Intermediate Project Manager (JHB Hybrid)
Product/Project management
Johannesburg – Gauteng
ENVIRONMENT:
A Johannesburg-based software engineering and data science consultancy with a global presence is looking for a proactive Intermediate Project Manager. The ideal candidate will take ownership of projects, drive product development, and effectively translate business requirements into successful outcomes.
DUTIES:
- Develop project plans that identify resource and budgetary needs.
- Daily project management throughout the project life cycle (i.e. project monitoring, management, and evaluation).
- Coordinating the projects and their interdependencies.
- Meet financial objectives by ensuring financial milestones are met, Analysing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
- Project scheduling.
- Enforce policies and procedures that suit client requirements.
- Allocating, managing and utilising resources across concurrent projects.
- Risk Management.
- Manage project budgets (internal & External costs).
- Change Management.
- Issue Management.
- Present to stakeholders reports on progress as well as problems and solutions.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum 3 years of experience delivering IT Projects.
- Demonstrate practical experience of having been a project manager for multiple projects.
- Work across concurrent projects, with different stakeholders and resources.
- Staffing, planning, and people management.
- Project constraints including budget, scope, schedule, skill.
- Proficiency with project methodologies and techniques (Waterfall; Agile).
- Experience in managing stakeholders and cross-functional development teams.
- Can work across multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to work positively with the wide range of individuals involved in projects.
- At least Upper-intermediate level of English.
- Have some form of technical understanding of the development life cycle .
- Experience in business analysis.
ATTRIBUTES:
- Effective leadership and organisation skills.
- Effective time management and facilitation.
- Excellent communication skills.