Specialist: Project Management (STANLIB) at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

As a Specialist Project Manager you will be responsible for advising and providing support in project management. Develop, maintain and enhance operational business relationships, through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively contribute to the effective delivery of project tasks according to allocated duties and project plan and escalate identified risks.
• Provide business support through subject matter knowledge and work area experience to enhance operational service delivery and quality.
• Gather information to inform reporting on relevant metrics and trends to inform pricing and other operational decisions and/or remedial actions.
• Analyse operational records, trends and costs related to estimated and realised revenues to project future revenues and expenses.
• Coordinate project planning activities through the preparation of resource scheduling, physical planning, monitoring and control of project design.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Analyse data to identify possible areas for improved operations and optimised work schedules and make practically implementable recommendations.
• Collect information for project tracking and status reporting according to defined project reporting standards.
• Accountable for the execution of specialised work including the improvement of quality, standards and outputs within defined work routines and operating procedures.
• Proactively solves problems, determines root-cause and applies solutions in line with guidelines and providing the necessary information to solve problems related to area of specialisation.
• Plan for own task execution and advises on improvements related to area of specialisation.

Minimum Experience

• 3  - 5 years  working experience in IT Asset Management environment.
• +5 years of experience in successfully implementing IT Asset Management solutions
• Experience in both Hybrid and Agile methodologies.
• Experience in Scrum Master (SAFE will be advantageous).
• Experience in Agile implementation (SAFE Framework)
• Experience within Financial Services.
• Experience in managing multiple projects.
• Working experience with Project Management tool set.
• Management of project teams including internal communications and vendor management.
• Exposure to Office 3653, Jira, and Azure DevOps will be advantageous.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Project Management.
• Project Management certification is preferred (PgMP, or equivalent), Program Management certification is advantageous.
• Agile Practitioner certification an asset (PMI-ACP or equivalent).