IT Project Manager at Salt South Africa

Job description

 Project Delivery Management

•  Take a project from inception (idea stage), and organise a plan to deliver all aspects of the final working solution
•  Define project objectives, scope, impacts, outputs, cost, benefits and success criteria in collaboration with business champions, business unit management and stakeholders and programme sponsor (where applicable)
•  Manage the people, processes and technology required to deliver solutions effectively according to the project requirements
•  Lead cross functional project teams by task assignment and follow up to ensure on-time completion
•  Ensure delivery of the required output(s) for each phase or stage
•  Create and control all project management related documents
•  Conduct post implementation reviews (PIRs), define recommendations based on best practices and lessons learnt

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

•  Deep understanding and experience of IT Project Management methodologies
•  Ability to develop Business Cases or Feasibility studies to justify initiatives for approval by the Executive team
•  Ability to align the IT Projects being executed to Business Requirements throughout the programs and projects lifecycle
•  Proactive Risk and Issue Management skills
•  Ability to analyse the impact of change on the Business, Programs and Projects and put required actions in place
•  Retail Business acumen

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION

•  Relevant 3 year tertiary or NQF aligned qualification
•  Project Management certification

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

•  Up to 7 years’ experience in programme and project management
•  Managed at least 5 IT or IT related projects through the complete project management lifecycle
•  Agile Project Management experience
•  Proven track record of delivering business application and infrastructure projects
• Relevant retail industry experience and advantage
• Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.