Senior Project Manager at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Sanlam Collective Investments Project Management Office requires the services of a Senior Project Manager. As a Senior Project Manager, you will play a critical role in overseeing and managing the execution of key projects within SCI. Your expertise and experience will be instrumental in ensuring the successful delivery of projects on time, within budget, and to stakeholders’ satisfaction.

Programme Complexity
The set of projects are represented by:

• Business Intelligence project as part of the overall Group efforts client-centric led CRM project.
• Client value proposition project that follows a customer journey mapping process.
• Portfolio construction and solution-led investment offering.
• The brand proposition of Sanlam Investments that reflects the stated ambitions of people and the organisation’s transformational activities that would include elements of culture, way of work, upskilling and collaboration.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Check and challenge requirements against expected benefits and suggest better approaches to achieve benefits.
• Planning, overseeing and supervising work on the project, providing day-to-day guidance, coordinating and ensuring quality control of the outputs.
• Developing a Work Plan, and ensuring that the timelines in the work plan are strictly adhered to.
• Ensuring consistency of the project outputs.
• Initiating any terms of reference for additional work as necessary.
• Preparing project progress reports and any other reports as may be required.
• Track benefit realisation.

And to deliver business benefits through:

• Maintaining and flexing a viable portfolio of projects that will deliver business benefits.
• Structuring planning and sequencing the programme change in line with the defined business transition.
• Orchestrating the delivery of the portfolio/programme in order to deliver the required business transition states and outcomes.
• Playing a fundamental role in working with the business to shape and challenge the business case to drive through the right approach to transition planning and benefits realisation.
• Managing different stakeholder expectations.
• Manage programme/portfolio and project uncertainty and understand the impacts of this on the project portfolio and wider business.
• Identifying and facilitating the prioritisation of options.

Governance and Control:

• Establishing appropriate best practice programme management techniques.
• Reports status and prognosis.
• Maintaining close working relationships with both the business area, group projects and head of PMO to understand at all times the financials on all projects within the portfolio/programme. 

What will make you successful in this role?

• Minimum 8 - 10 years of project/portfolio management experience essential, specifically in more complex projects.
• Product management experience would be advantageous.
• PMI/Prince 2/Cranfield College qualification.

Technical Competencies:

• Knowledge of project/programme management methodology
• Relationship development
• Strong administration skills
• Project administration training
• Excellent minute-taking skills
• Good knowledge of the following tools and packages:
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Visio
• MS Project

Behavioural Competencies:

• Planning and organizing across business units and stakeholders
• Problem solving and prioritising skills
• Good communication/interpersonal skills
• Client service orientation
• Action / results orientation
• Detail orientation
• Numerical skills
• Ownership of tasks
• High energy
• Self-starter
• Sound decision-making skills

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strategic project Oversight
• Project Planning
• Project Management Tools
• Project Tracking and Reporting
• Project Portfolio Management