We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with 10+ years of experience delivering complex business and technology initiatives. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record of managing cross-functional teams, multiple stakeholders, and external vendors while driving successful project outcomes.
Responsibilities:
Timeline Management, Project Planning, Monitoring and Coordination:
- Develop and maintain project timelines, milestones, and delivery schedules.
- Track project progress against planned dates and identify potential delays early.
- Manage dependencies and coordinate activities to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
- Reassess timelines and implement recovery plans when delivery risks arise.
- Provide regular updates on milestone achievement and schedule performance.
- Facilitate governance meetings, project reviews and stakeholder discussions.
- Track action items, dependencies and decisions to ensure smooth project execution.
- Escalate critical risks and blockers promptly and drive resolution.
Stakeholder Management:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with project stakeholders.
- Engage stakeholders throughout project lifecycle to ensure alignment on objectives, scope, priorities and expected outcomes.
- Manage stakeholder expectations through proactive communication and transparent reporting.
- Communicate project progress, risks, issues, dependencies and key decisions in a timely manner.
- Influence stakeholders to secure support, resources, and commitment needed for successful delivery.
- Escalate critical matters appropriately and facilitate timely resolution of challenges.
- Ensure stakeholder feedback is incorporated into project planning and delivery activities.
Risk Management:
- Identify potential project risks and issues, developing proactive mitigation strategies.
- Monitor risk factors and take corrective action when necessary to keep the project on track.
Budget and Resource Management:
- Monitor project expenditure, forecasts and budget utilization throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure project spending aligns with approved scope, business priorities and expected outcomes.
- Plan and coordinate resource allocation to ensure the right skills and capacity are available throughout the project lifecycle.
- Monitor resource utilization and proactively address capacity constraints, competing priorities and resource gaps.
The candidate should have:
- Strong experience in managing large-scale, complex projects from initiation through implementation.
- Proven ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams across business and technology functions.
- Experience in vendor management, including delivery oversight, performance monitoring and stakeholder coordination.
- Good understanding and practical application of Agile frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban or Hybrid delivery models.
- Strong project governance, risk management, planning, and execution capabilities.
- A proactive, results-oriented and transformation-focused mindset with the ability to drive change and continuous improvement.
Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, business needs, and delivery environments.
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and manage competing priorities.
Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
Ability to build strong relationships and work effectively with senior leaders, business partners and delivery teams.
PersonalAttributes
- Self-motivated and proactive
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills
- Outcome and customer-focused
- Continuous improvement mindset
