Job Title: Project Planner
Job Code: PP/MM/130607
Number of Positions Open: 1
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Summary: We design, manufactures and sells highly functional, highly affordable vehicles as a transportation platform empowering local entrepreneurs to mobilize the developing world.
They recognize that appropriate transport is a key enabler to socio-economic development in deprived communities across the developing world and aim to unlock this vast potential by designing, manufacturing and selling a new vehicle for Africa, starting in Kenya.
They are looking for exceptional individuals who share their vision and possess the skills and attitude necessary to make a valuable contribution to our work in Africa.Job Objective:
They are seeking an exceptional early-mid career professional to coordinate our technical and operations teams to deliver diverse and complex projects from inception to launch.
The role will require a close working relationship across the client’s management team, particularly with the Integration Manager and Supply Chain Manager. Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
Primary 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, aftersales 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 client’s management and leadership.
- Develop a simple and quick process for team members to feed status updates into a central project management system.
- Develop simply and robust project management dashboards for both team and cross functional projects – present dashboard to the client’s 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 the client’s leadership and project leads.
Skills and Certification:
- 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.
Required:
- Bachelor degree (minimum) in a quantitative subject
- 3.4 GPA or higher from a top university worldwide
- 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 the client 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
- Proficiency in Project, Viso, 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
Experience: 4+ years related experience in project management
Desired:
Desired:
- 6+ years related experience in project management or operations
- Knowledge of manufacturing, equipment and process within final assembly, body shop, paint shop and powertrain
- Fluency in Kiswahili (the national language of Kenya)
How to Apply:
Interested candidates holding the necessary requirements, good performance and / or references are encouraged to apply with detailed CV’s, inclusive of names and contacts of 3 referees, current telephone number and email address by scrolling down and clicking on: Project Planner
Interested candidates holding the necessary requirements, good performance and / or references are encouraged to apply with detailed CV’s, inclusive of names and contacts of 3 referees, current telephone number and email address by scrolling down and clicking on: Project Planner