Safaricom Technology & Project Governance Senior Manager Job in Kenya

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Strategy and Planning Department within the Technology Division. 

In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below: 

Senior Manager - Technology & Project Governance
 

Ref: TECHNOLOGY_SMTPG_APR_2014

Reporting to the Head of Department – Strategy and Planning, the role holder will strive to attain organizational strategic objectives through development of frameworks governing effective management of projects, technology, budgets and operations.  

This role requires a high caliber individual with strong strategic mindset, solid understanding of processes required to increase productivity and efficiency in the technology organization and a proven track record for working effectively with a wide set of stakeholders on complex technology programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and enforce a standard that ensures the technology organization is aligned to business strategy and objectives;
• Provide an end-to-end business view of the governance of technology that reflects the central role of information and technology in creating value for the business;
• Develop and enforce a framework for the approval of budget against projects sponsored by the business units in delivering the corporate strategy and objectives;
• Provide regular end-to-end business view of the committed projects delivering business objectives as a central role of information to business as a whole entity;
• Manage interfaces with other technology domains, Corporate Strategy, Vodafone Technology  networks (VTN) and Vodafone Group OpCos to ensure an aligned approach towards strategy and architecture development, working as one team to deliver benefit for our customers;
• Working with procurement and technology network domains to ensure we leverage on supplier competition to drive innovation, manage costs and provide best customer experience;
• Manage the transition and delivery of architectural elements of projects based on project requirements;
• Develop and communicate governance framework for technology;
• Drive sharing knowledge, decisions, patterns and lessons learnt to integrate new solutions;
• Drive uniformity of technology approach for planning & operational processes across Technology;
• Attract & recruit the best talent;
• Develop the team through learning initiatives, mentoring & coaching so at to create Technology Subject Leads within the architecture domain to support the Strategy Function.

Role Requirements

• A University degree in a telecommunications biased discipline;
• Excellent people and stakeholder management skills;
• Able to provide strong leadership within a multinational, multicultural environment;
• Experience of leading development of complex technology strategies, architectures or roadmaps;
• Strong presentation and communication skills with ability to recognize and balance conflicting interests;
• Results driven with high levels of energy & initiative;
• Good understanding of broad set of Network technologies;
• Proven track record in network architecture and strategy development;
• Experience in evaluating and managing suppliers.

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience please send your resume and application letter indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role clearly quoting the job title and job reference to the address below. 

The deadline for application is Tuesday 15th April 2014.

The Head of Talent and Resourcing,
Safaricom Limited
Nairobi via E-mail to hr@safaricom.co.ke