Digital Transformation Portfolio Manager
Apply locations: Gauteng, Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 2 Days Ago
Time left to apply: End Date: December 28, 2024 (27 days left to apply)
Job requisition id: JR101359
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Job Purpose
The Digital Transformation Portfolio Manager provides accountable oversight to a portfolio of Digital Transformation initiatives, applying industry best practices to manage the intake, scoping, planning, staffing, execution methodology, and long-term road mapping of projects within the portfolio. The position is for a highly skilled leader with a strong Digital Transformation background. This role requires a deep understanding of digital technologies, strong leadership skills, and experience managing teams. The Digital Transformation Portfolio Manager will work and collaborate across various organisational functions to ensure business value is delivered per organisational strategic goals.
Responsibilities
- Digital Strategy/Transformational Projects and Programs Execution
Manage and deliver end-to-end digital programs and initiatives, leveraging agile and design-thinking principles to drive sustainable implementation. Leading the execution of the Digital Transformation Strategy, including AI and innovation, ensuring alignment between business goals and transformative initiatives. Supporting Digital Transformation leadership in strategic planning efforts. - Budgeting and Costing
Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues. Developing and managing a budget for the digital transformation teams & initiatives to ensure projected revenue goals are met. Develop and execute budgets. Determine reuse and design-to-cost strategies. - Stakeholder Management
Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across the program to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice at both project and program levels. Partnering with relevant business, Digital and department leadership stakeholders to align programs and their constituent projects with enterprise strategy and business / departmental goals. Act as a trusted advisor to business as well as specialist support functions, building strong relationships and understanding business & technical needs. - Digital Reporting and Review
Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at agreed review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change. Ensure ongoing measurement/reporting of Digital Transformation Delivery process efficiency, compliance, maturity and value. Report portfolio status board timely and accurate information focused on decision making. - Digital Marketing Capabilities
Support creation of the digital marketing road map and lead specific capability building initiatives, collaborating with technology partners and enterprise teams. Support identification of opportunities for capability building. Frequently and effectively communicating the Digital Transformation capabilities (aligned to vision) throughout the organisation. - Innovation Strategy, Pipeline and Roadmap (Digital Transformation Roadmap)
Champion an innovation stream within the innovation road map, ensuring the right resources are in place to execute on the strategy. Defining a digital transformation road map to transform the business, identifying the domains and activities that benefit from rapid digitization. - Project Team Management
Lead a medium to large project team; defines the project vision and communicates the outcomes needed along with guidance to achieve outcome, coordinates team actions on project activities; coordinates flow of additional team members on and off the team as needed; and works to build the capability of the team through training, coaching and mentoring. - Project Governance
Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organisation's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes. - Program/Portfolio Management
Plan and manage the delivery of projects within an area of professional expertise, using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are achieved. - Project Benefit Realisation
Develop and manage the delivery of a plan to evaluate and track business benefits and to identify actions needed to maximise these. - Leadership and Direction
Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organisation's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
Education
Bachelor’s degree required (Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field) (Essential); Relevant industry certification such as PMI Project/Program/Portfolio Management Professional PgMp (Essential); Master’s degree (MBA) (Advantageous); PfMP/P3O/ Scaled Agile (Advantageous)
Experience
At least 10 years of work experience in a project management capacity, leading multiple initiatives (Essential); At least 5 years of Portfolio management experience required (Essential); 4 or more years of direct experience leading digital transformations or digital ecosystem implementations (Advantageous); 5 or more years experience in a leadership position (Essential)
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