Team Lead, Projects

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

Responsible for guiding a team to successfully complete projects within established scope, time, and budget constraints. Defining project scope, setting timelines, and creating budgets. To monitor and support the Project management aspect during the construction of bank buildings and ATM deployments. Facilitate the seamless handover of completed structures to the end user units. The job entails extensive travel to support, guide and facilitate the Bank’s property network expansion plan. Planning, organizing, and motivating team members, as well as managing resources, tracking progress, and communicating with stakeholders in ensuring smooth delivery of projects.

• Ability to plan, initiate, execute, control and close projects related to the construction of bank buildings and ATM deployments.
• The ability to compile documents, schedule meetings, update project plans, coordinate feedback and organize project related records.
• The ability to create financial reports as well as execute financial entries to monitor project financial progress and performance.
• Negotiating and documenting the timelines, cost and resources based on a specific scope.
• Supporting the process of defining the exact outcomes that projects are meant to achieve
• Defining the resource requirements for projects in terms of people, financials, systems and time.
• Knowledge and skills to produce project status reports including progress, risks, issues, resource allocation and benefits realization.
• Maintaining key elements of project plans, resources, demand plans, work breakdown and progress on a project management system.
• Focusing attention and efforts on understanding business requirements and proactively addressing different requirements and needs. Makes organizational changes or innovates when needed to address business needs.
• Ability to manage contractual obligations in order to deliver the objectives required in the contract.
• Ability to implement operational techniques and activities that are used to fulfil requirements for quality including; improvement, control, management or assurance of quality.

Qualifications

• BSc in Engineering/Project Management/Architecture/ Building Construction
• Additional qualifications like relevant Master's degree and professional certifications can be an added advantage.

Experience:

• A minimum of 7 years real estate experience

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies

• Making Decisions
• Empowering Individuals
• Upholding Standards
• Directing People
• Interacting with People

Technical Competencies

• Risk Management
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Real Estate Industry Regulatory Framework