Senior Programme Manager: Strategic Partnership

3 months ago

Sandton, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

**Business Unit**:Discovery Health**Function**:Programme & Project Management (Non-Technical)**Date**:27 Aug 2024**About Discovery**
- Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.**Key Purpose**
- To supports the Chief Digital Officer on all digital programmes and operations across digital product teams. Ensuring projects are managed and executed effectively. Overall ownership of the Communication Plan including providing regular reporting to team, Executive level and Dashboard updates. Planning of company-wide comms to ensure that other indirect stakeholders are informed.**Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**

**Programme management** of the digital programme (across Health App and Health ID):
- Governance: Preparing for and facilitating Steercoms/alternative Governance forums: manage respective reporting of progress delivery and risks/issues and drive critical decisions
- Steercom/Status Pack (weekly)
- The Decision, Risk, and Issue log maintenance (weekly)
- Digital exco (monthly)
- programme scope/delivery: ensure integration across the programme streams as well as coordinated transition management.
- structured end-to-end roadmap planning those coordinates milestones / dependencies, addresses risks and ensures cohesive stakeholder management across the business.
- plan for overall change management
- ROI (Budget and benefits/value tracking): create targets/commitments across stakeholders (drive Impact Assessment per area); manage programme budget, including cost forecasts; measure programme engagement/impact/value (tracking of benefits of cross-journeys)
- Standardize quality Management Approach (e.g., approach to Changes, approach to monitoring and tracking, etc)

**Personal Attributes and Skills**
- Tenacity
- Manage Ambiguity
- Cultivate Innovation
- Drives results.
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
- Solid understanding of systems development life cycle
- Knowledge of Discovery Products and legacy systems environment
- Evangelist for progressive and fit for purpose Programme and Project Management and governance.

**Education and Experience**
- BSc. IT/Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent from a recognised University
- OR BCom Information Systems
- Seasoned professional with experience of business change, transformation, digital technology programmes or business side scope of product launch.
- At least 10 years’ experience of Project and digital Programme management
- Agile solution delivery experience
- Excellent communication skills (written/oral and presentation).
- Solid understanding of SDLC (traditional and agile), including phases, technical jargon, and artefacts (input and output).
- EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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