Senior Programme Manager: Strategic Partnership at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• To supports the Chief Digital Officer on all digital programmes and operations across digital product teams. Ensuring projects are managed and executed effectively. Overall ownership of the Communication Plan including providing regular reporting to team, Executive level and Dashboard updates. Planning of company-wide comms to ensure that other indirect stakeholders are informed.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Programme management of the digital programme (across Health App and Health ID):

• Governance: Preparing for and facilitating Steercoms/alternative Governance forums: manage respective reporting of progress delivery and risks/issues and drive critical decisions
• Steercom/Status Pack (weekly)
• The Decision, Risk, and Issue log maintenance (weekly)
• Digital exco (monthly)

programme scope/delivery: ensure integration across the programme streams as well as coordinated transition management.

• structured end-to-end roadmap planning those coordinates milestones / dependencies, addresses risks and ensures cohesive stakeholder management across the business.
• plan for overall change management
• ROI (Budget and benefits/value tracking): create targets/commitments across stakeholders (drive Impact Assessment per area); manage programme budget, including cost forecasts; measure programme engagement/impact/value (tracking of benefits of cross-journeys)
• Standardize quality Management Approach (e.g., approach to Changes, approach to monitoring and tracking, etc)

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Tenacity
• Manage Ambiguity
• Cultivate Innovation
• Drives results.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
• Solid understanding of systems development life cycle
• Knowledge of Discovery Products and legacy systems environment
• Evangelist for progressive and fit for purpose Programme and Project Management and governance.
   

Education and Experience

• BSc. IT/Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent from a recognised University
• OR BCom Information Systems
• Seasoned professional with experience of business change, transformation, digital technology programmes or business side scope of product launch.
• At least 10 years’ experience of Project and digital Programme management
• Agile solution delivery experience
• Excellent communication skills (written/oral and presentation).
• Solid understanding of SDLC (traditional and agile), including phases, technical jargon, and artefacts (input and output).