Job Description
Job purpose: The purpose of the Job is to manage the delivery of Sage X3 implementations through sub-contractors or Sage resources.
Key Responsibilities
Key accountabilities and decision ownership: (8 or 10 max)
Governance – The project manager is responsible for ensuring that project are run with a suitable governance structure. This may vary between implementation partners and customers.
Scope – The project manager is responsible for tracking changes to the defined scope. A change control process should be used during implementations. The project manager is not always involved in the scope definition.
Schedule – The project manager is responsible for tracking project deliverables against an agreed schedule. If the agreed schedule changes it is the project managers responsibility to ensure the new schedule is agreed by the key stakeholders (customer / partner)
Budget – The project budget is controlled by the project manager. The project manager needs to track project costs against the base lined budget. Billing the project deliverables is also the responsibility of the project manager. The implementation partner will provide monthly billing information to the project managers. The project manager needs to submit this billing information to the accounts team in order to raise the necessary invoice/s.
Quality – The project manager needs to ensure that necessary quality measures or governance is place. Are functional documents generated, is user acceptance testing taking place. This needs to align to partner and customer processes.
Sub-Contractor – The project manager is responsible for managing the sub-contractor relationship. The sub-contractor agreement is usually established prior to the on boarding of the project manager.
Risk – identification of risks through project meetings and adhoc workshops and engagement with stakeholders is part of the project management role. The project manager should keep a register of risks. Risks can be mitigated, accepted or avoid by the project team.
Stakeholder engagement – It is the responsibility of the project manager to engage with the project stakeholders. Stakeholders that pose a risk to the project should be closely monitored.
Escalations – The project manager should escalate risks or issues that he / she is not able to manage or mitigate to the PMO head or supervisor/s. It is the responsibility of the supervisors to assist the project manager in mitigating the risks or issues.
Skills, Know-how And Experience
Must have: (5 or 6 Max)
Project Management Planning
Resource Planning
Budget Planning and Tracking
Project Activity Scheduling
Problem solving
Clear Communications Skills
Preferred: (2 or 3 Max)
