Senior Agile Project Manager

7 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant**
- REQ 131631 Thembi Mtshali- Job Family- Project, Process and Product, Group Technology- Career Stream- Projects
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional
- FAIS Affected**Job Purpose**
- To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy.**Responsibilities**:

- To manage the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing; directing and controlling of all aspects of projects/solutions or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation to realize the business strategy. Escalates impediments, manages risk, helps assure value delivery and helps drive continuous improvement. Hybrid role that balances Agile leadership and project/program management to help software development teams build and deliver solutions more efficiently. Leveraging the solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges associated with facilitating and continuously aligning large development programs.- Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals.
- Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
- 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 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 status reports as drivers
- Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
- Ensure project budget are managed within project scope.
- Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations..
- Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule. Meet project requirements.
- Manage project priorities effectively and ensured dependencies are catered for according to the project scope.
- Ensure professional advice accepted and implemented.
- Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in project, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan. Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a non-technical 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.
- Align roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood..
- Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
- Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology.
- Conduct effective resource negotiation and allocation.
- Preferred Qualification- Professional Qualification/Honours Degree
- Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification
- Essential Certification- PMP or Prince certification. Programme Management certification (PGMP)
- Agile certified
- SAFe certified
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
- Minimum Experience Level- 10 years experience working in a project environment of large project and or programmes of which 3-5 years management

**Types of exposures**
- SAP Project Implementation experience is essential
- HR domain knowledge will be advantageous
- Planning and Organising
- Influencing
- Decision Making
- Work Standards
- Applied learning
- Customer Orientation
- Earning Trust
- Built a high-performance culture
- Built and maintained stakeholder relationship
- Designed Workforce Planning Solutions
- Improved Processes and Culture
- Managed Relationships
- Managed Self and Team
- Managed budget

**Technical / Professional Kowledge**
- MS Project
- JIRA and Confluence
- Risk Management
- Decision-making process
- Financial management
- Industry trends
- Project management principles and, methodologies
- Agile Methodologies
- Facilitation and report writing and Communication Skills
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Behavioural Competencies- Decision Making
- Influencing
- Planning and Organizing
- Work Standards
- Applied Learning
- Customer



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