Senior Project Manager

2 days ago

Sandton, South Africa Experian Full time

Company Description

Experian plc is an Anglo-Irish multinational consumer credit reporting company.

Experian collects and aggregates information on over 1 billion people and businesses, including 235 million individual US consumers and more than 25 million US businesses.

We operate in 37 countries with offices in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil.

We employ approximately 17,000 colleagues, and last fiscal year, our year-end revenue was US$5.18 billion.

Our product proposition covers credit services, Decision Analytics and marketing assistance to businesses, including individual fingerprinting and targeting.

**Job Description**:
he Senior Project Manager will be responsible for multiple projects involving cross-functional teams. Manages project scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, stakeholders, integration, communications, and risks. Demonstrate strong leadership and people management skills by coordinating local/regional project teams to deliver on defined project success criteria. Serve as liaison among clients, technical and internal departments to expedite project processes.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- At least 8-10 years’ experience as a project manager
- Some Scrum Master experience or 2+ years supervisory or line management experience
- Agile / Project Management Professional certifications (e.g. AgilePM, CSM, PMP, PRINCE2)

Additional Information
**What you’ll need to bring to the party**
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
- Successful project delivery track record using SDLC models and traditional project management principles and practices
- Understanding of agile frameworks and methodologies
- Client-centric mindset to problem solving
- Servant leadership behaviour
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment

**What you’ll be doing**
- Build business cases to support the acquisition or development of critical project components or strategic initiatives
- Lead the creation and updating of project charters, responsibility matrices, stakeholder management and communication plans, resource, and budget plans
- Engage with business functions to consolidate high-level and detailed scope activity definition, deliverables list, work breakdown structures, and associated work estimations
- Develop and maintain project schedule plans, including summarised information on project phases, milestones and interdependencies
- Provide task assignments, work direction, and guidance to the project team
- Manage internal and external stakeholders throughout the execution of the project lifecycle
- Identify, mitigate, and recommend alternatives to reduce risks / remove impediments that threaten the project implementation or EBIT
- Facilitate project workshops / scrum events

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