Project Manager - Northern Suburbs (Cape) at PEP

Key Responsibilities 

Project management 

•  Project management of large cross-functional projects 
•  Development of full scale project plans for project delivery (Set up; scope; resources; timelines; budgets; phase/project milestones; identify cross functional project teams; metrics for project success; ROI; risk management etc) 
• Manage project proposals, project unpacking & business case, resources and functional dependency analysis 

Budget management 

• Facilitates change management 
• Effectively monitor, track and control the performance of a project 
• Ensure projects adheres to architecture blueprints 
• Communicate project updates regularly - feedback to client 
• Stakeholder management and engagement.

Project Portfolio management 

• Facilitation of the process to gather project information for the building and configuration of the project portfolio. 
• Provide guidance to the business on the development of business cases for projects. 
• Identification, unpacking and resolution of portfolio constraints (key resources, dependencies, financial).Build and maintain project matrix for the prioritisation of projects 
• Project Demand view, Capacity planning, Project management, 3rd party management 

PMO Services 

• Fulfils a project consultant/advisor role to the business 
• Training other project managers in all, or certain key aspects of project management e.g. task scheduling, risk management, etc. 
• Provides project management resources (i.e, project management methodologies and tools; project management software application) to the business 
• Mentors/coaches other in project management principles 
• Compliance tracking against prescribed project management standards 
• Keeps abreast of project management trends and developments. \

JOB INCUMBENT REQUIREMENTS:

• Relevant tertiary qualification (e.g. IT; Commercial ; Computer Science). 
• Project management qualification/training (e.g. PMBOK, Prince2 or similar) 
• Professional project management certification (e.g. PMP) will be an advantage 
• 3-5 years project management experience 
• Retail experience will be an advantage 
• PMO or similar experience will be an advantage 
• Proven track record of medium to large scale projects 
• Experience leading cross functional project teams 
• Budget Management - Understands financial costing and management
• Competencies: Organizational Sensitivity, Drive, Negotiating, Directing, Result orientated, Analytical, Analysing and forming opinions