BI Project Manager

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is looking for a skilled Project Manager in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ideal candidate will possess a Project Management degree and relevant certifications such as PMP and ITIL. Responsibilities include managing project success, fostering a collaborative environment, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. This role demands strong decision-making, conflict resolution, and time management skills to navigate project complexities and achieve goals efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Has responsibility for the allocated streams project success.
• Promotes a productive and collaborative environment.
• Ensures professional interaction between team and stakeholders.
• Manages resources to ensure delivery, resource allocation and prioritisation.
• Coordinates work between the project and key stakeholders.
• Controls implementation of approved changes.
• Motivates the project team.
• Analyses variances with the Project Management Plan.

Skills

Conflict resolution capabilities

Motivational

Resilience

Decision-making skills

Time-management skills

Education

Project Management degree or equivalent

Relevant project management certifications preferably PMP

ITIL certification

Job description

• Project Management degree or equivalent with a moderate level of related experience
• Relevant project management certifications preferably PMP
• ITIL certification is preferable

Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes

• Conflict resolution capabilities. A project manager navigates conflicting demands from stakeholders and may have to resolve interpersonal conflicts among team members.
• Motivational. An effective PM can motivate their team to overcome the most difficult challenges so they can meet deadlines and remain within budget.
• Resilience. The work never really stops for a project manager. A PM must know how to keep themselves and their teams cool under pressure.
• Decision-making skills. PMs need to know how to make strategic, data-driven decisions every day and how to course-correct when they get something wrong inline and supported by programme manager
• Time-management skills. A good PM needs well developed time-management skills in order to stay on top of the stream of daily tasks.

Responsibilities

• Has responsibility for the allocated streams projects success.
• Promotes a productive and collaborative environment.
• Ensures professional interaction between team and stakeholders.
• Ensures collaboration within the team.
• Managing resources to ensure delivery, resource allocation and prioritisation is done on programme level
• Explains the project life cycle and processes to stakeholders.
• Coordinates work between the project and key stakeholders.
• Works with stakeholders to identify constraints and assumptions.
• Identifies dependencies of project activities.
• Is jointly responsible for developing a realistic schedule.
• Controls implementation of approved changes.
• Assists the team during project execution.
• Works with stakeholders to meet their expectations.
• Ensures that deliverables are accepted by the customer.
• Works with the team to keep as close as possible to the Plan.
• Setting deadlines inline with Programme manager and monitoring project stream progress
• Moves the project towards its goal on a daily basis.
• Uses metrics to control project progress.
• Communicates project progress to key stakeholders.
• Keeps the focus of the team on Risk Management throughout the project.
• Spends time to improve processes.
• Works to improve project and product quality.
• Motivates the project team.
• Problem solving within the stream allocated
• Analyses variances with the Project Management Plan.
• Determines whether a change request is needed to get back on track.
• Monitoring project performance on DevOps
• Performs project closure.
• Updates the organizations knowledge base.
• Communicating with stakeholders alongside the Reporting Lead and optional Programme Manager