Senior Project Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - H2R Africa

Description

The client is embarking on a major HR Transformation programme, and requires a seasoned project manager with an HR background and exceptional stakeholder management skills to lead and deliver this project.

The project consists of 4 major pillars:
1. Contract standardisation across the organisation
2. End-to-end remuneration review
3. Employee excellence reward programme
4. Union engagement

The successful Project Manager will:

• Manage the daily delivery of projects in accordance with project objectives and delivery scope.
  • Support development of or facilitate quality assurance on requirements and solution design, including effective visibility on poor quality.
  • Translate scope, requirements and solution design to an effective work breakdown.
  • Structure and planning roadmap.
  • Ensure effective delivery resource management and delivery governance in alignment with project and work breakdown structure milestones, including approvals and change control governance.
  • Manage completeness and quality of documentation to support project delivery.
  • Ensure effective project operationalisation, handover and project close-out.
• Effectively manage delivery risk to ensure optimal delivery within the agreed risk appetite.
  • Identify, create visibility and ensure alignment on delivery risks
  • Effectively facilitate remediation and / or escalation of delivery risks on projects.
• Manage financial resources.
  • Support development of or facilitate quality assurance on project budget estimations.
  • Manage project expenses in alignment with project budgets with effective governance and risk management actions.
  • Monitor and support the achievement of business benefits.
• Deliver a value proposition to customers and internal team that adds strategic value to the organisation.
  • Participate and take ownership to optimise processes, governance and enablement tools.
  • Play a thought leadership role on projects to align to strategy, identify opportunities, connect dots and improve the quality of solutioning and delivery.
  • Identify and implement measurable actions to create tangible value for business and project owners (delivery resource efficiencies, turn-around time reduction, cost efficiencies, integrated planning etc.).