Job Description Summary

The Delivery Manager owns the project’s Delivery Model and is the Technical Leader on the Project. The Delivery Manager cultivates relationships with a portfolio of customers during the project delivery and provides advice and assistance on the strategy, structure, management and operations of the Electrification Software implementation.

The Delivery Manager provides technical leadership in pre-sales and delivery phases to clients, cross functional GE Vernova teams and key suppliers to identify and define client business outcomes and continues to manage those relationships to ensure outcomes are met within project constraints

Out teams contribute to major infrastructure projects delivering Transmission, Distribution and Market system parts of the national and regional coordination of electricity on the African continent. The successful candidate will bring expertise in leading the Electrification Software Delivery part of large and complex IT projects associated with the management of Transmission and Distribution electrical grids, associated assets and Markets to meet the schedule, cost and quality commitments.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Share responsibility with the Project Manager (PM) through close coordination for scope management, schedule, risk management, and quality management.
• Accountable for the end-to-end software delivery to meet the schedule, cost and quality commitments. 
•  Project Execution control: Build effective Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) as well as accurately track, update, and report task activity progress. Manage project team and activities to drive project deliverables.
• Performance Measurement: On-time delivery, Committed budget (effort) deviation, Software Delivery Processes Compliance, Customer Satisfaction.
• Communicate effectively with Project Manager, Customer, Project team (SSA and global), DevOps on project and technical items such as project status, risks and mitigation, scope, and issues.
• Trigger and validate engineering Gate Reviews (Requirements, Design, Factory Testing Readiness, Site Acceptance Readiness) within GE Vernova and the customer
• Deploy GE Vernova GridOS, Smallworld GIS and Performance solutions to client environments.
• Respond to all client inquiries, bugs, and product ideas for in-flight projects and file tickets for the Product team.
• Perform use case and client specific testing runs and lead factory and site acceptance testing.
• Analyse and assess data and results of project activities and tasks.
• Utilise GE Vernova Product knowledge and expertise to drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement, change management (costs base reduction, lead time reduction, productivity improvement, quality improvement, etc)
• Agile mindset and ability to work with one or more teams (region and global) to execute and deliver solutions for our customers.
• Validate project scope review in coordination with the Solution Design team identifying, documenting, and estimating any change requests (CR) or project risks with mitigation plans. Work with Project Manager to communicate with customer.
• Assist in the tendering process for project proposals or CRs working with the Customer Engagement team/resource managers to validate scope and estimates as well as reviewing each proposal with the customer. 
• Ensure a smooth transfer to maintenance at project end
• Engage in Customer management activities with Project Manager
• Work with Project Manager to report or resolve any process non-conformances in a timely manner

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related Engineering Discipline from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with 5 years of experience in Electrification Software Services).
• Strong electricity industry knowledge with 2+ years relevant working experience.
• Fluent oral / written communication skills in French.is mandatory

Desired Characteristics

• Industry knowledge in the field of operation and multi-sites project organizations.
• Process and methodology oriented.
• Highly collaborative and able to work across the organization to accomplish common goals.
• Fluent oral / written communication skills in English
• Some experience with:
  • Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) or
  • Market Management Systems (MMS) will be a plus
• Experience with Geospatial Information Systems (e.g. Smallworld or ESRI ArcGIS) will be a plus
• Ability and willingness to travel.

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