Job Vacancy at IBM Ghana - Delivery Project Manager

Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana Posted 4 years ago Posted on Project Management

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

The Delivery Project Manager Duties And Responsibilities

- Accomplishes information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
- Delivery service planning
- Maintaining positive relationship with the customer
- Managing customer needs and overseeing delivery within the business context
- Conducting risk assessments for the project
- Coordinating teams and developing schedules and individual responsibilities
- Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.
- Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
- Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.

Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.
Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirement
Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action.
Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing deliverables; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices.
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
Identifying and developing new opportunities with clients
Obtaining customer acceptance and achieving customer satisfaction in the support of the client

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant program - additional Certifications a plus.
Minimum 10+ years of working experience managing IT Organizations & teams.
Professional Certification: ITIL Foundation. ITIL Practitioner shall be an added advantage
Professional Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE 2

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

To succeed in as service delivery manager, you must be highly innovative because the job involves constant look out for ways of improving customer experience
Must have exceptional ability to plan and implement service delivery processes. In addition, a keen eye for identifying business opportunities, developing business case and translating such plans into solutions to improve service delivery is also very important
The service delivery manager must be effective at communicating with all kinds of individuals – clients, managers, and subordinates

About Business Unit

At Global Technology Services (GTS), we help our clients envision the future by offering end-to-end IT and technology support services, supported by an unmatched global delivery network. It's a unique blend of bold new ideas and client-first thinking. If you can restlessly reinvent yourself and solve problems in new ways, work on both technology and business projects, and ask, "What else is possible?" GTS is the place for you!

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Location Statement
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