Commercially Managing our client’s Online AD contract.
Responsibilities:
Taking responsibility for all aspects of the delivery of projects across the Online AD contract.
Interfacing with Customer regarding product releases to ensure delivery of functionality as committed to Customer.
Interfacing with Customer regarding commercials to ensure payment from customer and profitability
Managing the Online Project managers and delivery managers.
Managing requirement gathering from internal and external customers.
Following the change Management Process and ensuring that it is compiled to by all members of the team.
Preparing and planning programmes and projects, and driving those plans through to a successful conclusion.
Managing and tracking effort and progress and implementing ways to keep the projects and programmes on track in spite of issues – “make things happen” attitude is essential.
Delivering the resultant programmes and projects on time and to budget, managing expectations and handling issues as required.
Mitigating risks and addressing issues to ensure timely completion of programme and project milestones.
Ability to clearly monitor and report to senior management and Customers on programme status with respect to effort, cost and duration and key milestones.
Manage risks and issues and be in a position to concisely present status at any time to management.
Represent stakeholders at customer meetings and presentations.
Mentoring and review of engineers leveraging individual skills to maximise effectiveness.
Managing teams of varying sizes.
Providing clear leadership to the team and making informed decisions on various options presented.
Highlight and ensure alignment of all aspects of the client programme including projects, enhancements, resources and stakeholders, in terms of objectives, scope, status and progress.
Support demand management through understanding internal and external targets and milestones and monitor these through agreed processes while highlighting and communicating those with a potential for non- or late delivery.
Provide input to demand management prioritisation incorporating both programme elements (e.g. projects, enhancements) and resourcing.
Create, maintain, monitor and communicate the Programme Roadmap in an agreed format for executive communication as required. All changes to the scope and execution of the roadmap will be appropriately controlled.
Maintain, monitor and manage Programme Issues and Risks, highlighting and communicating these with a focus on risks that could potentially impact successful programme delivery. Project level issues and risks are maintained and managed.
Support Programme Governance including the scheduling and documenting of Steering committee meetings which ensure that decision-making follows agreed processes.
Monitor the Programme delivery according to the defined and agreed Vodacom SDLC/methodology. This includes ensuring documentation is maintained in the agreed form within the correct defined central repository structures.
Maintain and monitor the Communication Plan as support for Programme Communication. This includes stakeholder, information distribution lists and planned communication, and ensures that communication expectations are known and followed (e.g. monthly reporting, executive updates).
Follow defined risk and issue escalation processes to appropriate stakeholders as part of communication and stakeholder management
Education Required:
Relevant Tertiary Qualification
Experience Required:
3+ years’ experience in a Programme management role within IT development environment
10+ years’ experience in a Project management role within IT development environment
Experience and certification in one of the following Project Management Methodologies:
Waterfall
Agile Methodologies
PMBOK
Prince2
Total number of subordinates reporting to this role: none directly, but managing the development teams
Essential Competencies:
Strong leadership and vision.
Formal and informal communication
Customer Interaction.
Project development lifecycle.
Design and development methodologies.
Strong understanding of the development process.
Communication, interpersonal skills, enquiring.
Always seeks win /win situations – analytical, creative, takes the initiative.
Results oriented – with ability to distinguish between “needs” and “wants”
Ability to comprehend technical issues
Enjoys planning and executing
Demonstrate vision of end goal and ability to communicate same to team.
High energy and commitment – “does what it takes” attitude
Handles pressure without getting panicked
Advantageous Competencies:
Implementation of programmes in the Online space
Implementation of programmes in the telecommunications industry
Implementation of medium to large scale software development programmes
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