4 weeks ago
Job title : IT Project Manager Mr Price Group
Job Location : KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Deadline : October 27, 2024
Quick Recommended Links
Job Description
- The Mr Price Group is recruiting a dynamic Project Manager for our IT PMO Office!
- Our ideal person is a problem solver and a great communicator, does not shy away from challenging situations and accepts a high degree of responsibility for ensuring their stakeholders are delighted and the business always benefits.
Responsibilities
- Working with an awesome team of Project Managers and Project Administrators.
- Be part of growing the PMO office, as we always looking for new ways to improve our methodology and process.
- Run daily stand ups with your team ensuring plans are in motion and on target.
- Collaborate with the various team members of the projects assigned to you, such as developers architects and business analysts.
- Reviewing your plans and budgets across your projects.
- Effectively communicating project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Drafting presentations for key engagements like Project update meetings and Steering committees.
- Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
- Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
- Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Review of commercial agreements from third parties.
- Ensuring risk and issues that may impact your project are identified, managed, and escalated if required.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
- Conduct request for proposal for exciting new solutions.
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals, with the Portfolio Manager
- Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
- Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.
- Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.
Qualifications
- Relevant Business or IT Degree
- 5+ years in a Project Manager role (in both systems development and Infrastructure)
- Project management certifications or demonstrable career development activities would be a massive advantage
Plus experience with:
- Infrastrucure and Networks
- The systems development lifecycle, and methodologies such as waterfall and agile.
- Leading projects successfully (including leading teams, budgeting, planning, quality management, problem solving, reporting, managing risk)
- Project Management principles & ability to use ‘best practice’ in all aspects of project management, with focus on practical results rather than process
- Approach to, benefits delivery – from strategy to realization
- MS Project and Project Online
- Retail sector and broad understanding of traditional and new technologies used in a retail and online environments
How to Apply for this Offer
Interested and Qualified candidates should Click here to Apply Now
- ICT jobs