Senior POS Project Manager

SUMMARY:
Join a large retail enterprise with a long-term renewable contract!

POSITION INFO:

Senior Project Manager - Integration

Long Term, 12 Month Renewable Contract

Cape Town

Purpose of the Job:

To manage projects within the POS Transformation Programme.  To meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality. The ideal Project Manager must have some experience on integration between a Store System and a backend merchandising system.

Job Objectives:

• Project initiation – Project charter
• Project planning – Project management plan including:

• Project schedule
• Project budget
• Project quality plan
• Risk management plan

• Monitoring and controlling of project execution: o Project progress minutes including issue log, decision log and risk log o Project status reports o Project steering committee presentation
• Project close – close out presentation, reports and handover

Requirement

• Qualification in Project Management – PMP or Prince2
• 5-8 years Project Management in integration or POS (preferably both)
• Experience in Retail FMCG (including Customer Journeys such as Endless Aisle, Digital receipts, Queue Busting, BYOD, QSR Hospitality and Self Checkouts)
• Proven Track Record on Large Scale Projects Implementations i.e. SAP or POS Programmes
• Proven track record of experience in rollouts with large number of stores across the African continent (including South Africa) - desirable
• Highly desirable would be: POS integration project experience with knowledge around CAR (Customer activity Repository) and SAP Hana

Knowledge:

• Strong experience in Projects and Project deliverables
• Has detailed practical knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and techniques with in-depth knowledge of at least one methodology (company IT uses PMBoK/ Agile/ASAP)
• Good knowledge of the Retail business environment
• Non-RSA/ Africa Fiscal Legislation knowledge
• RSA VAT/ Fiscal Legislation knowledge

Skills:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to meet deadlines/ milestones
• Strong negotiation skills
• Experience of using project tools
• Ability to manage business expectations
• Ability to coach and mentor teammates
• Change management

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