About this role
Primary Objective
• Lead and manage end-to-end programme/ project planning, executing, monitoring and controlling to ensure successful implementation to meet expected outcome(s) • Review and refine project detailed scope, budgets, deliverables and schedule • Lead and regularly review to ensure project progress and budgets are on-track and recommend course correction actions if required • Develop solutions/ initiatives to meet expected targets and outcomes • Independently manage and is accountable for multifaceted projects involving system implementations, business process improvement, transformation and strategy • Serves as the main liaison with Senior Management, project sponsor and key stakeholders on project progress and updates
Project Planning & Management
• Review and refine project scope, deliverables and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value and outcome • Define scope of engagement with stakeholders and organize engagement sessions with stakeholders • Carry out peer analysis and relevant research to validate and firm up pain points, challenges and solutions • Review and update project status and progress • Track, prepare and share progress reports • Identify deviations from plans and recommend course correction actions • Monitor actual cost against budget • Prepare proposal and approval paper for identified projects to secure buy-in, approval and sign-off from management and committee
Project Team Management
• Remove roadblocks to team’s work and deliverables • Leverage organizational resources to improve capacity for project work • Ensure team members are engaged and committed and making a meaningful contribution and encourage a sustainable pace with high-level of quality for the team
Project Owner Support
• Support Project Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications and helping to implement an effective system of project governance
Process Management and Improvement
• Define and manage well-defined project management process and champion on-going process improvement initiatives to implement best practices