Senior Project Manager

1 day ago

Durban, South Africa Games Global Full time

This role will part of the Games Global Enterprise Systems functions reporting into the Infrastructure Technology Services Manager.

Responsible for the overall management and successful completion of multiple strategic and operational projects of high complexity ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and according to agreed quality requirements, contributing stakeholder satisfaction, reduced risk and compliance to regulatory and legislative requirements. Coordinate and manage relevant activities across projects streams and interface with relevant internal and/or external stakeholders.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Define project and program standard operating procedures and implement and manage end-to-end processes.
- Establish and maintain a standard set of practices, processes and templates for managing projects and programs consistently and efficiently to reduce project related risk and costs.
- Accountable for the end-to-end project planning and a Project Management Plan - including plans for Scope, Communication, Risk & Issues, Cost and Stakeholder Management.
- Maintain the Risk Log, Assumption Log, Issue Log, Dependency Log and Decision Log for administered projects.
- Create project charters to identify project scope, critical success factors, risks, etc.
- Set the strategic direction of all projects, define the project's scope and set milestones and deadlines.
- Implement stringent project and program governance processes.
- Identify needed resources for projects, defines and assigns major project roles.
- Define, manage, monitor and report on budget variances in order to maximize financial performance.
- Plan, manage and monitor initiatives to ensure project delivery and service excellence to all project stakeholders.
- Responsible for working with cross functional teams to define and prioritize roadmaps
- Responsible for impact assessing and prioritizing roadmap changes in collaboration with the cross functional teams.
- Monitor compliance with project management standards, policies, procedures, templates and other shared documentation.
- Partner with project stakeholders to complete business cases, prepare profit and loss analyses and design new templates as part of project selection and continuous improvement.
- Assess Master Services Agreements and Statements of Work to highlight shortcomings that could lead to poor contracting and result in project loss / poor delivery.
- Ensure that the appropriate project benefits are identified, quantified and realized.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and participate in internal communications activities to inform stakeholders of progress and issues.
- Relevant BSC / BCom degree / Business Diploma or Advanced Management Diploma or equivalent work experience in a related field.
- 6 - 10 years’ Project Management Experience in large sized, high complexity projects.
- Project management certification (PPM, Prince2, Agile, etc.)
- Expert knowledge the SDLC or IT Delivery Cycle.
- Expert knowledge of Software Project Management.

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