Project Lead, Information & Digital Technology

The IDT Project Lead will manage end-to-end delivery of application projects across Renaissance value chain, ensuring alignment with business goals, operational excellence and digital transformation objectives with stakeholders buy-in.

Renaissance African Energy Company (RENAISSANCE) is on a dynamic journey to evolve into a world-class energy powerhouse, unleashing the entirety of our growth potential through collaborative efforts. Seamlessly weaving through the midstream value chain and fortifying our core capabilities, we stand ready to be the cornerstone of national development and industrialization, signaling a new era of unparalleled progress.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Purpose:

• The IDT Project Lead will manage end-to-end delivery of application projects across Renaissance value chain, ensuring alignment with business goals, operational excellence and digital transformation objectives with stakeholders buy-in.
• He/she will have the opportunity to work in a challenging but rewarding environment that is fast paced and changing as we transform our business to meet Renaissance’s 2030 Ambition.
• The job will therefore be required to interface with business/functional leadership and JV Partners as well as managing project resources, contracts/RtP and all other tasks required to deliver projects to quality scope and within budget and schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Manage IDT Application Projects under his/her oversight, with an overall budget of up to $3M
• Mobilise and lead teams composed of a mixture of staff and suppliers across organisational boundaries and the natural team, ensuring they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes
• Ensure business requirements are properly defined and delivered to specified quality scope, schedule and cost
• Plan, execute, monitor, control and close all aspects of the project lifecycle. This will include the deployment of leadingedge IDT technology in support of the annual business plan, following Waterfall or Agile approach
• Apply standard project management and IDT control/assurance methodologies including Architecture, Information Risk Management (IRM) and Supportability & Transition Management (S&TM) as documented in the Renaissance Project
• Delivery Framework (PDF)
• Monitor and control projects performance against plans. Maintain effective financial and project progress forecasting and reports as appropriate to stakeholders. Ensure that projects are formally closed and where appropriate, subsequently reviewed and that lessons learnt are captured and appropriate actions taken
• Partner with business stakeholders to define success metrics and criteria and to identify, measure, and track planned vs. achieved benefits. Sustaining business improvement process to realize benefits and ensure projects are transitioned into a business-driven activity sustainable to the levels the business requires to execute its priorities
• Ensure appropriate stakeholder change and communication plans and engagements are developed and executed. Maintain effective engagement with IDT and Business stakeholders and customers to achieve a high level of support and customer satisfaction for projects
• Ensure that planning and execution of all aspect of the project delivery are conducted in strict compliance to Renaissance
• HSSE standards and requirements
• Understands and applies the theory and practice of change management. Knows and uses various change methodologies appropriately at the individual, team and organisational level
• Accountable for provision of requisite project-based training for project resources, systems and end-user support and customers to ensure proper embedding of project deliverables and productive and optimal use of new systems
• Ensure compliance with Joint Venture (JV) agreements and guidelines, including supporting JV approvals for required budget and subsequent budget performance
• Oversee risk management, issue resolution, and reporting to governance bodies

Job Dimension: The Project Lead will have proficiency across the following four key dimensions:

• Project delivery skills in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Domain knowledge of Upstream Business
• Professional skills, such as leadership, communication and resilience
• Entrepreneurial skills, such as a business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling, stakeholder management and enabling value creation
• The Applications & ERP team provides its staff members a unique opportunity to blend IDT and business skills. It provides a technically challenging work environment and encourages innovation in the course of delivering assigned tasks.

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers

• Bachelor's Degree (Honours) or higher University Degree in Computer Science, Applied Sciences or Engineering PMP, PRINCE2, CBAP or equivalent certification.
• Minimum of 9 years’ experience in Project Management and broad knowledge of Renaissance Upstream business processes
• Experience in vendor management for projects/support and JV management
• Good track record in delivery of IT or Business projects

How to apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

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