Project Manager

Syke Legal Engineering; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Syke Legal Engineering in Cape Town is seeking a Project Manager who will be responsible for delivering projects on schedule, within scope, and within budget. This role requires strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to lead project teams effectively.

The ideal candidate will have proven project management experience and the ability to work in both Agile and Waterfall environments. The position allows for remote work and flexible hours.

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience including mobilisation and project planning.
• Strong communication skills to manage project teams effectively.
• Ability to work in fast-paced and dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the project in terms of schedule, scope, budget and quality.
• Own and develop client relationships.
• Lead the project team comprising 10+ resources.

Skills

Project management

Communication and stakeholder management

Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Organizational and time-management skills

Tracking project finances

Experience in legal sector

Job description

Our clients choose SYKE not just for our expert knowledge of Legal Technology, but because of our excellent delivery. We enable legal teams to embrace digital transformation without it disrupting the critical work which they deliver to their internal teams and clients. The Project Delivery team is critical to the roll out of technology and as a member, you will work closely with our clients and global delivery experts to manage the end to end lifecycle. At SYKE we truly believe that our people are our greatest assets and play a pivotal role in the value we add to clients. Our teams are dynamic, versatile, innovative and forward-thinking in the delivery of solutions. We encourage an entrepreneurial mind‑set and we are always open to new and exciting ideas that our people present. Joining SYKE provides our people with endless opportunities for growth and development.

Job Description

We expect you to work closely with our internal teams to plan, build relationships and deliver to all the stakeholders of the projects. You will be used to working autonomously and be trusted to own challenges and make decisions with our clients best interest in mind but also a commercial awareness.

You’ll always have the support and supervision of our leadership team, and we work hard to share ideas and innovation internally so that our engineers remain the best in the business.

We don’t have a central office, and all our team work remotely or on client sites.

We are flexible about working hours, locations and time zones, and we try to keep internal processes and paperwork to a minimum. We want everyone to spend their time doing stuff, rather than talking about doing stuff.

As a key member of SYKE, you will continue to learn:

How to implement real change within legal teams encompassing people, process and technology.

How improving operations within legal teams delivers real value to the business(es) they support.

The sheer scale and quality of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

How to develop your skills and mindset to continue to drive innovation for our clients.

As a Project Manager, you will be accountable for:

Delivering the project in terms of schedule, scope, budget and quality

Owning and developing client relationships

Leading the project team (10+ resources)

Project and financial planning

Project resourcing

Status report completion and communication of the status to key Stakeholders

Identify and communicate deviations, risks and issues related to the plan, ensuring mitigating actions are defined and managed.

Qualifications

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Proven project management experience including; mobilisation, project planning, resourcing, monitoring and reporting, risk and issue management and budget control.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to organise project teams accordingly.
• Experience working both in Agile and Waterfall teams
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment, managing multiple initiatives at once to meet deadlines
• Good organisational and time‑management skills with a flexible approach to work
• Tracking project finances and making yourself accountable for profitable delivery
• Experience in delivering change within the legal sector

Set yourself apart from others by having:

2 – 5 years of experience of software delivery.

Experience of working with Legal Teams.

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