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Leadership and Team management

• Align project management department objectives with the organisation's strategy

• Manage Tugende’s project portfolio, prioritising internal process improvements, new business development, and partnerships projects based on strategic objectives and highest potential impact

• Provide strong leadership to the Project Management Team by effectively prioritising and allocating resources within the PM department, and ensure the project management officers can complete agreed KPIs within agreed timelines and budget

• Supporting and training project management officers on project management practices, proper planning, budgeting and stakeholder management, ensuring alignment with project management best practices and PMP certification standards, and integration of LEAN principles into project management processes.

• Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the project management department

• Document, implement and improve organisational project management department policies, procedures, and tools

• Develop and manage the project management department budget, ensuring cost-effective use of resources

Stakeholder Management

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with project sponsors and relevant stakeholders - both internal department heads and external partners - and ensure that each department/partner has what it needs to complete a project on time and within budget

• Facilitate project meetings and workshops and ensure that action items are documented and implemented in a structured way

• Coordinate project activities and identify project progress and risks and communicate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the project objectives are met

Project Management and Planning

• Support Project Management Team and Department Heads with defining issues, root causes, prioritising and developing projects

• Data analysis (both financial and non-financial), to make sure we tackle the right issue, to set goals and monitor progress on project KPIs

• Develop and manage the project’s budgets, risks, and resource allocation of assigned projects, monitor spending and ensure 100% accountability of all funds

• Oversee the development of projects and ensure that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently and timely

• Ensure that each project comes with a roll out to cause a positive change

Project Management Monitoring & Reporting

• Proactively identify problems and process inefficiencies to solve in the organisation and make recommendations to the supervisor on possible solutions

• Manage and track quarterly priority goals for the project portfolio

• Provide regular project (performance) status reports and budget management updates to senior management on project status and key performance indicators.

• Document the project’s creation, development, and execution (incl. project plan, SOP, status reports and deliverables) as well as the project’s scope, budget, justification, and evaluation (learnings) according to Project Management guidelines and templates

• Set up and monitoring project impact measurement framework ensure they are meeting company standards, adhere to budgets, meet deadlines and to track effectiveness of projects over time

  
  

New Business Development

• Collaborate with the marketing/customer insights department to conduct desk and in-field market research - including competition analysis - for new high-potential products and services aligning with the company’s priority goals, and generate a substantial pipeline for new products and services in high-potential areas/locations

• Develop cross departmental proposals to pilot new or improved products and services.

• Implement new product pilots in close cooperation with branches, including support on (field) vetting for potential clients, managing the credit and collection process for new products and services

• Cooperate with the credit department to implement the credit process for new products, establish accurate credit analyses, and recommend credit approvals

• Cooperate with procurement department to assess and recommend potential product suppliers, service providers and partners for products

• For products that will be mainstreamed i.e. post-pilot phase, develop new training materials and manage new product training with Project Management Officers for responsible (branch operations) staff, provide periodic evaluation, recommend improvement areas, and support implementation of recommendations