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And were insanely dedicated to creating a work environment that you look forward to every single day. Thats why we invest heavily in our employee engagement, so you enjoy the tech industrys best perks. Together with the whole Pride, (lion roar for "family") employees, customers, and partners, were on a mission to break new ground and lead the real estate industry into a digital-first future.
We understand the need to provide a flexible working environment partnered with team collaboration and socialisation. Therefore, we operate a hybrid working model with 3 days of working from home per week. This role is based in the Cape Town office.
Role Overview
This role is responsible for the comprehensive management of projects and programs throughout their entire lifecycle. The Project/Program Manager drives successful project execution by defining objectives, developing detailed project plans, and ensuring effective collaboration among internal and external stakeholders. This individual proactively identifies and mitigates risks, monitors progress against established metrics, and maintains clear communication to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to the satisfaction of all stakeholders. They are a key driver in building consensus, resolving issues, and optimizing resource allocation to achieve project and organizational goals.
Responsibilities
- Management of project plans and deliverables by internal and external project team members
- Identifies and gains agreement on project objectives, scope, timing, and resources.
- Development of overarching project plans that include deliverables, owners, dependencies, timeline, risks, issues etc., for each initiative
- Project/Program Management throughout the lifecycle including:
- Analysing, planning, and tracking project milestones, tasks, dependencies, etc.
- Communication Management
- Establishing metrics and reporting performance against agreed upon targets
- Constantly monitor and report on the progress of the project to all stakeholders including identification and communication of risks and issues to Stakeholders and Sponsors in a timely and clear fashion
- Plan and schedule project timelines
- Establish and moderate weekly project calls with key project resources to ensure alignment on performance and project plans
- Ensure notes, actions items and decisions are documented
- Assist in creation or updating of project related documentation including scope document, use case lists, KPI reports
- Identifies cross-functional gaps and aligns with the appropriate teams to resolve
- Defines the business case with input from stakeholders.
- Ensures resources are optimally sourced and deployed.
- Adeptly builds consensus and gains buy-in among stakeholders across the organisation.
- Escalates and works to resolve issues that serve as roadblocks and/or place project objectives at risk.
- Identifies and provides visibility into trade-offs between options, while strongly influencing recommended approach.
Personal And Business Skills
- Strong planning acumen and self-starter that clearly prioritizes against delivery goals
- Communication strengths to anticipate needs and ensure teams have the information they need to be effective, presents effectively to executives and cross-functional leaders
- Analytic & strategic thinking based on deriving insights from disparate pieces of information and translating those insights into action and mitigation plans
- Solid decision-making skills despite ambiguous data and situations. Considers upstream and downstream operational impacts as decision inputs. Balances long-term vs. short-term objectives
- 5-7 years working knowledge of and experiencewith project/program management
- Detail-oriented and extremely organized, with proven ability to establish priorities and achieve results with very strong communication skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent program/project management experiencebeneficial
- PMP Certification is a plus
We want our teams to love working here, so weve created some incredible perks for you to enjoy:
- We want our staff to love working here, and so weve created a few unique perks such as office breakfasts, quarterly lunches and virtual social events. Additionally, we value your input in your employee experience and have employee-led groups such as our DEI committee, employee resource groups such as Women and Allies, and our Pride Event Group
- Have confidence in your health with our offered Medical Aid Scheme.
- Invest in our competitive Personal Pension plan and help set you up for your future.
- Big on family? So are we! Here at MRI Software we recognise that your family is important, and being able to spend quality time with your family as it grows is a wonderful experience. Therefore, the MRI Software Parental Leave benefit is designed to give you the opportunity to spend time with your new arrival(s).
- Enjoy a fantastic work-life balance with 25 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays, in addition to a bank of 15 hours of "Flex Time Off" to be used whenever and however you choose!
- Further your professional development with our Tuition Reimbursement Schemes
- Enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere in the world for two weeks out of the year!
Amazing growth takes amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge?
We know theconfidence gapandimposter syndromecan get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates, so please dont hesitate to apply wed love to hear from you!
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