Senior Project Manager - Cape Town at SPAN Digital Innovation

Key Responsibilities include:

• Lead, monitor, and motivate project teams across the company and interact with staff at all levels in the organization, facilitating commitment, productivity, and removing obstacles
• Contribute to adopting, mentoring, and improving overall Project Management processes and procedures
• Drive collaboration between internal engineering teams and external customers to achieve milestones and deliverables
• Execute on several projects concurrently, with remote & distributed project teams, while balancing shifting priorities
• Mentor individual on delivery management through one-to-one involvement with the ‘People Management’ of team members 
• Build relationships with clients and stakeholders to ensure quality deliverables and client engagement
• Foster a positive team culture, mentor engineers, and help execute growth plans
• Define the project and build the comprehensive work plan and manage the budget - plan, execute and close projects
• Manage Teams — facilitating commitment and productivity, removing obstacles, and motivating team members
• Manage Expectations — aligning projects to business goals, managing stakeholders, and communicating project status, milestones, and unexpected difficulties effectively
• Assist the team to perform at their highest level, by removing any impediments to progress and by facilitating meetings

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years experience in a Project Management role within a Software Engineering environment
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle (including agile, and/or waterfall or hybrid methodologies and approaches)
• Knowledge of project management principles, processes and tools (eg JIRA); including budget management, creating supporting documentation, and managing resources needed to execute a project
• Scrum master certification preferred
• Qualification in CS, Eng or IS (or equivalent experience)
• Experience within a Global Distributed Delivery team and therefore the willingness to work evenings
• Ability to identify and manage project risks and solid change control experience
• Proven ability to prioritize, follow-through, and multi-task
• A seasoned problem solver who manages proactively
• Ability to both work independently and direct a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent customer service orientation in dealing with external audiences and internal clients
• Experience and proficiency in handling client contact for all project communications