Regional Head, PMO at IHS Towers - Rivers

IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain - colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.

Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Regional Head, PMO

Location: Port Harcourt
Reports To: Regional Principal Technical Officer

Summary

• The Regional Head, Project Management Office applies professional principles, practices, and techniques to lead project teams and control project schedule, cost, and performance risks to ensure satisfied customers.
• This role has the ultimate responsibility for all assigned projects and manages customer satisfaction, definition, planning, monitoring, and others aspects of a project.

Responsibilities

• To understand and communicate regional requirements to appropriate team members, and manage all requirements accordingly for the region.
• Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, and provide timely feedback.
• Coordinate and facilitate delivery of project objectives in the region.
• Track progress and review project tasks to make sure deadlines are met in a timely manner.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.
• Proactively communicate project status, issues & risks to the Head Office.
• Follow policies, procedures and methodologies.
• Conduct regular status meetings with direct reports, keeping the stakeholder’s needs and requirements continuously in view.
• Work collaboratively with regional rollout team and support staff to maintain thorough knowledge of product capabilities, and to ensure that all communication within the region is precise.
• Define & maintain all implementation processes, manage implementation lifecycle; coordinate documentation when needed.
• Arrange training and align training with customer goals.
• Troubleshoot technical issues when the need arises, and escalating appropriately as needed.
• Maintain timelines and target dates in project databases
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, planning, demos and other agile project related meetings.
• Ensure all teams are practicing the principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Facilitate productivity by ensuring that the team has tools to succeed.
• Find and work to remove development and project roadblocks; motivates the regional operations team and keep them engaged.
• Manage the team - Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly commitments are being upheld

Competencies

• Project Management
• Strong Verbal and Written Communications.
• SLA and Vendor Management.
• Resource Management.
• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a Science, Business or Telecommunications discipline.
• 10 years’ experience in project management, and/or related functional areas
• Current PMP certification or is actively pursuing professional project management certification (PMP),
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
• Excellent computer proficiency (MS Office – Word, Excel Projects, Visio, Outlook etc)

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and Cover letter to: talent@ihstowers.com indicating in the subject the name and location of the role.