Senior Manager - Enterprise Project Office (Gauteng) at Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)

JOB PURPOSE

Manages a project support office or project management office of project managers. Oversee and manage a team of organisational change managers and a team of business analysts to support project demand and delivery of business requirements for project delivery. Drives the creation, implementation, and management of project management methods and project delivery support capabilities and frameworks for the company.
 
RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Framework Design
Lead the development of project and program management frameworks and tools to ensure that these meet the needs of key internal and external stakeholders.

Culture of Innovation
Drive a culture of innovation by creating multi-stakeholder processes that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, leveraging advancements and modern frameworks such as Agile, SAFE.

Project Governance
Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within the project delivery and program management office teams, and ensure program and project compliance with the organisation's wider governance structures and processes.

Project Portfolio Risk Management
Take responsibility for developing and delivering the project and program risk management and/or control policies and procedures.

Project Reporting and Review
Specify and lead the delivery of the review process at project and program levels to ensure that stakeholders are able to evaluate progress and agree on change at appropriate points.

Policy Development & Implementation
Develop functional or operational policies and help develop policy frameworks for area of responsibility or department. Take responsibility for creating underlying procedures and monitoring  their implementation.

Project Team Management
Leads large project and program teams (or multiple small to medium teams); defines the project/program vision and communicates the outcomes needed along with guidance to achieve outcome, manages resources across projects/programs; negotiates flow of additional team members on and off the team as needed; and builds the capability of the team through training, coaching and mentoring.

Portfolio Management
Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of programs within a significant area of responsibility, using an appropriate program and project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.

Project Resource Management
Lead the negotiation and deployment of substantial, complex annual and longer-term program and project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilisation.

Project Scope Realisation
Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business requirements are realised across a program enabling business to report on project benefits realised.

Information and Business Advice
Provide authoritative specialist advice to the leadership team of a small or nationally based organisation or subsidiary to guide the implementation of policy and the design and implementation of projects and change initiatives.

Organisational Capability Building
Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant business area. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritise development activities. Motivate others to develop their capabilities and fulfill their personal potential. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organisation through mentoring and other informal methods.

Leadership, Direction and Influence
Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organisation's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals. Map and develop a network of diverse stakeholders, technologies, and ideas whose influence is critical to the achievement of digital plans and objectives.

Performance Management
Manage and report on performance within the department or area of responsibility; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold them accountable for achieving these; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
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Requirements
GENERAL EDUCATION

• Grade 12/ SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential)
• Relevant Project Management qualification (Essential)
• Business related Degree/Diploma (Essential)
• Agile and SCRUM certification (Essential)
• Post Graduate qualification (Advantageous)

 
GENERAL EXPERIENCE

• 8 or more years' project, programme and portfolio management experience (Essential)
• Experience in functional decomposition, business analysis, DSDM requirements management, process improvement and optimisation (Essential)
• KANBAN and ADKAR experience (Essential)

 MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE

• 3 to 6 years' experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (Essential)