Vacancy: Project Manager
Industry: Automotive
Location: Nairobi
Salary: Shs 300K - 400K
Our client, who manufactures, and sells highly durable, highly affordable
vehicles for Africa’s mass market are looking to hire exceptional early-mid
career professional Project Manager to coordinate their technical and
operations teams to deliver diverse and complex projects from inception to
launch.
The role will require a close working
relationship across the management team, particularly with the Integration
Manager and Supply Chain Manager.
Job Responsibilities:-
Project Planning
Job Responsibilities:-
Project Planning
- Develop, manage and communicate robust project
plans across the organization – ensure key stakeholders are identified and
kept regularly updated on progress and escalate risks/issues accordingly.
- Map project plan dependencies between
engineering, supply chain, production, procurement, after sales and sales
and marketing functions.
- Work closely with technical and operations
staff to monitor the status of project line items and proactively identify
and mitigate risks and issues.
- Maintain a rigorous risk and issue log for
tasks on each project – ensure key stakeholders are kept regularly
informed.
- Produce professional, simple and error-free
documents to the company management and leadership.
- Develop a simple and quick process for team
members to feed status updates into a central project management system.
- Develop simple and robust project management
dashboards for both team and cross-functional projects – present dashboard
to the company leadership as appropriate.
- Maintain historical log of deadlines to
better understand actual man-hours dedicated to each task – analyze historical
plans to effectively allocate proper resources and lead times to new
projects.
Communication and Facilitation
- Facilitate efficient daily cross-functional
standing meetings to ensure team projects are on track for timely
completion.
- Present regular project management dashboard
to company leadership and project leads.
Requirements
- An ideal candidate should combine outstanding
technical skills in project management with excellent interpersonal and
communication skills to work effectively with a multidisciplinary team.
They should be adept to quickly grasp organizational interdependencies and
be comfortable organizing complex information into actionable plans.
- Bachelor degree (minimum) in a quantitative
subject
- 4+ years related experience in project
management
- Excellent problem solving ability in a
cross-functional and multi-cultural environment; able to define problems,
collect relevant data, extract meaning from data, and draw valid
conclusions
- Strong analytical skills with regards to data
manipulation and the ability to create information from data
- Ability to effectively communicate timelines
and project progress with both internal and external management teams
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to quickly grasp high level concepts
and develop actionable plans even with initial limited understanding of
technical concepts
- Exceptional intellectual curiosity and ability
to seek clarity on information they do not understand from Company staff and
personal external research
- Ability to take ownership and accountability
of project timeline and results
- Strong technical writing ability; able to read
and interpret drawings
- High Proficiency in Project Management tools
like MS Project
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word,
Access, Visio
- Ability to adapt to a dynamic working
environment and work within a diverse team
- Excellent oral and written communication
skills
- Extreme patience and a good sense of humor
- Excellent interpersonal skills to work
effectively with others; ability to communicate potentially negative
information in an effective way
- A start-up personality; entrepreneurial,
ambitious, independent, systematic attention to detail, structured
thinker, goal oriented, flexible, and able to deal well with setbacks
- Fluency in English and swahili
- Knowledge of manufacturing, equipment and
process within final assembly, body shop, paint shop and powertrain
If you are up to the challenge,
posses the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV only
quoting the job title on the email subject (Project Manager 300 – 400K)
to jobs@corporatestaffing.co.ke before 3rd December, 2014.
Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV
Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV
N.B: We do not charge any fee for receiving your CV or for interviewing
Only candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted.