Project Manager at TBWA\ South Africa

Key Purpose: Manage and resource and drive efficient delivery of all Yellowwood projects.

Requirements

• Require Knowledge and Experience:
• Tertiary Education: Degree/Diploma in an applicable field, i.e. Project Management or recognition of prior learning (RPL)
• Related work experience: 5 Years practical working experience
• Project efficiency insights: sourced from hours/tasking/resourcing features of Chase

Required Skills:

• Agility: classic project management skills of adaptability and ‘moving with the changes’, coming up with new resourcing plans to ‘crash the schedule’ and speeding up timeframes, where warranted
• Business Intelligence: improving productivity, process efficiency, compiling simple and relatable reports for Management
• Resourcing Intelligence: troubleshooting and identifying issues before they occur
• Genera Resourcing capabilities: pro-actively, identifying resourcing scheduling conflicts/challenges early-on & providing solutions (with assistance from Strategic Directors and Projects Directors)
• ‘Implementation Phase’ skills: liaison with suppliers, occasional liaison with clients (not Client Service), streamlining with other members of Support Team for process efficiency. Setting up IDIs/KPI's including Control Sheet. Back-up Assistance with Workshops and Travel (in support of a liaison who holds these key/primary tasks)
• ‘Post Project Phase’ skills: conduct a brief Learning Session with entire team and thereafter document and share learnings & suggest process improvements to the Strategic Directors
• ‘Traffic/Resourcing’ skills: classic resourcing management and pro-active feedback to management on the ‘temperature’ and currency capability and capacity of the Company resources. Knowing what tasks/phase/projects people are working on, what tasks are incoming, and which are completed

Required technical skills:

• MS PowerPoint (Intermediate)
• MS Excel (Intermediate)
• MS Word (Intermediate)
• Smart Sheet/MS Project (Basic)
• Both PC and Mac-literate

Personal Attributes:

• Determination, pro-activity: identifying issues with timeframes/resourcing before and during Projects, Co-operative and Empathetic with an ability to work well with others under pressure
• All employees are expected to embody and demonstrate the Yellowwood Values summaries as Unconventional Wisdom:
• Originality: We are driven by the fact that every person, challenge and solution is unique. Always pushing for a better way to do something and never complacent; aways learning and improving
• Bravery: We’re not afraid to challenge or be challenged
• Humanity: We have a genuine compassion and understanding of people and their contexts