Senior Project Manager - Contract - North Johannesburg
ur Client a Global Tech firm is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join their team in Rosebank on a contract basis in Rosebank (Candidate must be able to commence immediately). The successful candidate will be required to work 4 days a week onsite and 1 day remote.
The role of Senior Manager, Project Portfolio plays a critical role in overseeing the client implementation complex project portfolio, including the optimisation of resource allocation, managing risks, and driving successful project execution.
This is a people management role responsible for leading and supporting a client implementation project team(s) to achieve their goals and deliver optimal results.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Manage project initiation by developing and ensuring the project charter approval, identify and engage stakeholders.
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including plans, schedules, reports, and meeting minutes. Ensure that all project documentation is accurate and up-to-date in the PMO Toolset as well as project folders.
- Identifying, managing, and communicating changes (risks, issues, actions and decisions) that may affect the project
- Able to problem solve and conflict manage situations that may arise on the project
- Managing project team members by delegating tasks and setting expectations for performance
- Monitoring resource allocation, timelines, and other key metrics to ensure project milestones are met
- Facilitating meetings with stakeholders to ensure effective communication about projects
- Monitoring and controlling work input and scope to ensure that all projects remain on track and in control
- Ensuring the projects and activities are executed in the most efficient and agile way based on agreed company methodologies, tools, and processes
- Planning and managing program stakeholders, scope, activities, conflict resolution, and approach in and across a highly matrixed global organization through direct interaction and communication, regular status reports and personally managing escalations, when necessary
- Report on financial progress on the project, control variances and ensure approvals
- Following the change methodology, participate, facilitate, drive the deliverables and manage feedback with the senior leadership on the project to ensure successful adoption.
Change Management (LeadParticipate if required)
- Apply a structured methodology (ADKAR, PROSCII) and lead change management activities
- Leverage a change management methodology, process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
- Support communication efforts
- Enable the design, development, delivery and management of key communications.
- Assess the change impact and stakeholder analysis
- Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders.
- Support training efforts
- Provide input, document requirements, and support the design and delivery of training programs.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business or Project Management or related
- PMP certification or equivalent is essential
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