Project Manager (Information Technology) at BlueSky

Description

We are looking for a passionate Project Manager to join our Delivery Team. As a Project Manager at BlueSky, you will be responsible for delivering digital cloud-based projects according to agreed client requirements from discovery to delivery to enable client business goals achievement. Able to strategically plan and align the internal and external project delivery processes between client and the BlueSky team.

Key Responsibilities

Client/Customer:

• Create a single point of ownership with the client

• Analyse relevant business intelligence to identify, justify through business cases, and drive continuous improvement initiatives for clients.

• Identify and manage stakeholder relationships.

• Develop trust relationship with client

• Establish brand with clients.

• Ensure relevant client experience and change management practices in order to support successful client project delivery

Delivery:

• Ensure the project based on client requirements are facilitated through to completion within the required value, time frame and budgets

• Provide project management support to the client from initial briefing and scoping phase, through to planning, estimating and budgeting, resource scheduling, design and development and full implementation of the project plans

• Able to choose appropriate delivery methods i.e. agile, waterfall etc. that enables delivery and project success

• Deliver operational excellence with the ability to anticipate potential issues and dependencies, highlight project risks, and manage and change against any business and technical requirements by effectively suggesting solutions or contingency plans at the appropriate stage of projects.

• Ability to schedule, track and prioritise the work correctly against critical deadlines and milestones

• Be the custodian of the project change management process. i.e. identifying scope creep and ensuring any changes/new requirements are documented, agreed and updated into the existing project plan

• Effectively communicate the project status to both internal and external stakeholders during meetings, working through respective plans and key stakeholder deliverables.

• Optimising and improving project management processes and the overall approach where necessary to find efficiency.

• Manage project team to deliver objectives of the project.

• Document and facilitate project close-out activities for handover to clients

Requirements

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degrees and/or Advanced Diplomas

Preferred Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degrees with Honours and/or Advanced Diplomas

Minimum Experience:

• 3-5 years’ experience in a similar environment

Advantageous Certifications

• Agile-based certifications

• Design-thinking / Customer experience certifications

Personal Attributes

• Ability to learn fast and adapt well in unfamiliar situations.

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize

• Ability to think in a creative and strategic way, but adept at delivering operationally.

• Ability to think strategically and plan ahead

• Analysis and judgement

• Attention to detail

• Business acumen

• Collaborative

• Conscientious

• Coordinate and facilitate meetings and reviews

• Critical thinking

• Customer Orientated

• Drive and energy

• Excellence Orientation

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders

• Get things done

• Goal- and results-drive

• Initiative

• Interpersonal Problem Solving

• Interpersonal Skills

• Manage cross-functional teams

• Multi-tasking

• Passionate about delivering simply outstanding digital client experiences.

• Personal resilience

• Planning and Organising

• Problem solver

• Query handling

• Simplify complex workflows

• Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking.

• Strong organizational skills

• Strong people management skills with the ability to lead multiple complex projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with multiple stakeholders.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Team leadership

• Tech-savvy