Job description / Role
Purpose of the job
Manage the team responsible for ICT strategic projects.
Duties and responsibilities
- Monitors build progress, overseeing finance and ensuring overall ICT projects quality.
- Establishes the ICT projects plan baseline, define project scope, secure the necessary resources, and plans and monitor all activities.
- Managing project managers and enabling them to supervise and manage their own tasks.
- Ensures alignment between clients, stakeholders, and project managers to maintain project progress.
- Manages customer relationship by building confidence, trust and ensure project progress arranging meetings and customer events.
- Devising cost-effective plans to enable effective project completion.
- Managing risks to avoid delays or reputational damage.
- Ensuring permits and legal papers are secured ahead of the project and during the project implementation.
- Manages external partnerships and contracts with different agencies for program delivery when needed.
- Drive project execution, track project activities, monitor deadlines and milestones, handle changes, conflicts, and critical issues.
- Handles project financials ensuring financial monitoring.
- Participate in contract preparation and to pre-sales meetings.
- Devise evaluation strategies to monitor project performance and determine the need for improvements.
- Discover ways to enhance efficiency and productivity of procedures and people.
- Apply change, risk and resource management principles when needed.
- Ensure program operations and activities adhere to legal guidelines and internal policies.
- Keeps top management informed with detailed and accurate reports or presentations.
Requirements
Job specification
Education
- ICT University graduate
Experience
- Min 5 years of work experience including 2 years in a similar position.
Skills and abilities
- Can foster a sense of team spirit within different departments.
- Communicates well and relays information in a timely manner.
- Has good budgeting skills and can reduce costs without making adjustments that would affect quality.
- Knows what is required for a particular project to be completed and has realistic expectations as far as meeting deadlines go.
- Possesses good math skills and can make accurate calculations quickly and easily.
- Has good leadership and supervisory skills.
- Ability to work under tight scheduling.
About the Company
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2022 and 136,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 75,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 287 million customers worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 242 million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.