Business Project Manager, People & Culture, DIO

Business Segment: Group Functions

Company: Standard Bank of South Africa

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 5 Simmonds Street

To manage and coordinate the execution of a portfolio of projects, through the leadership of cross-functional teams and project managers in order to deliver large scale business solutions within the required parameters in terms of scope, cost and quality, across the People & Culture value chain.

Degree in Business Commerce / Project Management

• 10 years or more deep understanding of agile and waterwall project management methodologies and approaches to manage complex, multi-disciplinary projects and the flexibility to influence diverse and dynamic teams to deliver balanced and integrated solutions.
• Must have experience in leading a team of project leads in order to drive the delivery of large-scale change programmes, enabling the execution of strategic business solutions.
• Good understanding of People & Culture in order to effectively support the P&C stakeholders.
• Guide the prioritisation of projects, across the portfolio, by contributing an expert view on the current demand on resources and the business rationale for the planned changes.
• Engage with Business Sponsors to ensure adequate buy-in and support is provided for the projects by aligning the Business area's requirements with that of the senior management and sponsors direction of the Business.
• Engage with members of the Finance team for complex or expensive business cases to ensure that the benefits case is adequately challenged and sound by monitoring ongoing project spend against delivery milestones and highlight all key concerns of overshoot to the project owners.
• Identify and leverage common goals whilst managing projects across the portfolio by providing guidance to the Business around integration of timelines and final objectives as well as provide an estimation of what the final impact of the common goals will look like.
• Oversee the changes and updates made to all aspects of the project plans by engaging with the project teams to ensure that all changes and updates remain governed and compliant with all regulations as set by Standard Bank Group (SBG).
• Review and engage in the approval of the project business cases by determining the accuracy of the resource forecast and the financial calculations of the project in order to control and manage project costs and align to the set budget.
• Conduct quality assurance with project leads and cross-functional teams at intervals during the projects to ensure quality of output in the planning, risk management and execution of projects.
• Coordinate the efforts of the different project leads to minimise duplication of effort, maximise efficiency and value for money by re-balancing resources (people, budgets, equipment) between the different project teams within overall approved resources for the year.