Project Leadership: Drive the planning, execution, and delivery of cross-functional infrastructure and cybersecurity projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
Value Driven engagement: Constantly seek out opportunities to value add across the project delivery lifecycle and wherever is sensible to fast track tasks and optimize the end to end delivery process. Pre-emptively call out potential risks with mitigation plans, and manage issues to closure, to ensure successful project completion. Escalate potential risks early for closure.
Best Practices champion: Identify opportunities to implement best practices to enhance efficiency, drawing from the project management certification, project delivery expertise, and good governance.
Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, risks, issues and dependencies.
Dependency Mapping: Apply techniques used in managing past strategic complex deliveries and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and manage dependencies, ensuring seamless project execution and delivery.
Project Scheduling: Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, with critical path surfaced, tracking progress and optimizing timelines as necessary to meet project milestones.
Reporting: Conduct weekly working party meetings as required to ensure progress. Prepare and present comprehensive project reports to senior leadership, highlighting key metrics, challenges, and achievements.
Team Collaboration: Foster a collaborative environment among project teams, encouraging open communication and knowledge sharing to drive project success.
Financials, Procurement and Compliance: Apply deep understanding and expertise in managing project financials, procurement and compliance related endeavours related to projects deliveries. The latter are key for good governance and to ensure no breach.
Future Leadership: Position yourself as a potential future leader for the project management function within ICR, contributing to strategic planning and decision-making.