Project Manager

Job Function: Software & Cloud Services The role:

- Collaborate closely with customer business stakeholders and external vendors to define project requirements and objectives.
- Develop comprehensive project plans, timelines, and budgets in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Develop and monitor project budgets, ensuring transparency and accurate forecasting.
- Responsible for planning, organizing, managing, controlling, and communicating on all aspects of a project within the time, cost and quality thresholds set
- Facilitates the development of project artefacts and/or any other documentation in collaboration with the project team
- Facilitates the identification of project resource requirements and works with Project Resource Scheduler to define and construct project teams
- Monitor project progress, identify potential risks, and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery.
- Effectively communicate project status, updates, and milestones to all relevant stakeholders.
- Facilitates regular core team meetings to review risks, issues and monitors project health and progress
- Conduct thorough post-implementation evaluations to assess project outcomes and identify areas for improvement.
- Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and preparing and completing action plans; implementing productivity, quality, and customer-service standards
- Responsible for managing large sized projects (as described in the Project Profile Matrix) supporting the Delivery Lead in customer engagements for SoftwareOne
- Strong conflict resolution skills, including the abilities to negotiate and influence others
- Excellent presentation skills
- Strong organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Structured, organized, disciplined and methodical.
- Highly motivated and results oriented
- Strong decision-making skills
- Ability to recognize and challenge on quality nonperformance.
- Excellent project planning and execution
- Excellent business acumen
- Well define cost-benefit analysis
- Advanced level in strategic thinking and strategic planning
- Advanced level in mentoring and coaching
- Excellent perform management and KPI/goal setting
- Excellent change management skills
- Strong skills in process improvement and continuous improvement
- Collaborate effectively with both local and remote teams working in different time zone

What we need to see from you:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in business management, project management, change leadership, or similar discipline.
- Over 5+ years in a Project Management role and PMP/Prince 2 Practitioner/ Agile PM/ SCRUM qualifications/certifications.
- Proven experience in project management, preferably within a technology or business enablement context.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
- Experience in tactical and strategic project leadership including taking a customer centric approach in project scope and delivery.
- ⁠Manages and controls costs to drive financially healthy projects
- Participates in upselling and presales activities where the appropriate opportunities present themselves.
- Identifies and develops new opportunities within current project supporting early qualification and opportunity assessment
- Works with Solution Sales on presales activities and getting the scope finalized as required/requested.
- Responsible for directly managing multiple projects within a Service Practice
- Manages Senior-level client delivery relationships and resolves conflicts
- Manages knowledge sharing within the SoftwareOne PMO community
- Works with Delivery Leads in project risk management and delivery of projects
- Work with consultants and other delivery partners including those with specialist capabilities to meet project objectives.
- Provides support, advice and guidance to other Project Managers or Project Team members
- Provides training to team members and assists them with their professional development
- Responsible for leading and supporting the project team as required on all live projects
- Ensures team members support knowledge sharing and reuse requirements of project
- Excellent client-facing and communication skills. (Bilingual
- Native and English speaking)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong leadership skills, including positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization
- Strong problem-solving skills
- ⁠Experience in Microsoft Azure, Digital Workplace and Security and other cloud Technologies that cover Advisory, Build and Managed.

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