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We are recruiting for a Head of the Project Management Office (PMO), who will be responsible for ensuring that programs and projects are planned, managed, and governed in a consistent, transparent, and disciplined manner.

Permanent, Cape Town based

Key Responsibilities

The position requires an experienced program management professional with the right mix of relevant experience and skills, an ability to flex between the strategic and the tactical, outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and a high level of energy and flexibility to get things done and thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented product development environment.

Manage a team of Technical Program/Project Managers who together with a Scrum Master use Agile Development Methods and the Scrum Framework to deliver critical, customer facing, enterprise software development projects into our production environment.

Lead efforts to improve our processes and make our teams highly productive.

Foster collaboration across the group cluster business and technology departments, taking full responsibility for program management, sound analysis and change leadership.

Building and maintaining strong internal customer relationships is essential as this position will work with Business Partners, internal staff, and system integrators across the group to ensure delivery of quality products in alignment with strategic objectives and requirements across the enterprise.

Responsible for hiring top talent and keeping the PMO highly engaged and motivated, delivering exceptional results.

Work across functions and teams to ensure alignment of priorities and goals, drive results and foster a culture and environment to achieve excellence and innovation.

Provide leadership and oversight to a team of technical program/project managers who use agile practices and the scrum framework for the planning, execution, and delivery of products.

• Work with Business Sponsors to develop project roadmaps that align with business objectives/priority based on resource availability and capacity constraints
• Overall responsibility for planning, executing, tracking and managing cost, schedule, and scope for all projects in the portfolio
• Direct project portfolio activities, conduct reviews, and use strong technical and business acumen to manage risk and address escalated impediments
• Implement project management governances, enforce consistency, and standardize processes across the PMO
• Manage HR and Performance aspects of employees
• Mentor and guide Project managers through their career paths

Qualifications

• Masters/ Bachelor’s degree with a focus on Portfolio Management, Finance, Information systems
• Project Management Professional (PMP®)/Prince II certification
• Working knowledge of Project Portfolio Management (PPO) and Jira planning tools.
• Experience with financial systems such as IDU
• 8-10 years of relevant work experience in Program, Project or Portfolio management.
• Previous experience in managing a portfolio of projects over R30 million.
• +8 years of experience hiring, training, mentoring and managing a project office of 5 or more members.
• Solid understanding and implementation of project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC principles and practices.
• Experience in managing programs delivered by distributed teams across the group and external business partners.
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.
• Demonstrated ability to succeed in a fast- paced environment with the ability to discover and deliver unitised investment solutions
• Independent judgment and mature decision-making skills to deal with programs that often have enterprise-wide scope and may have significant financial and compliance impacts
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. A demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
• Experience working with offshore consulting firms on enterprise-wide projects.