Senior Project manager / Business analyst - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 21-10-2014 11:38:23 AM
18-11-2014 11:38:23 AM
Senior Project manager / Business analyst
Cape town
Market related salary

IT / Digital Agency experience is vital including web technology experience – if you don’t have this , please do not apply

ONLY shortlisted candidates will be contacted

It is essential that you understand internet technologies and terminology and the workflow of a typical digital project lifecycle. You will have experience working in a digital agency environment and have a good working understanding in project planning, project management, client expectation management, risk management and pressure situation management.

Key Requirements
• A degree or similar qualifications
• 3+ years of project management or business analyst experience within an IT or agency environment
• Experience interfacing with clients and managing client expectations
• Experience creating BRS, SOW, FSD, MS Project Plan documentation for web projects
• Experience working with Agile / SCRUM methodologies and ability to help refine & implement this process
• Plan resourcing, track timelines and provide feedback to the Operations Director on team project progress
• Experience using project management tools like Redmine / Jira etc
• End to end project testing and ability to implement ‘Testing & QA’ processes into our SDLC (where no ‘formal’ processes may exist).
• Good knowledge of the terminology and technical aspects related to web & mobile development
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Prepared to travel, if necessary

Key Responsibilities
• Managing your own set of more complex (bigger budget) client projects
• Meet daily/weekly with the PM team to ensure all projects are on track
• Oversee the internal SCRUM process
• You will be the first point of contact for the PM team and for clients to escalate any project issues.
• You will quality check and input into every Cost Estimate, Proposal, SOW, Project Plan, UX/Wireframes, FSD’s and Testing processes for all projects
• Analyse and advise on all client project requirements; technical solutions development; and technical issues from a client management perspective
• Implement a formal testing & QA process that we can then sell into clients as a standalone testing service
• Input into development and technical discussions

• New business sales and sales costings
• Manage the project management team (5x staff)
• Inputting feedback on staff annual reviews
• Mentoring and motivating the team

Key Skills
• MS Project
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) – are essential
• Understanding of internet technologies (HTML, CSS, JS, .NET)
• Understanding of CMS products like Umbraco (very advantageous); Episerver; Wordpress; Drupal
• Excellent command of the English language, both written and verbal
• Excellent attention to detail
• A complete understanding of the digital process and how to run production resources
• Military-like organizational and time management skills
• Multitasking skills and the ability to very comfortably juggle multiple projects/tasks
• Ability to recommend and define processes to continuously improve the business
• Ability to understand a client’s business and project requirements
• A team player with good interpersonal skills to deal with various personalities
• A passion for the online industry a true digital enthusiast!

Recruiter: PeopleSource