Project Manager

About the position

Duties Responsibilities


 

• Coordinate and lead weekly project meetings to facilitate communication and progress tracking.


• Create, update and disseminate comprehensive weekly project progress reports, including meeting minutes and action logs.


• Monitor project deliverables and implement corrective actions as necessary to ensure alignment with project goals.


• Manage project risks and issues, implementing strategies to mitigate potential challenges.


• Maintain meticulous control over scope changes, ensuring the business case is updated and obtaining necessary customer signoffs.


• Chair various project meetings, preparing essential documents such as minutes and reports for SteerCo, Weekly Status Stakeholder meetings, and Daily Stand-ups.


• Direct and motivate project teams across GroupTech to ensure the successful delivery of project scope within established time, cost, and quality parameters.


• Regularly update project plans to reflect evolving project requirements and timelines.


• Escalate issues to project sponsors, technical leads, and other relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.


• Update, submit, and manage change registers and change controls to track modifications to the project scope.


• Manage overall project scope, schedules, deliverables, communications, and risks while ensuring compliance with quality standards and adherence to relevant methodologies and templates (governance).


• Monitor key interdependencies and complexities, communicating them effectively across the business.


• Oversee the registration, administration, and execution of projects in alignment with company objectives.


• Provide comprehensive project documentation for all projects, ensuring transparency and accessibility of information.


• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with the Project Management Methodology, project standards, and business strategy, meeting the specified business requirements.


• Provide necessary support to the Programme Manager, Senior Managers and Head of PMO as required.


• Manage key interdependencies and complexities (cross functional teams across organization) closely and ensure these are communicated and understood across Business and Group Tech

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent NQF Level 7 Qualification in Business /Project Management/ Engineering


• Project Management certification (PMP®/Prince2®/ Agile or similar) - Advantageous 

Experience

• A minimum of 5+ of relevant work experience


• Senior Project Management


• Proven track record in delivering complex cross-functional projects


• Proven track record in delivering OTT projects

Technical Competencies

• Project Management methodology (PMBOK / Prince2 / Agile)


• Managing multiple complex projects (cross functional teams)


• Project Governance


• RAIDs Management (Proactive and Reactive)


• Support Budget Development Management


• Support Change Management


• Support Benefits Realisation


• Stakeholder Management


• Effectively managing collaboration in cross functional teams


• Strong Communication Skills

Desired Skills:

• Instructing
• Learning Strategies
• Active Listening
• Coordination
• Management of Personnel Resources
• Persuasion
• Service Orientation