Project Manager

Tangent (International) Ltd; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tangent (International) Ltd is seeking an OSS / BSS Transformation Project Manager for a 12-month rolling contract based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing customer programs and ensuring successful delivery within agreed budgets and timelines.

This role requires excellent project management skills and experience in OSS/BSS systems. Candidates based in South Africa are preferred due to urgent hiring needs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management within telecommunications or similar sectors.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectively.
• Strong understanding of OSS/BSS systems and practices.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for delivering customer projects within scope, time, and budget.
• Manage customer relationships during project delivery.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards throughout project lifecycle.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Quality assurance

Software development

Change management

Job description

The client is looking for a OSS / BSS Transformation Project Manager to work a 12 month rolling contract based in South Africa (Johannesburg).

Summary:

• Team of Project Managers supporting Core Network Services (CNS) Project in South Africa, covering the following fields OSS/BSS – Operations Support System / Business Support System.
• CNS Projects comprises of multiple products mainly being FlowOne, UIV (Unified Inventory), OH (Order Hub) running on Red Hat Openshift.

What you will learn and contribute to:

• The Project Manager is accountable for an external Customer Program (collection of Projects managed together) or Project for an assigned product and/or service scope.
• The Project Manager ensures Customer Projects / Programmes are delivered within agreed Scope, Budget, Schedule and Quality.

• Plans Customer Project and keeps plan updated to reflect and anticipate changes by coordinating Change Management on all aspects affecting Cost, Scope, Schedule and quality (CSSQ).
• Manages the Customer relationship during delivery and serves as the primary interface towards the Customer in all activities-related to the own scope of the contract, including Customer complaints, corrective actions, and changing requirements.
• Actively applies appropriate best practices and lessons learned throughout the life of the Project. Monitors, controls, and reports KPI’s defined in Customer contract.
• Ensures all Project and Operational management is in full alignment with Mode of Operation (MoO), BG / BL guidelines and the PM@ methodology.
• Monitors and controls that the Project is delivered within the approved budget, profitability forecast, and planned scope.
• Monitoring of progression of a project at every stage and ensure that the objectives are met.
• Quality Assurance, maintain a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery and development.
• Meeting deadlines, completes task and deliverables timeously.
• Stakeholder management, ensure that stakeholders are identified and engaged.
• Software development, be able to manage the expectation of the business users and keep it aligned to the development teams.
• Communication, timeously keep all stake holders up to date and provide feedback honestly and transparently.

Please note: Due to the urgent hiring the client is looking for consultants based in South Africa.