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Ict Program Director

Ericsson Kenya

full time Nairobi Posted 22 hours ago

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.

  • 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