Junior Project Manager at erpSOFTapp

At erpSOFTapp, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal -- to enable our clients current and prospective in Nigeria, West Africa and internationally to realise the power of utilising Odoo Enterprise Business Applications ERP to improve their business.
 

We are a small highly professional team growing quickly and focused on continuing to build a world-class company to shake up the ERP market with Odoo.

We are looking for an extraordinary individual who will be an addition to our professional team and can think laterally within situations of project delivery management. This is a key support role within project management teams, typically tasked with assisting the project manager in the planning and execution phase of project operations.

If you are looking for a role that stops when you leave the office, please do not apply. This is a full on role to achieve the required success

Job Responsibilities

• Understand the project scope, budget, duration and create the project requirements needed to complete the project.
• Supervise lower project manager levels, such as assistants and associates. 
• Schedule and conduct project meetings to communicate the team members’ roles, project expectations, and deliverables and ensure the project team has the tools and training required to perform the project’s task.
• Monitor the projects regularly to evaluate the progress, quality, management issues emerging, and any events that might cause a delay in project completion.
• Safeguard and maintain all the quality documents and data to ensure project integrity is enhanced.
• Identify areas of conflict of interest, which might hinder project implementation and propose possible solutions to the conflict of interest.
• Develop project plans and enhance adherence to the project plans to ensure project quality is maintained.
• Design the project methodologies and deliverables and monitor all teams to enhance adherence to the best-identified methodology.
• Identify project risks and prepare risk mitigation measures to enhance full utilisation of project resources.
• Maintain a good working relationship with project vendors to enhance quality and timely delivery of supplies.

Qualifications/Skills

• Bachelor's degree in project management or business administration
• Minimum of 2 years work experience
• Certified junior in project management
• Proven working experience in project management
• Competence in IT usage, particularly in standard project management tools like PowerPoint and Excel.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work with strict deadlines.
• Ability to work under pressure and complete projects within a set duration and budget.
• Conflict resolution skills

Requirements

• Project Management qualification required but not essential
• Experience of managing software and business delivery projects with a timeline of at least 6 months from initiation to delivery.
• Waterfall, Agile and Prince2 methodologies
• UML Design principles experience