Manager, Programme

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

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.

• A degree in Business Commerce or Project Management.

Experience Required

• More than 10 years significant experience required in leading a team of project managers in order to drive the delivery of large scale change programmes in order to enable the execution of strategic business solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct quality assurance with project managers and cross-functional teams at intervals during the projects to ensure quality of output in the planning, risk management and execution of projects.
• Conduct research work with PMO's to develop tools and best practice and ensure these standards are understood and implemented across projects. Coordinate the efforts of the different project teams 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.
• Deliver risk reports to all stakeholders involved in the project team to ensure that risk is managed appropriately by engaging with project and programme boards to ensure adequate understanding and buy in to resolve risk concerns.
• Develop portfolio dashboards that monitor the delivery of all the projects in the portfolio by showing the interdependencies and the consolidated change impacts ensuring that all communication, change and journey plans are updated appropriately. Drive audit requirements, across projects, through the collaboration with assurance teams and internal audit to scope assurance reviews, delivery assurance and audits by taking accountability for the remedial actions related to the audit findings of the project implementation process.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lead a team of project managers by conducting the required training and mentoring to ensure they are fully equipped to deliver their projects in-line with best practice.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Convincing People
• Directing People
• Documenting Facts
• Embracing Change
• Following Procedures
• Making Decisions
• Managing Tasks
• Meeting Timescales
• Producing Output
• Upholding Standards

Technical Competencies:

• Project Definition
• Project Maintenance
• Project Management (Project Mgmt)
• Project Planning
• Project Reporting
• Project Resourcing