Project Manager: Digital Distribution
2 weeks ago
What will you do?
This career opportunity is available at SHA Risk Specialists a division of Santam for a Project Manager: Digital Distribution, who will be based in Johannesburg: Illovo. What will make you successful in this role?
Project Management
Deep understanding of project management methods, techniques and tools.
Deep understanding of agile ways of working, techniques and tools.
Deep understanding of the system development lifecycle and frameworks for business solution delivery. Incudes waterfall, iterative and agile methods.
Understands architectural considerations in order to effectively factor them into planning, decisions and recommendations and to effectively communicate.
Familiarity with change management disciplines including stakeholder management, communication and business readiness.
Ability to identify project implications based on an understanding of systems, processes and business.
**Sprints**:
Prepare for and manage scheduling of regular meetings such as Sprint Review, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives and Project Retrospectives.
Calculates sprint point and allocation over upcoming sprints.
Manages developers sprint tasks & velocity.
Reviews stand-up feedback and actions blockers &
dragging tasks.
Estimating and/or sizing of work collaboratively
Iteration and frequent releasing of production-ready code
Identify and escalate potential team issues
Project Definition, Inception and Kick-off (kick-off sessions; definition of charter; facilitate definition of requirements and user stories).
Project Planning (scoping, conceptual sprint planning and development; project and work stream definition; sizing and estimating; sprint, release and milestone management).
Project Financial and Cost management (accurate budgeting, actuals tracking, forecast projections, monitoring and control of expenses, invoicing and payment).
Project Time and Cost management (budget definition, monitoring and control; time recording and costing; Invoicing and payments; cost containment).
Managing Project Scope (understanding project scope and product backlog; monitoring scope).
Project level Risk, Issue and Decision management (including Dependency management and escalation).
Business to Business Liaison
Communicate resourcing and timelines with business head regularly
Manage Business Head’s expectations around delivery
Work with our suppliers and partners to ensure that timelines are adequately met and that budget is utilised appropriately.
Ensure requirements are fleshed out from client BA and liaise with development
team.
Assist with Business case for Business Head
Identifying opportunities for growth and escalating to the Business Head
Manage change in accordance with the change control process. What will make you successful in this role?
General Administration
Project Reporting (reporting on status, financials, schedule, risk, blockers and issues, quality; reporting on metrics including burn up/down charts, team velocity; updating Agile/PMC reporting and management tools).
Defining and implementing the project’s Governance framework (review and sign-offs, decision-making, steerco management, change control and content review, management of tolerances, closure and lessons learned).
Quality Management (ensuring projects deliverables meet the requirements and the appropriate quality. Includes ceremonies such as: team retrospectives, attending Scrum-of-Scrum sessions, managing dependencies, blockers/ impediments and resourcing).
Project Success management (agree and regularly review project measures of success ensuring projects deliverables meet the programme requirements and the appropriate quality).
Support implementation of the Agile way of working. Adherence to the Agile framework, governance, standards for reporting and Tools (JIRA, Confluence). Qualification and Experience
**Minimum**: Bachelor’s Degree
**Ideal**: BSci Computer Science plus Scrum master certification
Preferably 5 years + relevant experience in Software development/ asset management/ insurance / digital agency Knowledge and Skills
Project Management Process
Agile process and principles
Forecasts, budgets and billing
Value proposition
Business case development
Coaching
Administrative skills
Analysis and judgement
Attention to detail
Client orientation
Communication Skills including negotiation
Initiative
Leadership
Strategic thinking
Managing and delegating work to team members
Planning and budgeting
Teamwork Core Competencies Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently Customer focus - Contributing independently Drives results - Contributing independently Collaborates - Contributing independently Being resilient - Contributing independently About The Company
Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.
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