Project Manager

Have you wondered how South Africa’s largest single brand retailer manages to offer its customers the most sought after products at the best prices? Has it been a career dream to work for a large organization that is known to be the friendliest retail brand; winning local and international awards for innovations?

Do you want to join a team of like-minded business and systems specialists who are integral in ensuring PEP has the capability to delight its customers? Is your next career move to join a team that constantly challenges itself to learn, grow and be agile? A team that works collaboratively with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Purpose of the job

As a member of the Pep PMO, the Project manager will be responsible for the end-to-end management of large cross-functional projects. The Project manager will also contribute to the key services provided by the PMO to the business. This will include project portfolio management, reporting, advising the business on project management best practices and standards, tracking of compliance against prescribed company standards as well as project management training to the business.

Key Responsibilities

Project management

? Project management of large cross-functional projects

? Development of full scale project plans for project delivery (Set up; scope; resources; timelines; budgets; phase/project milestones; identify cross functional project teams; metrics for project success; ROI; risk management etc)

? Manage project proposals, project unpacking & business case, resources and functional dependency analysis

? Budget management

? Facilitates change management

? Effectively monitor, track and control the performance of a project

? Ensure projects adheres to architecture blueprints

? Communicate project updates regularly - feedback to client

? Stakeholder management and engagement.
- Scheduling and chairing of project status meeting
- Scheduling and chairing of Steerco meetings - manage actions and admin
- Management of any issues or escalations - Risks, resources, timelines, clashes/dependencies

Project Portfolio management

? Facilitation of the process to gather project information for the building and configuration of the project portfolio.

? Provide guidance to the business on the development of business cases for projects.

? Identification, unpacking and resolution of portfolio constraints (key resources, dependencies, financial).Build and maintain project matrix for the prioritisation of projects

? Project Demand view, Capacity planning, Project management, 3rd party management

PMO Services

? Fulfills a project consultant/advisor role to the business

? Training other project managers in all, or certain key aspects of project management e.g. task scheduling, risk management, etc.

? Mentors/coaches other in project management principles

? Compliance tracking against prescribed project management standards

? Keeps abreast of project management trends and developments.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

? Relevant tertiary qualification (e.g. IT; Commercial ; Computer Science).

? Project management qualification/training (e.g. PMBOK, Prince2 or similar)

? Professional project management certification (e.g. PMP) will be an advantage

? 3-5 years project management experience

? Retail experience will be an advantage

? PMO or similar experience will be an advantage

? Proven track record of medium to large scale projects

? Experience leading cross functional project teams

? Budget Management - Understands financial costing and management
- Competencies: Organizational sensitivity, Drive, Negotiating, Directing, Results orientated, Analyzing and forming opinions.

PEP strives for equal opportunity in terms of its employment equity guidelines.