Senior Project Manager: IT

SUMMARY:
Responsible for delivering and managing a portfolio of complex IT projects across different geograph

POSITION INFO:

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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