Description
Firmly established as Africa’s carriers’ carrier, award-winning capacity wholesaler WIOCC provides international and African telcos and ISPs with unrivalled high-speed, resilient and diverse capacity into, within and out of Africa. In November 2012 (at Africa Com), WIOCC won the Best Pan-African Initiative Award for building an unparalleled, dive…
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Project Manager Netsuite – Migration
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience5 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldProject Management
Reporting Line: Director Business Support
Job Objective: This role is charged with the planning, implementing, executing and closure of NetSuite migration project from Mid-Market edition to SuiteSuccess edition
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Work with process owners to gather business requirements for data migration needs
- Work across multiple functional areas to understand data usage and implications of data migration
- Assist in designing, planning, and managing the data migration process
- Work with subject matter experts and project team to identify, define, collate, document, and communicate the data migration requirements
- Develop best practice, processes, and standards for effectively carrying out data migration activities
- Perform data migration audit, reconciliation, and exception reporting
- Good project management practices and tools to control cost, scope, and schedule to ensure progress remains on track
- Develop and maintain a detailed project execution plan
- Create and communicate a roles and responsibilities matrix for project teams
- Develop and follow a communication plan that defines information flow and project status reporting requirements
- Develop a risk register with mitigation plans for each identified risk
- Define a quality plan that is communicated and implemented
- Develop a project estimate with appropriate work breakdown structure granularity that is updated with earned value and regularly reviewed with the project team
- Hold regular team meetings with defined agendas and published minutes
- Maintain an updated action item log that is readily available to the project team
- Ensure proper testing and verification before cutover to the new SuiteSuccess system
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in IT
- 5+ years of proven delivery, managing increasingly complex projects
- 5+ years of recent experience in cloud and IT transition, transformation, and migration management, preferably with mass migrations technology
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office tools
- Project Management certification
Experience & Skills:
- 5+ years of proven experience in Project Management
- Experience/certification in acknowledged project management methodologies is an asset, or other known project management techniques and procedures
- Knowledge and experience on ERP systems and/or ERP implementations is a plus
- Strong communication, mediation, and negotiation skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and resources
- Ability to act as the point of contact between project team, sponsors, managers, and clients
- Excellent leadership, analysis, facilitation, and client relationship skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- High degree of initiative, accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively in a distributed team environment
- Ability to work effectively with all levels of management and staff
Attributes:
- Client focused; relationship builder
- Integrity; honest with highest ethical standards
- Boundless, passionate, and flexible
- Personal excellence, accuracy, and attention to detail
- Collaborative; achieve results through teamwork and partnerships
Method of Application
Interested qualified candidates should submit a current CV with contacts of three referees to hr@wiocc.net not later than Friday, 26th February 2021.