Programme Executive

Nedbank Private Wealth; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Johannesburg is looking for an experienced Project Manager to effectively manage and oversee strategic projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, essential qualifications including a degree and PMP certification, and at least 12-15 years of experience in project environments. This position emphasizes optimizing team performance and resource allocation to ensure alignment with strategic goals.

Qualifications

• 12-15 years experience in a project environment.
• 3-5 years in senior management roles.
• PMP or Prince Management certification (PGMP) required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure optimal team delivery.
• Drive capacity planning and resource allocation.
• Manage performance and accountability.

Skills

Project Management Methodology

Program Management

Microsoft Project

Budgeting

Leadership Experience

Education

Professional Qualifications / Honours Degree

SMP / MBA or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Job Classification

Job Family: Project Process and Product

Career Stream: Projects

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Function

FAIS Affected

Job Purpose

To conduct the end-to-end management of the strategy; execution; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing; directing and controlling of all aspects of projects or programmes for a project function in ensuring the successful implementation of Projects to realize Nedbank strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Model the capacity requirements across full portfolio of projects per requirements.
• Communicate the impact of capacity requirements and drive capacity planning.
• Ensure structures are in place that drive alignment of capacity requirements with strategic priority.
• Drive practices and business principles that achieve optimised capacity planning and resource allocation onto projects.
• Set up and enable the management of branch budgets against an agreed financial model that considers operations and growth strategies as these align to the Nedbank strategy.
• Participate in the strategy planning for the function.
• Ensure optimal team delivery.
• Consider the commercial relevance of the function to ensure a clear competitive capability leveraging off leading industry benchmarks.
• Ensure value add cross pollinate successful solutions with other project management functional teams.
• Ensure that the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division / function.
• Manage performance of reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports.
• Actively build a culture of improvement.
• Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff.
• Optimise performance and motivation.
• Empower team to make decisions and recommend tailored solutions to Business Unit specific problems.
• Drive practices and business principles that achieve optimised capacity planning and resource allocation onto projects.
• Ensure the achievement of targets by monitoring implemented Divisional EE and Transformation Plan correcting any deviations.
• Support Nedbank strategy by driving corporate citizenship.
• Develop implement and measure the effectiveness of a strategy to build a differentiated culture.
• Ensure optimal team delivery.

Additional Information

Job Responsibilities Continue

People Specification

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Professional Qualifications / Honours Degree

Preferred Qualification

SMP / MBA or equivalent

Essential Certifications

• PMP or Prince Management certification (PGMP)

Minimum Experience Level

12-15 years experience working in a project environment of large project and/or programmes of which 3-5 years in Senior management roles

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Budgeting
• Capacity planning
• Change management
• Employee training / development
• Financial Accounting Principles
• Organisational behaviour theory
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Stakeholder management
• Strategic planning
• Business writing skills

Behavioural Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Business Savvy
• Building Talent
• Cultivating Networks and Partnerships
• Driving Execution
• Establishing Strategic Direction
• Operational Decision Making

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at

Key Skills

Project Management Methodology, Project / Program Management, Program Management, Management Experience, Microsoft Powerpoint, Project Management, Microsoft Project, Budgeting, DoD Experience, Leadership Experience, Supervising Experience, Contracts

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1