Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Senior Manager Strategic Projects

The Position:
PMO is a multi-skilled team with critical competencies required to deliver strategic projects; establishes common standards, best practices and tools for greater consistency and efficiency of project delivery; aligns project deliverables along the shared value approach for sustainable benefits realization.
Responsible for ensuring group of related strategic projects that span across one or multiple lines of business are delivered to the appropriate level of quality, on time, within scope and budget, in accordance with the program plan and program governance arrangements; and support the business to adopt and align itself to the introduced changes for sustained and superior performance.

Key Responsibilities:
• Planning and designing the program, defining the program’s governance arrangements.
• Facilitating resourcing to project teams in the program whilst ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the program’s individual projects.
• Managing the program’s budget on behalf of the Program Executive, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the program progresses.
• Managing third party contributions to the program.
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects.
• Managing risks to the Program’s successful outcome.
• Proactively monitoring program progress, resolving issues, and initiating appropriate corrective action in order to facilitate program delivery within defined constraints.
• Reporting program at regular intervals to the Program Executive.
• Develop mechanisms for anticipating, responding to and activating change ensuring continued relevance and effectiveness for the business.
• Develop and activate most viable change management strategies and frameworks for successful implementation of projects.
• Work with various teams to develop and implement learning programs and frameworks for continuous adoption of changes, improvement, and innovation.
• Regularly conduct project health checks touching on among other things; strategy alignment, people, processes, and technologies and evaluating how well equipped they are in responding to emerging opportunities and threats.
• Participate in establishing and cascading project best practices, templates, tools, processes.

The Person:
For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering from a recognized university.
• Certification in PRINCE 2/ MSP/ SCRUM.
• Certification in CBAP/Six Sigma.
• 8 years’ relevant work experience; of which 5 years should be in managing large scale projects.
• Program & project Management skills including prioritization and ability to multi-task.
• Proven knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures.
• Excellent verbal, written communication skills, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Strong people management capability.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Change management principles, best practices, and achievements in large scale projects.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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