IT Project Manager (Telecommunication industry)

1- Project Management:

• Manage end-to-end large projects activities that include several stages or phases or small programs that include few projects and ensure compliance with company requirements using both waterfall and Agile approaches
• Establish official and standardized project management processes and guidelines for the overall Project, and ensure these are followed for all projects.
• Plan and prioritize sub-milestones to meet the overall project goals and objectives.
• Identify project inter-dependencies and pre-requisites to minimize contract/WO extensions and project changes.
• Monitor overall Project cost, schedule, and technical performance, and take preventative or corrective as required.
• Responsible for determining and coordinating the sharing of resources among their constituent projects to the overall benefit of the project.
• Responsible for stakeholder management across the full Project.
  Manage inter-relations between various planned/ongoing projects to capture pre-requisites and align projects’ implementation.
• Maintain an effective relationship with all involved vendors and contractors to ensure Project delivery within scope, budget and time.
• Ensure effective closeout and handover of completed Projects.
• Provide project management methodology and the latest Agile methodology in telecom industry mainly in IT and systems projects

2- Reporting

• Prepare the ongoing periodical progress reports during the Project lifecycle.
• Provide standardized and consolidated reporting across all projects in each Project.

3-Budgeting

• Participate in budget preparation in the initial stages of the Project and during implementation controlling and monitoring the budget to see that it is within the budget limits.
• Processing and release of contractors/sub-contractors payments.
• Manage payment acceptance processing and project documentation.
• Provide Cashflow, Capitalization reports as requested and agreed with finance team on monthly basis either direct submission or in ones for all managed Contract/WOs.

4- People Management:

• Prioritize tasks, assign and delegate responsibility and monitor the workflow of subordinates and track productivity within the team
• Obtain commitments from the team to support the Project goals andobjectives
• Provide guidance and ensure that direct reports comply with company policies, processes, practices and systems
• Ensure the definition and discussion of SMART KPIs in the beginning of the year with regular feedback to direct reports on their performance throughout the year.
• Contribute to the preparation of the business plan of the organization.
• Identify areas for improvement in business processes providing possible PM solutions
• Make recommendations to senior general management for Project Management Enhancement. 
• Sharing Project Management Experience in form of Presentations / Workshop i.e. one quarterly to other Project Managers.