Job Description:
This is a 12 - month contract with our client in the banking sector
Job Purpose
To conduct the end-to-end management of the strategy; execution; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing; directing and controlling of all aspects of projects or programmes for a project function in ensuring the successful implementation of Projects to realize Nedbank strategy.
Job Responsibilities
- Model the capacity requirements across full portfolio of projects per requirements.
- Communicate the impact of capacity requirements and drive capacity planning.
- Ensure structures are in place that drive alignment of capacity requirements with strategic priority.
- Drive practices and business principles that achieve optimised capacity planning and resource allocation onto projects.
- Set up and enable the management of branch budgets against an agreed financial model that considers operations and growth strategies as these align to the Nedbank strategy.
- Participate in the strategy planning for the function.
- Ensure optimal team delivery.
- Consider the commercial relevance of the function to ensure a clear competitive capability, leveraging off leading industry benchmarks.
- Ensure value add cross pollinate successful solutions with other project management functional teams.
- Ensure that the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function.
- Manage performance of reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports.
- Actively build a culture of improvement.
- Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff.
- Optimise performance and motivation.
- Empower team to make decisions and recommend tailored solutions to Business Unit specific problems.
- Drive practices and business principles that achieve optimised capacity planning and resource allocation onto projects.
- Ensure the achievement of targets by monitoring implemented Divisional EE and Transformation Plan, correcting any deviations.
- Support Nedbank strategy by driving corporate citizenship.
- Develop, implement and measure the effectiveness of a strategy to build a differentiated culture.
- Ensure optimal team delivery
Job Responsibilities Continue
People Specification
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level:
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree
Preferred Qualification:
- SMP/ MBA or equivalent
Essential Certifications:
- PMP or Prince certification. Programme Management certification (PGMP)
Minimum Experience Level:
- 12-15 years' experience working in a project environment of large project and or programmes of which 3-5 years in Senior management roles
Technical / Professional Knowledge:
- Budgeting
- Capacity planning Capacity planning
- Change management Change management
- proficiency description of Employee training/development Employee training/development
- Financial Accounting Principles Financial Accounting Principles
- Organisational behaviour theory Organisational behaviour theory
- Relevant regulatory knowledge Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Stakeholder management Stakeholder management
- Strategic planning Strategic planning
- Business writing skills Business writing skills
Behavioural Competencies:
- Focus Customer Focus
- Business Savvy
- Building Talent
- Planning and supporting the development of individuals' knowledge, skills, and abilities so that they can fulfil current or future job responsibilities more effectively.
- Establishing and committing to a long-term business direction based on an analysis of systemic information and consideration of resources, market drivers, organizational values, and emerging economic, technological, and regulatory conditions.