Senior Manager: Project Management

ABSA

Johannesburg, South Africa
Hybrid
Lean portfolio management
Strategic transformation initiatives
Governance and assurance leadership
Provide strategic end-to-end programme and project management leadership across complex, high-value, cross-functional Channel initiatives, ensuring the successful delivery of transformation outcomes aligned to business strategy

Job Summary

  • Provide strategic end-to-end programme and project management leadership across complex, high-value, cross-functional Channel initiatives, ensuring the successful delivery of transformation outcomes aligned to business strategy.
  • Drive and influence Lean Portfolio Management outcomes by contributing to portfolio shaping, prioritisation, sequencing, and investment decision-making aligned to strategic objectives, funding guardrails, value realisation, and delivery capacity.
  • Build and manage trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Business, Change, Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, and Executive governance structures.

Matching Summary

Provide strategic end-to-end programme and project management leadership across complex, high-value, cross-functional Channel initiatives, ensuring the successful delivery of transformation outcomes aligned to business strategy.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Lean Portfolio Management
  • strategic transformation initiatives
  • governance and assurance leadership
  • stakeholder and executive relationship management
  • delivery discipline and quality standards

Nice-to-have

  • customer-centric solutions
  • collaboration and influencing skills
  • agility and adaptability
  • problem solving and decision making

Key Requirements

  • Minimum NQF Level 7 qualification or equivalent
  • 5-8 years experience in project and programme delivery
  • Proven experience managing large-scale programmes
  • Experience in portfolio prioritisation and investment planning

Work Rights

Not specified

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