Description
Project Manager - Enterprise Software - Freelance - Johannesburg
Key Responsibilities:
. Work directly with the customers to initiate and manage their digital marketing and transformation projects
* Working at multiple levels with the customer, you will evaluate the proposed solution, assess risks, confirm requirements, manage scope, and manage resource requirements. You will oversee delivery and acceptance of the project from project initiation through planning, executing, monitoring to closing.
. You will help the customer to leverage the benefits of the software by understanding their business challenges and helping them to build innovative solutions with measurable ROI.
. Lead teams in project scoping activities to identify, gather and analyse requirements, define key business drivers and define an effective and innovative solution.
. Planning, monitoring and reporting of project execution (risks management, budget, timeline, etc.).
. Management of project resourcing and commercials including forecasting, time management and invoicing.
. Help customer to succeed in their digital transformation journey by providing guidance, industry leading practices and advice.
. Active participation in PMO practice development.
Key Skills Required:
. Strong foundational project management skills and experience, delivering large enterprise digital marketing solutions for a software vendor, or mixed vendor/customer background.
. Ability to manage large single projects or multiple concurrent smaller projects.
. A professional project management qualification, eg PRINCE2, PMI.
. Experience in managing the delivery of projects using an agile methodology, eg SCRUM.
. Strong personality, prioritisation and communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) to Executive level within an organisation
. A business consulting background
. Ability to work with virtual internal teams across geographies and time zones
Project Manager - Enterprise Software - Freelance - Johannesburg