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Ericsson kenya

ICT Program Director

Nairobi Kenya

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Ericsson kenya

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ICT Program Director

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The skills you bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Minimum 6 years of experience as Program Manager, including Core and Cloud delivery
  • Experience delivering physical, virtualized, and containerized Network Function projects
  • Expertise in automating test and deployment processes
  • Experience to Support sales teams to drive new business opportunities.
  • Strong project control skills, with the ability to manage projects to meet targets and deadlines.
  • Solid financial background and experience with business case development
  • Highly developed risk-management skills
  • Demonstrated accountability, customer-focused mindset, positive outlook, willingness to help others outside your assigned activities
  • Strong relationship management experience with leadership, engineers, developers, support, and sales teams
  • Innovative and creative problem-solving abilities.
  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent project management certification is preferred.
  • Experience with solutions in the Packet Core and communication services platforms (e.g., Dual Mode Core, PCC/PCG, MME, EPG, SAPC, UDM, IMS VoLTE, IoT)
  • Experience using automation and software management tools such as JIRA, Confluence or SharePoint.


Responsibilities
  • Drive sophisticated 5G and 4G Core and Cloud engagements from initial scoping through delivery for Ericsson’s Customers in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry
  • Lead and empower local and global teams to deliver on-time, enhance profitability, and improve continuously, through strong governance and project controls
  • Identify all milestones, obstacles, recommend and implement workable solutions, identify and mitigate risk, raise and resolve issues
  • Lead change management including the definition of impacts to scope, budget, timeline, and quality with stakeholder agreement
  • Build strong internal and external relationships
  • Harvest and optimize best practices, create and share knowledge assets to industrialize delivery processes
  • Promote a “one team” atmosphere and coach project team members to support their professional growth


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