Project Manager at MultiChoice

Purpose of the Position:

• The mission of our PMO is to introduce and maintain a consistent approach to managing projects within the Connected Video Technology division. We develop and support project management methodologies, which enables us to deliver projects on time, within budget and within scope while exceeding users’ expectations.

Key Performance Objectives

Tasks

• Establish and monitor healthy, diverse internal and external relations and implement remedial actions where required, in the achievement of organisational goals 
• Understand the priorities and interdependencies of past, current and future work to ensure optimal outcomes 
• Plan and manage a portfolio of projects and initiatives (both large and small) with multiple stakeholders to deliver within timelines, budgets and resource requirements 
• Communicate and report on projects status, risk and timelines to provide visibility to all stakeholders including executive sponsors and team members 
• Work with technical teams on sizing of user stories and prioritisation, identify and resolve issues and conflicts, mitigate risks where applicable, perform tracking and task management 
• Apply the project management methodologies maintained by PMO, support improvements in the projects’ delivery 
   

Experience

• English language on communication level 
• Experience/certification in agile/waterfall project management 
• Experience with software development processes (ideally from the entertainment industry) with various teams (backend, frontend) and stakeholders (marketing, product, legal, operations) 
• Experience with data science project and teams including data scientists 
• Experience with dual-track project management (discovery, delivery) 
• Proficient in leadership and stakeholders’ communication 
• Open-minded, integrity, sense for details 
• Relationship Building, Conflict Resolution, Holistic Thinking