Senior Project Manager - Midrand at Nexio

ROLE PURPOSE

• The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for successfully planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing a project while adhering to the PMO governance requirements and contractual deliverables that are in place with clients. The Project Manager will also play a role during the bid tender response process. Key to this role is portfolio management which pre-assumes the capability to manage complex and multiple projects. This means the ability to set up portfolio reporting and engage and manage stakeholders at all levels to drive profitable projects within scope.

ROLE REQUIREMENT

• Ensure that the scope of the project is inline with what was proposed and sold.
• Ensure that the scope is in line with the customers’ expectations.
• Ensure that the project remains within the scope of contractually agreed deliverables.
• Follow governance and the Project Change Request (PCR) process when scope changes occur.
• Create a Project Schedule to track the progress of the project.
• Keep the project within the contractually agreed timeframe.
• Monitor and report any baseline changes to the schedule. (PCR)
• Monitor and keep track of all costs incurred during the project roll-out.
• Responsible for Stakeholder management and communication.
• This includes regular meetings with the customer where required, ensuring minutes of meetings are sent, escalation procedures are followed, reporting to management, general liaison with customer project team, and all other project stakeholders.
• Management of all resources within the project
• Creating all project relevant documentation.
• Ensuring all necessary documents and designs are signed and accepted by the client.
• Ensure that all documents are saved on the PMO central repository.
• The Project Manager provides for acceptance of the project by the project sponsor, completion of various project records, final revision and issue of documentation to reflect the “as-built” condition and the retention of essential project documentation, and uploading all relevant documentation as required to ensure that the solution can be easily supported by Operations.
• Responsible for keeping the PMO up-to-date on the progress of projects.
• Including portfolio management

Additional Information:

• Excellent communication skills
• Possesses leadership qualities
• The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Good problem-solving skills
• Good judgment skills
• Excellent admin skills
• Extremely driven and goal orientated
• Detail orientated
• The ability to be a part of a team while taking a leadership role

JOB SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

• Understands and integrates appropriate project management tools and processes
• Applies/obtains the necessary requisite subject matter expertise (SME)
• Ability to continue to monitor, learn, and implement industry best practices from the agile community.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, with the ability to inspire, influence, and update delivery teams and senior executives.
• Excellent facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills help the team manage conflicts, challenges, escalating only when team processes have failed.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and working in fluid, fast-changing environments under pressure.
• A strong grounding in traditional project management practices.
• Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes. Understanding of both the current Information Technology and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Matric
• 8 years relevant experience of which at least three years needs to be working with agile teams.
• Project Management Diploma / Certifications: PMP /Agile/Scrum Master/ Prince 2 or the like ITIL v2 or v3 Foundation Certification or an overview or understanding thereof MS Projects, Jira and/or Confluence an advantage. Experience dealing with clients at all levels.
• Experience leading teams using agile methodologies in large-scale teams.
• Experiences working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD. Certifications in traditional Project Management practices, e.g., Agile preferred.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS

• Exceptional team management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to delegate efficiently.
• Diplomacy and Patience
• People Skills
• Listening