Portfolio Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - The Recruiters

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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 month ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Title:


Portfolio Manager - Centurion - Salary commensurate with experience:


Salary:


  • Commensurate with experience

Description:


  • Our client leader insurance is looking for an Experienced Portfolio Manager to join their team.
  • Responsibilities and work outputs (not limited to):
  • Portfolio management
Ensure that the organization\'s business and financial objectives and strategic goals are clearly articulated and accessible.

  • Investigate the feasibility of initiatives in support of business strategy and objectives
  • Facilitate, with the business executive team, initiative selection/approval and strategic prioritization to ensure maximum value to the business and prioritization of risk and compliance initiative.
  • Maintain the overall business portfolio, with timeous inclusion of initiatives being implemented in the product/agile delivery teams.
  • Ensure crossproduct dependencies are managed
  • Establish and implement metrics to measure the effectiveness of initiatives in line with goals and key performance indicators
  • Ensuring the portfolio is meeting the stated goals and objectives and delivering on the expected return on investment
  • When needed, highlight initiatives that could be terminated/stopped that are no longer contributing to the overall business strategy and objectives
  • Creating reporting documentation to communicate progress and other portfolio metrics.
  • Resource Management: Collaborate with line managers to ensure the team is properly staffed with the right capacity and competencies to deliver on initiatives and when needed facilitate the (re)allocating of resources throughout the life cycle of the portfolio.
  • Oversee the achievement and risk "blockers" related to product deliveries
  • Partner with product teams to review lean business cases, linking business benefits to investments for funding and allocation requests
  • Ensure agile principles and practices are applied consistently
  • Oversee the creation and review of key metrics, outcomes, and reporting related to key milestones and objectives
  • Assess and report the health of product deliveries with objectivity, accuracy, and transparency
  • Ensure that appropriate stakeholders are engaged in risk identification and mitigation
  • Predict and identify risks/opportunities from interdependencies of product deliveries
  • Support the identification/removal of barriers to delivery
  • Promote the pace and energy within the team and leading by example
  • Strong commitment and support for the success of the team and is outcomes
  • Agile delivery
Develop agile delivery best practices and collaborate with project managers and business stakeholders to maintain standards for project management and embed good agile delivery principles

  • Key stakeholder engagement with areas in the company to align on the delivery of initiatives
- to evaluate delivery processes and practices to find and support the best ways of delivery for the business

  • People goals
Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with diverse leaders

  • Proven experience managing effective programmes in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or other agile delivery
  • Strong ability to design and implement dashboards; ability to analyze data and present it in a way that tells a story
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, can handle the unexpected with flexibility
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.
  • Ability to work with a collaborative approach and build trust with others

Category:


  • Sales

General Requirements:


  • 7+ years experience in a dedicated project management position (essential)
  • Experience with managing largescale programmes from conceptualization to closeout (essential)
  • Experience with managing a portfolio of work
  • 3 — 5 years in a senior management position (desirable)
  • Business experience — understanding of business and business processes
  • Proficient understanding of the Insurance industry

Location:


  • Johannesburg

Consultant:

**Cara Styles
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