Project Manager: Blunova

**About Company**

We are a JSE-listed company selling innovative mobile commerce technology to emerging South Africa and abroad markets. Our users are rich, poor, urban and rural, and we allow them all to interact and transact on an equal footing. We target many of our services to people who do not have easy access to bank accounts, and we allow them the convenience of being able to transact where and when they want to. At Blue Label Telecoms, we’re looking for outliers. People who have a drive to better themselves, their teams and the business with every decision and interaction. We have built an organisation that recognises achievements and celebrates successes. We thrive on collaboration and offer our team members excellent work environments where enjoyment is a part of the experience.

**Job Purpose**

The Project Manager at BluNova will be responsible for managing multiple projects within a portfolio and, in some instances, multiple portfolios. They’re responsible for the outcome and successful delivery of multiple projects with a critical focus on the broader view. The Project Manager needs to mitigate any project risk as it arises. The Project Manager will work with multiple Business Owners spanning multiple disciplines. The Project Manager will deal with strategic tasks, aligning them to the organization's business strategy and strategic goals.

**Responsibilities**

**Project Management**
- Facilitate the delivery of the BluNova Strategy both in BluNova and relevant business partners
- Oversee the achievement and risk “blockers” related to product deliveries
- Partner with management to develop and review lean business cases
- Ensure project governance processes and decisions are applied consistently
- Provide input to budgeting process per project portfolio
- Ensure full adoption of JIRA, Confluence and other designated tools
- Work closely with Infrastructure, Systems Architecture, Product Owners
- Development Teams, IT Operations Manager and other stakeholders to facilitate delivery and remove impediments
- Assume the Scrum Master role for selected projects to deliver as per the requirement
- Enable, support and accelerate the transition from Waterfall to Agile (Scrum, Kanban) or any software development methodology elected by the BluNova team
- Drive high quality all project deliverables
- Managing customer expectations for project deliverables
- Managing stakeholder communications
- Implement an effective system of project governance
- Supporting and educating the Business Delivery and IT Operations Manager, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog

**Process Management**
- Define and manage a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Project Management
- Coaching the team on software development methods and technical and operational practices
- Facilitating key agile ceremonies
- Managing software development methods such as Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP, LSD and FDD
- Build competency within the Decisioning and Capabilities teams by developing project metrics
- Provide leadership with meaningful performance metrics and status reports based on JIRA dashboards
- Identify risks proactively, drive timely mitigation, and escalate to management appropriately define and manage

**Project Planning**
- Define project scopes with Business Stakeholders
- Lead project status and working meetings
- Manage risks and issues
- Correct deviations from plans
- Provide input into delivery planning for assigned projects

**Leadership**
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the BluNova team
- Coaching the BluNova team to higher maturity levels at a sustainable and comfortable pace for the team and organisation
- Role model behaviour and motivate team members in line with the core values

**Work collaborations**
- Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from an effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop joint solutions
- Collaborate with other leaders to deliver a superior end to end customer experience
- Provide the required information to the relevant teams to ensure effective delivery of initiatives
- Strive to ensure deadlines are met, and deviations are managed as prescribed by the ways of work

**Data Gathering and, Curation**
- Source and motivate for new data and/or features (both within and external to partner companies) that may be required to deliver DaaS or modelling requirements
- Assess new data sources' effectiveness and accuracy and ensure they are appropriate for the BluNova environment
- Describe and motivate changes in data requirements for the data engineer and/or data scientist to include in the pipeline

**Behavioural Compet