Project Manager
Job Description
- Project Tracking Framework: Ensures that the Project Tracking Framework puts in place the necessary Project Management Information that provides Project Leadership with granular information pertaining to:
- Planned Progress of Deliverables for a Project Phase.
- Actual Progress of Deliverables for the same Project Phase.
- Clear visibility Execution Variances.
- Mitigation required to close these Execution Variances.
- Project Quality Framework: Ensures that the Quality Framework dictates the finite Quality Criteria that each Phase & Stage are required to comply with in order ensure that the Project Phases are commenced & completed in a manner that maintains the integrity of the Project Critical Path:
- Clear definition of Entry Criteria that require to be met prior to the Project commencing a Project Phase or Stage
- Clear definition of Exit Criteria that require to be met prior to the Project completing a Project Phase or Stage
- The Schedule of measurements that require to be made throughout the Project Phase or Stage to provide clear visibility of incremental progress being made towards meeting the Entry & Exit Criteria
Responsibilities Duties:
- Project Finance Framework: Puts in place the Project Finance Framework to ensure that the Financial Integrity of the Project is maintained. Specifically, this Framework delivers:
- Budget Formulation for each Phase of the Project
- Incremental tracking of Actuals for each Phase of the Project to date
- Forecast & Cost to Complete for subsequent Phases of the Project
- Project Governance Framework: Puts in place the overarching Project Governance that will ensure that the Operations of the Project are taking place in an effective & efficient manner, with full visibility and mitigation of Risks & Issues, and are in line with delivering the Project Deliverables & Outcomes to the required Time, Cost & Quality Criteria.
- Steering Committee
- Operational Project Management
- Project Delivery Team (Sunrise)
- Design Authority
- Change Request Board
- Internal (non-client) governance sessions
Key Skills:
- Wide understanding of SAP: Business, Functional, Technical
- Understands when and how to escalate and mitigate
- Is comfortable with ambiguity but drives predictability
- Self-motivator and self-starter
- Inquisitive, wanting to learn
- Attention to detail, completer-finisher, but also able to take a ‘helicopter view’
- Keeps composure under pressure
- Takes ownership and is passionate about successful customer outcomes
- Good understanding of agile delivery in general
- Good understanding of waterfall delivery in general
- Good understanding of the end-to-end project lifecycle: from pre-sales to end of stabilization and transition into BaU
- Able to work at all levels of delivery assignment: working with individual end user to farming the account through executive relationships
- Ability to understand and manage budgets to revenue, cost and margin
- Understands and applies project tools: plans, RAID Logs, Change Request Logs etc..
Experiance Qualifications:
- Ability to keep teams focused on the direct tasks and deliverables at hand
- Establish & manage relationships with business managers and end users
- Ability to work across a multiple delivery engagements
- Able to help shape and input into our delivery approach, ensuring we learn from each project, harvest artefacts and knowledge
- Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation, which will be conducted and the results of which will be used in compliance with applicable law.
Benefits:
Training, health, insurance, commuting support, lunch service etc.