Agile Delivery Manager: eCommerce at The Shoprite Group of Companies

Purpose of the Job    

• Join our ecommerce team that is reinventing online shopping across Africa. The Shoprite Group is Africa’s largest retailer with over 35 million customers and 2,500 outlets. We are digitally transforming the business, and in doing so, are looking for highly talented people to join our ecommerce team and shape the face of online shopping in Africa.

The Ecommerce Delivery Manager is responsible for the continuous planning, management, and implementation of initiatives to support the effective running of the Technology objectives of the ecommerce business

Job Objectives    

• Responsible to formulate the overarching project plan for the digital commerce roadmap and to oversee the successful delivery of all aspects of the plan
• Responsible to continuously update and modify the plan, and direct activities, considering a fast moving and ever-changing environment
• Responsible for understanding the business objectives, technical scope, and resource requirements of the roadmap
• Responsible to formulate a strong working relationship across key business, IT and development stakeholders and to coordinate activities across functions
• Responsible to obtain a strong technical understanding of the overall digital commerce solution to enable effective delivery
• Accountable to lead the successful, on-time and on-budget delivery of various sub-projects within the overall project plan
• Responsible for the coordination and excellent communication between all key stakeholders
• Accountable to manage critical dependencies, resolve conflicts, mitigate risks through collaboration and facilitating decisions
• Accountable for adequately monitoring, controlling, and reporting financial aspects of the project plan

Qualifications    

• 3 - year Bachelors Degree/ NQF level 6
• 7 years in Project Management
• Agile/SAFe qualification and delivery using these methods

Experience    

• 10 - 12 years of experience delivering projects and programmes in large corporate environments.
• Successful delivery of programmes of over 50 individuals comprised of business and technology solution components
• Relationship management experience at director and senior executive level
• Management of both agile and waterfall delivery teams