Customer Delivery Senior Project Manager German Speaker (VOIS) at Vodafone United States

Giza, Giza, Egypt -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

11 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

12 Jan, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Stakeholder Engagement, Team Leadership, Risk Management, Financial Management, Communication Skills, Quality Assurance, Change Management, Budget Management, Customer Centricity, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Problem Solving, Presentation Skills, Relationship Building, Strategic Planning

Industry

Telecommunications

Description

Join Us At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact. Role Purpose: The Customer Delivery Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of large customer-facing projects across multiple domains on behalf of Vodafone's Enterprise Customers. The role involves leading complex multi-party teams and typically encompasses complex and bespoke solutions for Vodafone customers that aim to transform up to two IT solutions within a single project scope, usually across multiple countries within a region. The role reports to the Agile Portfolio Lead or Program Manager, depending on the delivery structure. Key accountabilities and decision ownership: 1- Vision, Planning and Control: Communicate the high-level vision for the project's expected outcomes and the customer's desired future state. Design the delivery capability to deliver such a complex project. Create a detailed project plan, using Transformational Flows, identifying the resources required, critical path, and all activities that the business needs to do to prepare for new technical or business components. Manage and control the performance of the project plan. Formulate and manage stakeholder communications plans. Forecast and manage the resource supply and demand throughout the lifecycle of the project, as needed (colleagues, technology, financial). 2- Organization and Leadership: Clarify the skills requirements of a project and build a team capable of managing it. Manage the team in the successful delivery of the project. Manage project planning and resourcing processes, balancing priorities. Take on a coaching and mentoring role, motivating others and boosting morale. Be key influences within the customer environment during the lifecycle of the project. Initiate and influence relationships with and between key stakeholders, external and internal. Produce a project stakeholder map, conduct analysis to ensure stakeholder needs are understood and met. Support effective business change by building relationships with and between senior strategists, planners, designers, operations business partners, and business change managers. Have strong hands-on experience with the Tribe/Squad/Chapters/Guilds/Programme manager and understand the key differences in responsibilities for each group. 3- Quality Assurance and Reporting: Ensure quality assurance standards are applied across project workstreams. Ensure suitable project status reporting mechanisms are put in place. Produce regular, ad hoc, and exception reports in line with the agreed communications plan. Ensure timely and accurate reporting, covering aspects (Budget, Timelines and Quality) of scope, outputs, and performance against agreed critical success factors, KPIs, and benefits tracking. Maintain accurate financial reports. Maintain a document library for the project and produce project-level Lessons Learned & Closure reports. Have strong hands-on experience with Agile delivery management tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.). 4- Risk, Issue, and Change Management: Define the project Risk & Change strategy. Maintain regular risk management and mitigation planning, ensuring all stakeholders are fully informed of risks and potential impacts. Maintain an effective change management process. 5- Financial Management – Benefits, Commercial, Partner & 3rd Party Management: Ensure that strategic outcomes expected by the projects are aligned to benefits realization plan, and that benefits tracking process is in place and managed effectively. In the event of project scope changes materializing, ensure that financial plans are reviewed and adjusted accordingly. Be accountable for managing, forecasting, and reporting on all related budget and expenditure. 6- Key performance indicators Delivering project expectations and contract obligations – demonstrating alignment to company Governance & Methodology. Visible and effective stakeholder management – ensuring the project deliver Vodafone operational acceptance criteria. Core competencies, knowledge and experience : Experience: Typically, 4 years of relevant experience in end-to-end managing major complex customer projects delivery in the ICT field. Actual hand-on experience in Agile project management delivery frameworks, contributing to and supporting release planning, facilitating Scrum of Scrums, Roadmap Updates, and shepherding the Communities of Practice. Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement: Able to adapt style and apply influencing skills to a range of complex relationships. Maintain relationships at senior levels. Able to respond positively and convincingly to constructive challenge from the team and oversee the management of any issues with poor performance. Create and manage high performing cross-functional teams to deliver against agreed plans to the customer. Professional and Customer Centric: Able to deliver confident and engaging presentations at the most senior level, drawing on a range of communications techniques to adapt to challenging situations and audiences. Provides interface with other areas of business to ensure departmental knowledge is shared and obtained. Business Skills: Applies knowledge of business and markets to create intellectual property. Has in-depth knowledge of multiple domains and understands the company's position in the place. Ability to influence Strategic Squads and main CI squads to maximize the benefits for the organization. Must-Have Technical/Professional Qualifications: C1 Level German is a must C1 Level English is a plus , B2 level is a must Prince 2 Practitioner/PMP or PMI-ACP. SAFe Agilist (Scaled Agile). Proven experience of concurrently agile management of multiple projects of differing size and complexity to meet business expectations and deliver results. Proven ability to build relationships and influence at all levels internally and externally, including excellent customer-facing skills (ability to communicate effectively with the customer account teams, in addition to end-users and technical persons). Experience in project budget management. Understanding of financial accounting, including capitalization and profit and loss. Strong cross-functional working capabilities. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills #VOIS #BeUnrivalled #Createthefuture

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Responsibilities

The Customer Delivery Senior Project Manager leads the delivery of large customer-facing projects across multiple domains for Vodafone's Enterprise Customers. This includes managing complex multi-party teams and ensuring successful project outcomes through effective planning, execution, and stakeholder management.