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BI Project Manager

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• Contract Senior position
• Midrand
• Posted 02 Nov 2023 by Recru-it
• Expires in 29 days
• Job 2543493 - Ref PE010612

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Role Purpose:
The Client Project Manager leads and directs concurrent client projects classified as standard or complex. The primary responsibility of Client Project Managers will be to interface with all project stakeholders to take projects from original concept through to final implementation, including handing over to Operations (whether internal to NTT or into the client's support operations).

• Coordinates all aspects of a product or service offering project for a client, from inception to installation.
• Installations may involve acceptance of capitalized equipment or enterprise software systems, or system integration or consulting projects/engagements.
• May work at client site from time to time.
• Typically involves extensive interaction with sales, systems engineering, product development, and other members of cross-functional teams.
• Project is typically focused on the delivery of new or enhanced products to the improvement of customer satisfaction through the use of technology.
• Project management skills, rather than technical skills, are key, but a strong technical background is often required to manage competing interests.
• Typically oversees schedules and budgets to ensure goal attainment.
• This job manages specific projects that have a distinct beginning and end.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

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

 
Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Has responsibility for the allocated streams project’s 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 
• Resolves personal conflicts. 
• 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. 
• Enforces risk management processes. 
• 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. 
• Logs lessons learned. 
• Updates the organization’s knowledge base. 
• Communicating with stakeholders alongside the Reporting Lead and optional Programme Manager 

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. 
• An effective PM can motivate their team to overcome the most difficult challenges so they can meet deadlines and remain within budget. 
• 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. 

Role Purpose:
The Client Project Manager leads and directs concurrent client projects classified as standard or complex. The primary responsibility of Client Project Managers will be to interface with all project stakeholders to take projects from original concept through to final implementation, including handing over to Operations (whether internal to NTT or into the client's support operations).

• Coordinates all aspects of a product or service offering project for a client, from inception to installation.
• Installations may involve acceptance of capitalized equipment or enterprise software systems, or system integration or consulting projects/engagements.
• May work at client site from time to time.
• Typically involves extensive interaction with sales, systems engineering, product development, and other members of cross-functional teams.
• Project is typically focused on the delivery of new or enhanced products to the improvement of customer satisfaction through the use of technology.
• Project management skills, rather than technical skills, are key, but a strong technical background is often required to manage competing interests.
• Typically oversees schedules and budgets to ensure goal attainment.
• This job manages specific projects that have a distinct beginning and end.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

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

 
Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Has responsibility for the allocated streams project’s 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 
• Resolves personal conflicts. 
• 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. 
• Enforces risk management processes. 
• 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. 
• Logs lessons learned. 
• Updates the organization’s knowledge base. 
• Communicating with stakeholders alongside the Reporting Lead and optional Programme Manager 

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. 
• An effective PM can motivate their team to overcome the most difficult challenges so they can meet deadlines and remain within budget. 
• 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. 

Desired Skills:

• • Relevant project management certifications
• • Project Management degree
• ITIL
• moderate level of related experience

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