Programme Manager - Cape Town City Centre
Are you a seasoned Programme Manager looking for your next challenge? We're seeking an exceptional individual to oversee the delivery of strategic programs and initiatives. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work with cross-functional teams, drive innovation, and deliver impactful results for our organization and clients.
What you’ll do:
- Programme Management: Lead and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of multiple projects, ensuring timely delivery and specified quality outcomes.
- Benefits Management: Ensure that the Business Case ROI remains relevant and updated. Forecast and track benefit(s), ensuring that epic delivery is linked to the company OKRs.
- Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams, providing guidance, motivation, and support to ensure collaboration and achievement of epics. Ensure that the team is aligned and focused on outcomes.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and maintain effective relationships and communication with stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are understood, managed, and addressed.
- Budget Management: Manage program budgets, perform accurate forecasting, track expenses, and ensure that the allocated budget is utilized effectively and efficiently.
- Risk Issue Management: Identify potential risks and issues and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful program delivery.
- Quality Assurance: Implement and monitor quality control measures to guarantee the delivery of high-quality outcomes.
- Reporting and Documentation: Prepare high-quality reports, documentation, and presentations as required for relevant meetings, forums, and stakeholders.
- Dependency Management: Identifies dependencies and inter-dependencies between programs/projects and actively manages these.
- Continuous Improvement: Evaluate program effectiveness, identify areas for improvement, and implement enhancements to optimize outcomes.
- Capacity management: Ensure adequate capacity for the required Epic delivery.
- Vendor Management: May be required to manage 3rd party vendors together with their respective service delivery and standards.
- Operational Business readiness: Ensures that all organizational elements of the program are addressed, integrated, and handed over to the relevant Business Owner.
Your Expertise:
- Relevant Agile certification.
- 5+ years’ experience in people leadership of a medium to large team.
- 5+ years’ experience in Programme Management.
- 3+ years’ working experience in an Agile or SAFe environment.
Qualifications Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree or relevant tertiary qualification.
- Relevant Project Management certification.
Personal Attributes:
- Essential: Familiarity with both traditional and agile project management tools and frameworks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to comprehend information in verbal and written communication.
- Ability to operate in a highly pressured and ambiguous environment.
- Ability to build and maintain a healthy, collaborative, and productive team culture.
- Exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills to foster collaboration across teams.
- Strong leadership and team management abilities, with the capacity to inspire and motivate teams toward common goals.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment.
Other information applicable to the opportunity:
- Contract Position
- Location: Cape Town (Hybrid)
Why work for us?
- At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology we are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies. 
- Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft. 
- By joining IOCO you will have an open invitation, a place where you will be able to connect and learn from your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions. 
- We encourage diversity and work culture, and Setting U up for Success! #SuuS
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