Project Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Project Management Connection Full time

**Main Purpose of the Job**

The management of projects to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Coordinate and integrate activities across multiple functional lines
- Ensure timely and effective communication with the project team and project stakeholders
- Manage project dependencies and team and stakeholder relationships as it relates to the project
- Provide strong planning and process skills to the team, and assume accountability for the definition and execution of the project plans including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing out of the project
- Performance evaluation
- Project reporting
- Facilitate communications between the project team and stakeholders to prevent issues, rectify issues, manage risk and support delivery of the project objectives
- Manage stakeholder expectations

**Role Characteristics**
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to meet deadlines/milestones
- Strong negotiation skills
- Experience of using project tools
- Ability to manage business expectations.
- Ability to coach and mentor teammates.
- Knowledge of Retail/Supply Chain

**Significance of Job in the Organisation**

Ensure that projects are coordinated and completed to time, quality and budget constraints.

**Tasks and Activities**
- Manage Projects
- Able to manage more than one project at a time
- Effectively estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project(s) to an agreed scope
- Liaise with other managers within the ICT functions and within the business; manage client/user and line management expectations for projects
- Ensure that a change control procedure is in place, and actively used to assess the effect of changes to the project on costs, timescales and /or resource needs and report these to the project sponsors
- Lead the project team; allocating and monitoring tasks, motivating staff and appraising individual performance
- Monitor and control allocated human and material resources, associated revenue costs and all capital costs against the project budget
- Prepare and maintain realistic scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk and procurement management plans, including sub-projects, and monitor and control team performance against each plan, providing reports to client/user management and senior management as required
- Responsible for the definition, documentation and safe execution of complex projects, directing and counseling project team members, and advising clients/users as necessary on all phases
- Identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the project
- Advise resource managers / staff line managers on the development, training and appraisal issues for project staff.
- Budget and budget reporting responsibility
- Ensure formal closure on own projects and document lessons learnt

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