Senior Project Manager - Kempton Park at DHL

Role Outline

Manage medium to large projects in line with the project management methodology to achieve successful project delivery.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Manage the overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and project delivery
• Develop detailed project plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and status reports to maintain customer satisfaction
• Responsible for managing the budget and reporting progress of the project on an ongoing basis
• Obtain feedback from key stakeholders and provide accurate reporting at critical milestones and manage stakeholder relationships
• Establish reporting structures inside the project team, ensure team engagement and review the performance of project team members
• Projects delivered on time, on budget, within scope and within agreed quality standards
• Implement strategic project management initiatives
• Manage the overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and delivery of local medium / large projects (single / multi area or product) to ensure that project goals and objectives are met within agreed upon time, scope, budget and resource requirements
• Manage the issues on the project, drive resolution of issues for a satisfactory outcome and escalate issues as appropriate
• Manage the scope of the project. Document scope changes and gain approval by required parties to ensure benefit realization
• Manage the budget of the project and resolve all spending issues
• Function as a subject matter expert in area where the project manager has expertise (e.g. automation, specific IT systems, inventory control etc)
• Manage project progress to all stakeholders in accordance with a well structured communications plan and ensure all communication is tailored to stakeholder needs
• Ensure the health of the project, manage project risks and mitigation plans and ensure these risks are proactively communicated
• Responsible for implementing the DePICT project management methodology and risk management process. Ensuring the Plan View system reflects the projects status at the end of every week.
• Deliver best practice project documentation, completed to quality standards, kept up to date, available throughout the project and maintained in the project database
• Manage the application of the ACT change management methodology and approach. Identify, manage and influence stakeholders to achieve business benefits
• Provide project management support to the sales / bid management process
• Manage project performance against the business cases and implement action plans to ensure benefit realization
• Manage performance to health and safety standards
• Implement previous lessons learnt output and feedback to drive continuous improvement
• To fully understand and measure the compliance to O2D
• Identify the project resource, roles and responsibilities, SME's required to deliver the business benefits
• Lead the project team to accomplish the tasks as outlined, manage change and deliver business benefits
• Manage the performance of project team members

Qualifications/ Skills/Competencies/Experience

• Matric - Essential
• 6+ years experience in logistics (desirable)
• University degree (Essential)
• Professional project management certification, desirable e.g. PMP, Prince 2 Practitioner (desirable and valid certification), Agile
• Agile project management experience beneficial
• DePICT project management methodology (essential) PM101
• ACT change management methodology (essential)
• DMAIC process improvement methodology (desirable)
• Knowledge of the O2D process via in house training