Intermediate Project Manager

**Listing reference**: adapt_000214

**Listing status**: Online

**Position summary**

**Industry**:IT & Internet

**Job category**:IT and Telecommunications

**Location**:Midrand

**Contract**:Permanent

**EE position**:No

**About our company**
- Adapt IT (Pty) Ltd is a subsidiary of Adapt IT Holdings Proprietary Limited and a market leader in developing specialised vertical market software and digitally-led business solutions that assist clients across targeted industries to Achieve More by improving their customer experience, core business operations, business administration and enterprise resource planning.

**Introduction**
- The Intermediate Project Manager is responsible for leading moderately complex software development and implementation projects across the organization. The role requires coordination of cross-functional teams, managing timelines, budgets, and scope, while ensuring successful delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.

**Job description**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Plan, coordinate, and manage software project activities from initiation to closure
- Create and maintain detailed project documentation including project plans, schedules, budgets, and status reports
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for seamless execution
- Manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques
- Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies
- Organize regular project review meetings with stakeholders and team members
- Monitor project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
- Ensure resource availability and allocation
- Communicate project progress and escalate issues when necessary

**Accountability**
- On-time and within-budget delivery of assigned projects
- Accuracy and timeliness of project reporting
- Stakeholder satisfaction and communication
- Proactive risk and issue management
- Compliance with organizational project management standards

**Minimum requirements**

**Must have Experience.**
- Project management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM) is required and must be valid and actively maintained.
- 3-5 years of project management experience in relevant industries.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall.
- Experience in the telecommunications or IT industry.
- Experience with Remote/Distributed Teams: Comfort working with hybrid or fully remote teams across different time zones.
- Multi-Project Handling: Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with interdependencies.

**Soft Skills Required.**
- Strong Communication Skills: Ability to convey ideas clearly to stakeholders, both verbally and in writing.
- Organizational Skills: Exceptional ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage competing deadlines effectively.
- Leadership & Influence: Capable of motivating cross-functional teams and guiding them toward a common goal without direct authority.
- Problem-Solving: Proactive in identifying issues and implementing effective solutions quickly.
- Adaptability: Comfortable navigating change, uncertainty, and shifting project scopes or business needs.
- Negotiation & Conflict Resolution: Skilled at balancing differing viewpoints and driving consensus in complex stakeholder environments.
- Time Management: Efficient at managing their own time and others’ to meet deliverables.
- Stakeholder Management: Able to build and maintain relationships with internal teams, external vendors, and customers.
- Attention to Detail: Precision in project documentation, risk assessments, and planning.

**Nice to have Experience.**
- Agile/Scrum Experience: Hands-on experience managing projects in Agile environments or certification in Scrum Master/Product Owner roles.
- Basic understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC), DevOps, or systems architecture.
- Tool Proficiency: Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, Sciforma. Zoho Projects.
- Financial Acumen: Ability to manage budgets and understand cost-benefit analyses.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Comfortable using KPIs and metrics to drive project decisions.

Experience in a Regulated Industry: (e.g., telecoms) where governance and compliance are crucial