An exciting opportunity is available for a Project Manager within a Retail focussed IT company based in Cape Town.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget
- Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders
- Ensure resource availability and allocation
- Develop and maintain detailed plan to track progress
- Provide timeline and budget reports to Clients
- Manage key deliverables/tasks with internal team
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
- Manage operational activities, including user requests and system improvements
- Manage several projects concurrently (multi-tasking)
- Provide day-to-day customer liaison and be responsible for relationship management, project management and delivery
- Manage pipeline of multiple complex projects and work streams, ensuring teams are working to fully agreed resource allocation levels
- In conjunction with the associated senior staff, cross functional management of a teams of developers, testers, and business analysts involved in developing and maintaining processes for efficient delivery of software to customers
- Manage delivery of change through the Agile scrum processes
- Coach the team to effectively apply Agile methodologies
- Escalate commercial issues, where appropriate, including potential business opportunities
- Prepare internal and customer reports
- Identify and manage risks
- Collaborate with other Project Managers, exchanging ideas, working on improvements of process both within the immediate team and across the company
- Financial management, including project creation, time tracking and month-end processes to support the finance department
Requirements:
- Matric
- Formal Tertiary Qualification
- Certified Scrum Master
- PMP/PRINCE II experience/certification
- Experienced using JIRA for Scrum and Kanban boards
- At least 10 years work experience in the Industry
- At least 5 years work experience in an IT Project Manager role
- Proven experience in project/task management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Be well organized and understand the product development process
- Experience in the listed responsibility areas will be to your advantage
- Strong experience in a fast-paced software development environment with proven use of
- Agile (scrum) development and knowledge of waterfall methodologies
- Proven experience running large or multiple scrum teams
- Proven experience managing project budgets
- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail, with a desire to drive continuous improvement through the project lifecycle
- Excellent people management skills and the ability to demonstrate stakeholder management responsibilities.
- Good communication skills both written and spoken
- Must have experience managing multiple projects in parallel
- Ability to take on all circumstances (even unfavourable ones) and recommend plausible solution(s) to facilitate stakeholder decisions
- Ability to take a wider team view and manage accordingly
- Flexibility and the ability to respond to rapidly changing situations
- Rigorous attention to detail
- The desire to drive continuous improvement
Salary: Market Related
Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- Prince II
- PMP
- Jira
- Scrum
- Agile
- Kanban
- Waterfall methodologies
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years IT Project Administration / Management
Desired Qualification Level:
- Degree