Senior Project Manager - Sandton, South Africa - Experian

Experian

Verified Company

Sandton, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Company Description

Experian plc is an Anglo-Irish multinational consumer credit reporting company.

Experian collects and aggregates information on over 1 billion people and businesses, including 235 million individual US consumers and more than 25 million US businesses.

We operate in 37 countries with offices in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil.

We employ approximately 17,000 colleagues, and last fiscal year, our year-end revenue was US$5.18 billion.

Our product proposition covers credit services, Decision Analytics and marketing assistance to businesses, including individual fingerprinting and targeting.

Job Description:

he Senior Project Manager will be responsible for multiple projects involving cross-functional teams. Manages project scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, stakeholders, integration, communications, and risks. Demonstrate strong leadership and people management skills by coordinating local/regional project teams to deliver on defined project success criteria. Serve as liaison among clients, technical and internal departments to expedite project processes.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
At least 810 years' experience as a project manager
Some Scrum Master experience or 2+ years supervisory or line management experience
Agile / Project Management Professional certifications (e.g. AgilePM, CSM, PMP, PRINCE2)

Additional Information

What you'll need to bring to the party

Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Successful project delivery track record using SDLC models and traditional project management principles and practices
Understanding of agile frameworks and methodologies
Clientcentric mindset to problem solving
Servant leadership behaviour
Ability to adapt to a changing environment

What you'll be doing

Build business cases to support the acquisition or development of critical project components or strategic initiatives
Lead the creation and updating of project charters, responsibility matrices, stakeholder management and communication plans, resource, and budget plans
Engage with business functions to consolidate highlevel and detailed scope activity definition, deliverables list, work breakdown structures, and associated work estimations
Develop and maintain project schedule plans, including summarised information on project phases, milestones and interdependencies
Provide task assignments, work direction, and guidance to the project team
Manage internal and external stakeholders throughout the execution of the project lifecycle
Identify, mitigate, and recommend alternatives to reduce risks / remove impediments that threaten the project implementation or EBIT
Facilitate project workshops / scrum events

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