Location:Cape Town, South Africa
Salary:Market Related
Recruiter:Oceana Group
Job Ref:NN#10
Summary:Responsible for delivering and managing a portfolio of complex IT projects across different geograph
Job Description
Purpose of the role
Responsible for delivering and managing a portfolio of complex IT projects across different geographies, on time, within budget, ensuring all the objectives and quality standards of the project are met.
Key Responsibilities
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Full project lifecycle ownership from initiation to deployment
Set and continually manage project plans and expectations - develop statements of Work and appropriate specifications
Report on project status, milestones and success criteria - analyse and troubleshoot problem areas.
Ensuring that the delivery of new products or services from Projects is to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the Programme plan
Work creatively and analytically to solve problems demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
Work across teams to prepare estimates and detailed project plans
Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives
Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships for the company
Manage day-to-day project activities and resources and chair project meetings
Oversee project budgets
Demonstrate a functional acumen to support how solutions will address client goals
Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues
Continue professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods and best practices used in project management
To implement project products and services without any adverse impact to business processes
To ensure all project acceptance criteria are met and gain sign-off and approval for all project deliverables, including the formal close of the project
To manage inter-project and/ or inter-program dependencies
To ensure all business and IT transition activities are catered for and performed, e.g. acceptance testing, training, change management and post-implementation support and IT service and solution transition to operational support teams
To ensure alignment of appropriate solution architecture with business strategy
Managing of applications/systems
COST MANAGEMENT
Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs
Report and escalate to management as needed
RISK MANAGEMENT
Perform risk management to minimize project risks
Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
Ensuring that the delivery of new products or services from Projects is in accordance with the Programme governance arrangements
To implement project products and services without any adverse impact to business processes
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
Set and continually manage project expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members / stakeholders / Customers
Develop trusted advisor relationship with internal and external customers
Identify new opportunities to help customers solve their business problems
To ensure optimum resource management and motivation of project staff
Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:
Ability to resolve problems in a timely manner
Ability to communicate technical information and ideas
Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
Skilled at leading and coordinating across diverse teams to achieve desired
outcomes
Ability to define and allocate project tasks, resources and timelines
Ability to identify possible risks and issues and resultant mitigation actions
Ability to manage multiple projects
Ability to determine the scope of new projects
Ability to establish credibility and influence key stakeholders at all levels
Excellent client-facing and internal & external communication skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Qualifications and experience
Bachelor''s Degree in appropriate field of study
Project Management Certification
At least 7+ years relevant experience in delivering large/complex IT projects
Technology background with early career- hands on technical experience
Experience helping organisations migrate to, build on and optimize their Cloud technology through advisory, delivery planning and implementation
Technical/conversational knowledge and track record in delivery of projects in some or all of the following areas:Application development (SDLC)
SAP related projects across all functional modules
SAP Implementation
Business Intelligence (SAP BW, PowerBI)
Microsoft Azure & Office 365
Virtualisation / cloud platforms
Datacentre strategy and operations
Backup, storage and disaster recovery
UC & Networking
Security
Good understanding of PMBOK/Prince 2 principles and methodologies
Experience in Agile software development methodologies i.e. Waterfall, Scrum
Must have a background in business skills, management, budgeting and analy
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