Project Manager

Project Manager

The Intelligent Debt Management (IDM) Group, South Africa’s largest and multi-award winning debt management company, has a position available for a Project Manager.

We are looking for an intelligent, diverse, creative, and energetic candidate to join the Projects Team with the roll out of new products, innovation, and automation projects across the business.

Requirements

Candidates must be able to demonstrate:  

• A financial or technical degree
• Experience in creating new procedures and reports
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience in managing projects

Advantageous:

• PMI or scrum Master certification
• Software development background or experience managing software development projects or complex data-driven solutions
• Leadership experience/exposure

Key competencies:

• Great communication skills (listening & understanding needs; written, verbal and presentation skills)
• Can collaborate with and engage stakeholders at all levels
• Focused and organised – can prioritise tasks and consistently deliver on tight deadlines
• Proven ability to deliver great results while under pressure
• A positive, can-do attitude
• Ability to think analytically and critically and problem solve collaboratively

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Apply best practice in managing new and ongoing projects through various stages

• Understanding business requirements, including process mapping, needs analysis and requirements drafting
• Putting the project plan together including risk assessment, timelines, and cost-benefit analysis
• Liaising with developers, QA, Technical Trainer, and other stakeholders to build, test and implement solutions
• Holding all responsible parties to account on commitments
• Communicating updates regularly regarding the tracking of projects
• Driving the implementation of the solution, by co-ordinating with relevant parties and ensuring effective change management
• Monitoring projects, providing post deployment support, and reporting on impact as well as obtaining post deployment feedback where relevant
• Collating feedback from implementation
• Hand over projects timeously to ensure healthy capacity is maintained

What’s in it for you?

Being South Africa’s largest company of its kind – IDM is continuously growing, with no signs of stopping.

One of our core values is ‘growing people’ and we take that very seriously. We have internal learning opportunities to better our people, and leaders who are experts in their fields and freely impart knowledge and are open to new ideas. As one of our people said, “you can speak to anyone here. Your rank doesn’t matter. You are listened to.”

Our culture is one of collaboration, diversity, and helpfulness. That goes for our people internally and how we deal with our clients.

At IDM, you can play a part in educating and assisting real South Africans get out of tough financial situations. You can make a difference with the work you do. Our people believe this too – one said, “I wake up each day knowing I am going to make a difference.”

Other key benefits:

• We make sure our employees are mentally and physically healthy with Healthy Together campaigns throughout the year.
• We offer various rewards and awards as tokens of recognition for hard work.
• We have a vibrant office in a lively part of the city, meaning you have easy access to stores and outlets if you need.
• We offer company benefits – like a half day off on your birthday, medical aid, retirement annuity, and further study opportunities should you meet relevant requirements.
• We have a culture of growth, meaning you have access to move both upwards or across in the business if you want to.