Senior Project Manager

Overview:
Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We are a talent incubator. The time you spend at Expleo will turbo-charge your career, allowing you to work on complex technical challenges, enjoy opportunities to expand your skills and take part in inspiring, multi-disciplinary collaborations with your colleagues. Whether working on autonomous vehicles, green planes, the factories of tomorrow or cutting-edge banking technology, you will have the opportunity to become a bolder version of yourself. Let’s change the game together.

We are looking for a **Senior Project Manager** to join our dynamic team in **Johannesburg.**

The Senior Project Manager plays a vital role in agile project management, overseeing and coordinating the planning, execution, and successful implementation of complex multi-stream projects. Their duties encompass developing and supervising project plans, engaging stakeholders, managing budget and resources, ensuring quality control, and driving successful delivery to attain business value.

**Responsibilities**:
**Financial / Business Objectives**:

- Facilitate scoping sessions to gain a thorough clear understanding of the project scope and establish well-defined deliverables.
- Develop comprehensive project plans, including defining goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Participate in the development of budgets by working closely with stakeholders and finance teams to determine the financial requirements.
- Effectively execute the project plan by providing clear guidance to IT delivery managers and project teams, coordinating activities to ensure the timely completion of milestones. Ensure the delivery of solutions within set timelines, cost, and quality parameters by continuously refining priorities, focusing on the mínimal viable product, maintaining project velocity, and prioritizing value delivery.
- Identify obstacles and blockers that may impair delivery and take necessary action to overcome them and keep the program on track.
- Provide input to and monitor financial performance of assigned projects tracking expenses and implementing measures to control costs where deviations occur.
- Utilize principles of cost effectiveness during project planning and execution to contribute towards the attainment of financial targets.
- Identify potential risks within the projects and evaluate their impact on timing, cost, quality, value realization, and potential implications on the overall portfolio to allow for proactive planning, risk mitigation, and ensuring value delivery.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within assigned programs, leveraging retrospectives, lessons learned, best practices, and feedback to enhance project management processes and outcomes. Promoting a culture of learning, innovation, and efficiency within the team.
- Ensure compliance with established project governance standards by closely monitoring adherence to industry best practices and the agreed APMO (Agile Project Management Office) Delivery Framework.
- Advance and mature the APMO (Agile Project Management Office) Delivery Framework leveraging of Lean and Agile philosophies to enhance project management practices by increasing efficiency, fostering flexibility, and promoting responsiveness.
- Leverage expertise in delivering previous projects and understanding of business needs to offer specialized input, facilitate discussions, provide mentorship, and offer guidance to delivery managers and team members

**Client Service and Relationships**:

- Build open and trusting relationships with product owners, stakeholder and executive product sponsors.
- Build relationships with colleagues, peers and team members by using appropriate interpersonal styles of openness, collaboration, trust and respect, which provides a sense of confidence - live the companies values.
- Ensure traceability of clients’ needs through the development life cycle in accordance with client's standard.
- Support business and product owners in cross business and IT unit alignment, dependencies and prioritisation discussions
- Facilitate resolution of complex conflict situations among parties at various levels by organizing meetings to identify the root cause of problems, employing effective problem-solving techniques.
- Foster an engaging environment where project team members are motivated to exceed expectations, cultivating a strong sense of respect and value.
- Build and maintain sound and strategic relationships with key suppliers in support of the APMO (Agile Project Management Office).
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of project needs by scheduling meetings with stakeholders and providing them with a well-defined agenda that outlines the purpose of the interaction, proposed actions, and expected outcomes.
- Maintain updated and accessible communication channels across projects to ensure transparency am