PMO Planner

1 week ago


Paarl, South Africa H2R Africa Full time

Our client, based in Paarl, Western Cape, is a global leader in convenient foods and beverages, and is a major player in the FMCG industry has a contract vacancy for 12 months with the possibility of renewal for a PMO Planner. The position is Office based/Hybrid (2 - 3 days a week)

The purpose of the role is to plan and monitor the programme and its constituent projects to ensure it remains on track

**PLEASE NOTE ONLY SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED. ONLY APPLY IF YOU QUALIFY IN FULL**

At least 5 years experience in a similar planning role
Previous direct involvement in a SAP Transformation project
FMCG experience.

A project management qualification
Certification in Agile
Certification as a PMI scheduling professional (PMI-SP)
- MS Office Suite
- MS Projects
- MS SharePoint
- Azure DevOps
- Clarity PPM Software
- Zoom Platform
- Define planning standards for the programme to enable ease of roll-up of milestone data and dependencies
- Facilitate the design and development of project and workstream plans, providing estimating support, ensuring that all milestones, internal and external dependencies are identified, logged and monitored
- Ensure all plans include activities, time and resource estimates for risk mitigation
- Ensure quality review and deliverable acceptance activities and associated time have been allocated realistically
- Develop and maintain the overall programme plan
- Establish and operate mechanisms to track delivery against the programme plan and regularly update progress against the plan
- Identify and analyse interfaces and dependencies between projects and recommend appropriate actions where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern
- Develop milestone and dependency charts to create visibility for the team
- Track and maintain dependencies
- Advise on missed milestones, missed dependencies and assess the impact
- Report deviations and/or changes to the original plan that can lead to serious delays and budget overruns
- Monitor planning assumptions and take appropriate action where assumptions do not hold true
- Advanced proficiency in MS Projects able to plan and schedule multiple projects that roll-up into a master programme schedule
- Good interviewing and listening skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good networking skills
- Good analytical skills
- Good communication skills
- Team orientation
- Ability to establish and maintain a sense of discipline
- Self-starter, resourceful
- Self-confidence and influence
- Bias for action, drive

Attention to detail
Resilience


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