Senior Project Manager at ANKH Executive

Job description

• Project Governance
  • Develop, maintain and track detailed delivery plans
  • Develop, maintain and track discrete work packages and milestones
  • Manage delivery dependencies, risks and issues
  • Construct and maintain key project artifacts – project plans, traceability matrices, reporting packs, RAID logs, lessons learned, exception reports, change logs and financial tracking documents
  • Engage with all teams, ensuring scope is clearly understood
  • Gather, analyse and document business requirements; questioning, challenging and proposing innovative, automated solutions where necessary
  • Ensure that projects are managed in line with our clients project management standards
  • Management and motivation of project teams, sometimes virtual, to deliver according to plan
  • Provides transparency on project progress, key risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and constraints, escalating to senior management when appropriate
  • Help non-technology teams plan required work to ensure compliance e.g. establishment of new compliance policy and procedures
  • Own and accountable for all deliverables within the project
  • Partners with key stakeholders to draw up and agree implementation plans
  • Lead a team representing multiple skill areas, which may include internal/external resources and customers for the development and execution of the project or team plan
  • Hands on manage data migrations, testing, change management, SOWs, contracts (full SDLC)
  • Manage and work with partners and vendors
• People Management and Development:
  
  • Utilizes strong people management skills, to build, develop and motivate team and high caliber Project Managers
  • Specifically, develops the domain (Product, Function and / or Change) knowledge of their teams
  • Utilizes strong stakeholder management skills, to understand the needs of their stakeholders and tailors their approach accordingly
• Communication
  
  • Superb C level client relationship management and issues resolution skills
  • Coordinate with cross functional teams spread globally on an ongoing basis
  • Communicate effectively the progress and relevant project information to senior management and lead discussions in ways that support strategic planning and decision-making
  • Keep project team well informed of the project direction, strategy, and inter-dependencies within the project and outside the project
  • Debate opinions and solicit authoritative perspectives/advice prior to approving plans and recommendations
  • Compile lessons learnt in a recommendations report and communicate to the team in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
  • Communicate in the most effective manner to various personnel at different level across the organization
  • Be a key player in the company’s pre-sales efforts, responding to RFIs/RFPs, conducting product demonstrations and workshops, and discussing requirements with prospects, and existing clients