Senior Project Manager
Boardroom Appointments
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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.
- Proficiency in project management methodology, tools, and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)
- Formidable team working skills across matrixed client, supplier, and geographically dispersed virtual teams
- Instrumental in the use of IT methodologies, processes, and standards for project management
- More than 5yrs experience in project governance and working with a PMO environment
- Experience in participating or driving change management as part of the project
- Communicating with Senior stakeholders (Steercoms, Status reporting, Weekly meetings)