Lead (Senior) Project Manager

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa eSoft Development and Technologies Full time

The Lead Project Manager is responsible to lead complex projects, characterized by carrying high levels of risk, having significant business impact and or involving multiple stakeholders.
- The Lead Project Manager is overall accountable for the multiple streams within the project. Deliver the expected project objectives on IT projects, whilst managing time and cost within the agreed constraints.
- It is leading the planning process, working with internal and external clients, specialists, consultants and suppliers to organise the project from initial planning and set-up through to successful delivery, using the agreed PMO methodologies, principles, standards and processes.

**What you will do?**
- Support Program Manager by delivering the committed program of IT projects on time, to scope and within budget, within the agreed constraints
- Assuring governance and quality of the project including adoption of PMO methodologies, principles, standards and processes across the IT portfolio
- Focus areas include
- Support business case development
- Lead project planning (project charter and project schedule)
- Execute within the agreed governance structures
- Progress monitoring and control
- Cost management
- Risk and issue management
- Accurate and timeous project status reporting
- Stakeholder management
- Change control
- Project closure through effective project governance

**Key attributes and competencies**
- **Technical Project management skills**:

- PMBOK / Prince 2 or equivalent
- **Excellent communication and interpersonal **skills
- to keep all players co-ordinated on project delivery and achieving business benefits
- **Financial acumen**:

- to support business case development and budget control
- **Cross skilled **in Infrastructure, Business Transformation and Software projects

**Experience**
- 6-8+ years of project management experience

**What you will be measured on?**
- % of projects delivered on time, scope and budget
- Business Satisfaction Score %
- Adoption of project portfolio and service development methodologies
- Project quality improvement %
- % SLA met

**Job Type**: Temporary
Contract length: 6 months

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Project Management: 6 years (preferred)


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