Lead: IT Project Delivery Africa

7 months ago


Kempton Park, South Africa DHL Full time

**BE PART OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST LOGISTICS COMPANY**

Deutsche Post DHL Group is the world’s leading logistics and mail company.

We’re one of the world’s largest employers, operating in over 220 countries and territories. We’re Europe’s largest postal service, partner for eCommerce and pioneers in secure digital communication. We’re number one in contract logistics and international express delivery, and a leader in the forwarding business.

Join us and you’ll be working for a global company that’s focused on service, quality, and sustainability, and using the power of global trade to connect people and improve lives.

And not just for our customers, but for every member of our Group too.

**At DHL Supply Chain South Africa, we’re looking for**

**Vacancy**

Lead: IT Project Delivery Africa (DSC ZA Head Office)

**Job Purpose**

The IT Project Manager (IT PM) is responsible for managing IT projects or the IT part of business projects. This means that she/he is responsible, in particular, for delivering the agreed scope in the agreed time, in the agreed quality, and at the agreed costs, as well as for ensuring that IT provides optimal support to the overall project manager with the aim of supporting the business in the best possible way.

IT Project Management role profiles follow the 5 career levels of the standard Deutsche Post DHL Project Management role templates. This role profile describes career level 5: Drive the project management function and govern the project management methodology to ensure successful project delivery

**Key areas of responsibility include**:

- Prepare project schedules and perform project tracking and reporting
- Identify when actual performance deviates from agreed tolerances and escalate issues as necessary
- Ensure that project team members are kept informed of progress, and stay aligned to the project goals
- Ensure that all required project documentation is completed and up to date
- Coordinate communications plan
- Project delivered on time, on budget, within scope and within agreed quality standards- Coordinate project schedules by compiling tasks, costs, timescales, and resource requirement lists from key project participants indicating start and completion dates, responsibilities and dependencies
- Perform progress tracking and reporting of issues
- Document scope changes and track approval by required parties to ensure benefit realisation
- Track performance against the budget and report any variances
- Report project progress to all stakeholders and support the production of a well structured
- communications plan
- Perform progress tracking and reporting of risks and mitigation plans and communicate progress
- Ensure that all required project documentation is completed to quality standards, kept up to date, available throughout the project and maintained in the project database- Support the review of project performance against the business case and track action plans to ensure benefit realisation
- Compliance to health and safety standards
- Review previous lessons learnt output and feedback to drive continuous improvement
- Compile and track project resource timesheets
- Support the project team on the DePICT project management methodology and tools

**Qualifications**
- Grade 12 / Matric - Essential
- Relevant Degree (Desirable)

**Competencies**
- Making Customers More Successful - Individual Contributor
- Shaping Direction - Individual Contributor
- Driving High Performance - Individual Contributor
- Developing Others - Individual Contributor
- Developing Self - Individual Contributor
- Project Management, Planning & Organizing
- Project Management Tools & Methodologies
- Project Risk Management
- Project Management Communication
- Change Management
- Managing Project Stakeholders

**Skills/Experience**
- 1-5 years’ experience in logistics or other fast-paced sectors
- Understanding of complex logistics operations and processes, ideally in one or more DHL core sectors (desirable)
- Knowledge of the DHL Supply Chain organization and/or experience in other divisions (desirable)
- Good communication, negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to relate to all levels of staff and management- Results-oriented and driven by goal achievement with a strong focus on high quality delivery performance
- Understanding of business principles and language, including working knowledge of finance and profitability
- Ability to work independently in a complex environment, set the right priorities and self-motivate

**Languages**

English - verbal and written.



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