Project Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - TBWA South Africa

TBWA South Africa
TBWA South Africa
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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Yellowwood Future Architects is looking for a dynamic individual to take up a role of Project Manager and become a part of our team


Key Purpose:
Manage and resource and drive efficient delivery of all Yellowwood projects.


Require Knowledge and Experience:


  • Tertiary Education: Degree/Diploma in an applicable field, i.e. Project Management or recognition of prior learning (RPL)
  • Related work experience: 5 Years practical working experience
  • Project efficiency insights: sourced from hours/tasking/resourcing features of Chase

Required Skills:


  • Agility: classic project management skills of adaptability and 'moving with the changes', coming up with new resourcing plans to 'crash the schedule' and speeding up timeframes, where warranted
  • Business Intelligence: improving productivity, process efficiency, compiling simple and relatable reports for Management
  • Resourcing Intelligence: troubleshooting and identifying issues before they occur
  • Genera Resourcing capabilities: proactively, identifying resourcing scheduling conflicts/challenges earlyon & providing solutions (with assistance from Strategic Directors and Projects Directors)
- 'Implementation Phase' skills: liaison with suppliers, occasional liaison with clients (not Client Service), streamlining with other members of Support Team for process efficiency. Setting up IDIs/KPI's including Control Sheet. Back-up Assistance with Workshops and Travel (in support of a liaison who holds these key/primary tasks)
- 'Post Project Phase' skills: conduct a brief Learning Session with entire team and thereafter document and share learnings & suggest process improvements to the Strategic Directors
- 'Traffic/Resourcing' skills: classic resourcing management and pro-active feedback to management on the 'temperature' and currency capability and capacity of the Company resources. Knowing what tasks/phase/projects people are working on, what tasks are incoming, and which are completed


Required technical skills:


  • MS PowerPoint (Intermediate)
  • MS Excel (Intermediate)
  • MS Word (Intermediate)
  • Smart Sheet/MS Project (Basic)
  • Both PC and Macliterate

Personal Attributes:

Determination, pro-activity: identifying issues with timeframes/resourcing before and during Projects, Co-operative and Empathetic with an ability to work well with others under pressure
All employees are expected to embody and demonstrate the Yellowwood Values summaries as Unconventional Wisdom:

  • Originality: We are driven by the fact that every person, challenge and solution is unique. Always pushing for a better way to do something and never complacent; aways learning and improving
  • Bravery: We're not afraid to challenge or be challenged
  • Humanity: We have a genuine compassion and understanding of people and their contexts
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