IT Project Manager - Mr Price Group

The Mr Price Group is recruiting a dynamic Project Manager for our IT PMO Office!

Our ideal person is a problem solver and a great communicator, does not shy away from challenging situations and accepts a high degree of responsibility for ensuring their stakeholders are delighted and the business always benefits.  

Responsibilities

• Working with an awesome team of Project Managers and Project Administrators.
• Be part of growing the PMO office, as we always looking for new ways to improve our methodology and process.
• Run daily stand-ups with your team ensuring plans are in motion and on target.
• Collaborate with the various team members of the projects assigned to you, such as developers architects and business analysts.
• Review your plans and budgets across your projects.
• Effectively communicating project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Drafting presentations for key engagements like Project update meetings and Steering committees.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project life cycle.
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Review of commercial agreements from third parties.

• Ensuring risks and issues that may impact your project are identified, managed, and escalated if required.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Conduct requests for proposals for exciting new solutions.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals, with the Portfolio Manager
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.
• Determine and assess the need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during the project cycle.

Qualifications

• Relevant Business or IT Degree 
• 5+ years in a Project Manager role (in both systems development and Infrastructure)
• Project management certifications or demonstrable career development activities would be a massive advantage 

Plus experience with:

• Infrastrucure and Networks 
• The systems development lifecycle, and methodologies such as waterfall and agile.
• Leading projects successfully (including leading teams, budgeting, planning, quality management, problem-solving, reporting, and managing risk)
• Project Management principles & ability to use ‘best practice’ in all aspects of project management, with a focus on practical results rather than process
• Approach to, benefits delivery – from strategy to realization
• MS Project and Project Online
• Retail sector and broad understanding of traditional and new technologies used in retail and online environments