- Excellent planning, organizational and prioritization skills and be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Ensuring Project Management
- Builds and maintains strong business relations with existing and prospective internal customers to interpret all individual requirements.
- Reviews changes in legal and procedural requirements affecting the business or projects.
- Validates product requirements and specifications with various departmental team members to understand the business requirements and facilitate handover to the development team.
- Analyzes information and business systems to make recommendations for improvement of processes and systems.
- Co-ordinates, arranges and manages daily/weekly and monthly meetings with subordinates, management and business stakeholders as required.
- Is accountable for project status reporting as defined in a Communication Plan or as required by the Business Unit.
- Is accountable for proactively tracking the end-to-end project schedule and driving corrective action where required.
- Is accountable for end-to-end project planning and a Project Management Plan including plans for Scope, Communication, Risk & Issues, Dependencies, Cost and Stakeholder Management.
- Assists Team Lead in creating and updating of Team Capacity Plans.
- Assists Team Lead in reviewing team backlogs and re-prioritization with stakeholders.
- Identifies and schedules project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
- Adheres to best project management practices and methodologies such as Professional Management Institute standards or similar.
- Proactively manages change - including Time, Cost and Scope changes.
- Tracks project decisions made on the project.
- Assists Business Units in getting any required benefits monitoring and reporting in place.
- Participates in all areas of the software development life cycle and provides technical support to other company personnel.
- Manages internal business processes or systems/application development projects.
- Liaises and manages external resources and suppliers.
- Ensures appropriate procedures and processes are followed.
- Participates in design control activities, and monitors, evaluates and ensures the completion of tasks and projects.
- Reports on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
- Determines the frequency and content of status reports from the project and program team, analyse results and troubleshoot problem areas.
- Provides status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.
- Defines success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project and program life cycle.
- Communicates any project risk and issues including timing, budget, resources, scope and more to IT management.
- Collaborates closely with the Senior Project Manager and PMO Leader on enterprise projects.
- Communicates with various departmental team members to understand the business requirements.
- Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team.
- Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team.
- Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
- Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.
- Bachelors Degree/National Diplomas.
- Relevant Project Management Certifications PMP, Prince II, Scrum Master, etc.
- 2 - 3 years experience in Software Development Project Management.
- 2 3 years years of experience with full product lifecycle with understanding of development lifecycle and various technology methodologies that support that lifecycle.
- Sound experience in Software Development Lifecycle and Implementation.
