relevant university degree in Business Management, Economics, Business Administration or equivalent.
• Proven experience in setting up large, complex virtual project teams in a global setting.
• Self-starter who can operate under minimal supervision.
• Ability to operate in ablue sky thinking environment and dream big
• Experience in process transformation/improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, digitalisation, automation)
• Professional project/program management practitioner certification in PMP, Prince2, APM, ITIL or equivalent.
• Strong computer literacy, advanced usage of MS Office and MS Project
• Fluent written and spoken English, other languages can be an advantage.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong relationship management, negotiating& influencing skills.

Keyskills :
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