Project Manager

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time
Job Family- Project, Process and Product

  • Career Stream
  • Projects


Leadership Pipeline
  • Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

  • To plan, direct and coordinate the activities of enterprisewide projects, Wealth Management projects and/or all other team deliverables to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans/ team roadmaps, specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy. The Agile Project Manager will also monitor and report on project and team deliverable progress, run agile ceremonies, and provide mentorship and coaching on agile best practices.
The Agile Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team
Responsibilities:

  • Ensure successful implementation of Agile in projects and all other team workstreams as per the backlog with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals.
  • Provide expert level guidance to the team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions.
  • Coach the team in terms of Agile and SAFe practices.
  • Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
  • Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups, including vendors, to deliver across a spectrum of wants and needs
  • Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project/team status reports as drivers
  • Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and scope.
  • Ensure project budget are managed within scope.
  • Ensure work are delivered on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
  • Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
  • Ensure management of scope, including coverage of client requirements, are created based on estimations.
  • Manage delivery of team work against agreed schedule. Meet project requirements.
  • Manage team priorities effectively and ensured dependencies are catered for according to the project scope.
  • Ensure professional advice accepted and implemented.
  • Identify relevant stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in project/squad, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan/team PI cycles.
  • Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multilevel stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a nontechnical language
  • Ensure each stakeholder group is actively managed through the change cycle.
  • Ensure business change impact is conducted across process, systems, and technology in accordance with change management plan.
  • Ensure that testing is managed and conducted as per a testing plan.
  • Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood.
  • Ensure clients are informed.
  • Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client.
  • Ensure effective pre PI Planning and PI planning takes place for the squad
  • Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
  • Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope.
  • Ensure sufficient resource allocations.
  • Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology and other team workstreams as per the governance models.
  • Conduct effective resource negotiation and allocation.
  • Essential Qualifications
  • NQF Level
  • Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
  • Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree


Preferred Qualification
  • Project Management
  • Essential Certifications
  • PMP or Prince certification. Programme Management certification (PGMP)


Preferred Certifications
  • Project Management
or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification
  • Minimum Experience Level 810 years experience working in a project environment of which 23 years working with medium to high complexity projects

Technical / Professional Knowledge

  • Relevant regulatory knowledge
  • Industry trends
  • Relevant software and systems knowledge
  • Research methodology
  • Principles of financial management
  • Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
  • Principles of project management
  • Communication Strategies
  • Decisionmaking process
  • Governance, Risk and Controls


Behavioural Competencies
  • Decision Making
  • Influencing
  • Planning and Organizing
  • Work Standards
  • Applied Learning
  • Customer Orientation
  • Earning Tr

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