Job Vacancy: Senior Associate; Project Management Team

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Job Vacancy: Job title: Senior Associate; Project Management Team

Job description: Line of Service AdvisoryIndustry/Sector Not ApplicableSpecialism Technology StrategyManagement Level Senior AssociateJob Description & Summary A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.As a member of the team, you’ll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you’ll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.Are you eager to elevate your career to new heights, are you eager to work in a fast-paced environment, PwC Nigeria is looking for exceptional Project Managers to join the Technology project delivery team. This outstanding career development opportunity will see you manage projects around the world-famous platforms within diverse client environments.Description/Responsibilities

• Conduct feasibility studies in new business initiatives and create project charter identifying project scope, expectations, objectives, risks, approach, and deliverables in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders, to support clients’ business goals.
• Identify project deliverables, develop thorough work plans, set milestones and timeframes for all deliverables.
• Review issues and problems related to projects, identifying potential project risks. Providing recommendations to address/mitigate risks.
• Evaluate, track, and manage the development and performance of project team members, to ensure productivity and achievement of business results.
• Ability to track project benefits and effective value realization monitoring.
• Manage vendors and contracts within the project chain.
• Compile lessons to learn for use by project teams in execution of on-going and future projects and participate in post project delivery review.
• This position requires a highly organized and pragmatic individual to manage client implementations and assist with pre-sales activities.

The Project manager will also have the following responsibilities:
▪ Ability to determine the implementation method to be used on projects.
▪ Monitor, track, and report on project progress.
▪ Prepare project communication plans.
▪ Prepare and manage risk and quality management plans.
▪ Managing the projects constraints, including scope, time, budget, quality, risk, and resources.
▪ Providing status reports to executive sponsors and other stakeholders as required.
▪ Leading the project team.
▪ Close out project ensuring all resources are accounted for and released appropriately.Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience delivering end to end Technology projects for medium to large organizations.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in an area of technology specialization
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in agile practices and related tools. That is, proven experience in delivering projects applying Agile Methodologies and excellent knowledge on DevOps.

• Experience in Software Engineering, Architecture Technology, Strategy and Data Engineering is an advantage.
• Experience in coordinating multiple projects within and outside a program.
• Experience working in a medium to large multinational Technology organization.

• Proven experience in Managing large scale digital projects and solutions across complex, trans-national, cross-Functional program and channels.

• Experience of facilitating project coordination and managing expectations across internal, 3rd party and/or client teams according to project requirements and workstreams from kick off to deployment.
• Risk management prior to and during the project execution, managing risks within project timelines, budgets, and quality.
• Quality reporting for different spectrum of stakeholders.
• Formal project management experience in digital technologies such as cloud technology, new generation Apps, APIs and microservices is an advantage.
• Professional accreditation in a recognized project delivery methodology such as Scrum, PRINCE2/PMP Certification will be an advantage. Candidates who completed such certification training will also be considered.
• Strong time management, team facilitation, stakeholder management and organizational skills.
• Ability to influence and motivate others.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Fluent in English
• Experience with analyzing complex issues and delivering appropriate solutions.

Relevant Skills

• Communication and Leadership
• Excellent Stakeholder Management
• Problem Solving , Critical and Strategic Thinking
• Facilitation and Presentation
• Influencing/Negotiating
• Decision making and Conflict Management.
• Futuristic/Innovative
• Business Analysis
• Process design & improvement
• Digital Transformation
• Change Management

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified) Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)Required SkillsOptional SkillsDesired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)Travel Requirements Up to 20%Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? NoGovernment Clearance Required? NoJob Posting End Date May 17, 2024

Location: Lagos, Lagos State

Job date: Sun, 05 May 2024 06:48:52 GMT

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