Strategic Programme Manager at Juru Holdings

Job Description:

• Programme conceptualisation and business case formulation.
• Strong Customer Servicing/Operations, Technology (Automation), Business and commercial experience.
• Effective financial management acumen at a programme level
• Excellent understanding of Programme and Portfolio Governance structures in large organisations preferably financial services.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and CXO groups to ensure the programme achieves its objectives.
• Ability to analyse and synthesise business strategy/objectives and requirements with programme deliverables and support.
• Strategic stakeholder management planning and engagement approaches
• Strategic Risk management: planning,
• Excellent understanding and use of project management methodologies, techniques, tools, systems and templates e.g. Agile (JIRA and JIRA Align), MS Project, Gantt charts, dashboards and PPT
• Efficient Resource Management
• Vendor and supplier management
• Procurement governance
• Change management.
• Change controls management.
• Enterprise and Project governance
• Quality control management
• Performance Management and coaching
• Ability to lead a team to achieve goals.
• Chairing and facilitate meetings.
• Business operating models
• Opportunity identification and management

Minimum Qualifications/Experience

• Minimum: 3-year Tertiary Qualification (Degree); 8-15 years’ experience and relevant technical qualification
• Preferably: 8 years+ strategic Programme Management experience, Recognised Programme Management accreditation/ qualification and Agile certifications
• Senior management/leadership experience
• 8 – 10 years’ experience in project/software delivery.
• Familiarity and experience in Agile/Scrum/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Knowledge of Kanban/Lean desirable.
• Knowledge and experience in using tracking and collaboration tools such as Jira and Miro.
• Knowledge and experience with typically used Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, etc.

Competencies Required

• Strategic: Can understand, identify, and acts on broader opportunities to drive longer term, value-adding change. Applies judgment effectively. Identifies and acts on market and/or competitor trends/opportunities
• Technical competency: the knowledge and abilities required to apply technical principles
• Executing: Displays consistent energy, drive, and perseverance to deliver results. Demonstrates a willingness to take calculated risks to achieve stretch performance goals.
• Customer: Putting the customer at the heart of business decisions and driving to improve value for customers.
• Leading with Influence: Influences and rallies people behind common goals; actively supports growth and inspires others to exceed expectations. Communicates clear strategies and objectives for own function.
• Collaboration: Creates trust, respect and builds meaningful relationships. Able to handle a wide range of relational challenges to ensure collaboration across boundaries.
• Innovation: Generates creative/out of the box solutions. Challenges the status quo and/or demonstrates ability to relate to challenges from a range of diverse but willing to take calculated risks when introducing novel ideas.
• Delivery: responsible for achieving outcomes and documenting plans
• Personal Mastery: Learns and actively works to build self-awareness; develop through experience and feedback from others. Copes effectively with stress and has the resilience to take on stretching and challenging assignments. Adjusts effectively to work within new work structures; processes; requirements and cultures.