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project management governance framework

Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Cape Town/Johannesburg

Job Summary:
Duties & Responsibilities:
Manage delivery of multiple projects within the aYo Business Development Programme on time, on budget and to the quality and specifications agreed.
• Develop detailed and comprehensive project plans which identify and sequence all the activities and associated timelines needed to successfully complete the project within agreed time frames.
• Create project structures and environments where the teams can be mobilised and energised to ensure close collaboration and innovation, across all our partners, vendors and multidisciplinary teams.
• Ensures all projects are resourced appropriately across all delivery streams (incl. Commercial, Product (incl. GTM), Organisation Design and IT)
• Contribute to enabling an agile cross-functional way of work while maintaining and building the aYo culture
• Ensure business cases, plans and all related project documentation and reports are of highest possible standard.
• Managing the project’s budget on behalf of Sponsor, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses
• Identify risks and collaborate with stakeholders to manage the mitigation of risks.
• Facilitate channels of communication that monitor and feedback project progress and deliver reports that reflect the progress of the project.
• Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme – focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate, technical and specialist standards
• Manage the project close out and the assessment of project effectiveness in order to make recommendations to improve project impact.
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects

Managing risks to the project’s successful outcome
• Working with OpCo and Ops teams to transition to the new business as usual position
• Initiating extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the programme are identified or issues arise
• Contribute to operational objectives and optimisation through application of project learning and by contributing information and recommendations to partner engagement, product development and performance reviews.

Desired Experience & Qualification:
BSC IT or BCom, MBA or some leadership type program advantageous.
• PM certification advantageous (PMP or Prince)

Package & Remuneration:
1.1m

Interested?
• 5+ years of experience within a Project Manager role, at least 3 years on large transformation programmes – i.e. Customer Value Management, Product incl. GTM or IT Technology projects Experience in the financial services or telecommunication industry will be an advantage.
• Must have managed projects across multiple countries – Culture, Language and Time Zone.
• Decision Making & Stakeholder engagement – at Senior Management and Executive level.
• Must be willing to travel to the Rest of Africa countries.
• Strategic consideration
• Delivery Excellence
• Commercially Astute
• Customer First
• Innovative
• Collaborative
• Personal Mastery
• Leading Change

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