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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