Katleho Winston Nyawuza

• Working with Executives and Departmental Heads to create roadmaps for future development aligned and prioritized to deliver Sage’s strategic and business objective
• Creating consistent and effective approach to portfolio management and investment
• Establishing suitable governance framework and portfolio structure to deliver necessary project capability to support delivery of roadmaps and business objectives
• Delivering complex series of related projects, effectively managing their interdependencies, and allocating resources to support prioritized opportunities
• Providing coaching and guidance to portfolio teams, and building and managing meaningful and supportive relationships across Sage SA

RELATIONSHIP & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

DELIVERY OF BUSINESS PROCESSESS - STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT

• Coordinate with cross-functional team to develop business process requirements.
• Contribute to and deliver on Business Unit goals and activities aligned to Organizational Strategy
• Develop and implement robust Programme plans to ensure against Business Roadmap
• Determining viable project mix, one that can meet goals of organizations.
• Monitoring the planning and execution of the chosen Programmes & projects.
• Evaluating new opportunities against the current Programme and comparatively to each other, considering the organization's Programme & project execution capacity.
• Providing information and recommendations to decision makers at all levels.
• Ensure timely and successful delivery of solutions according to business needs and objectives
• Clearly communicate progress and outcome of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders
• Liaise between Delivery departments and external regulatory institutions
• Monitor statuses of on-going projects within Programmes to ensure that projects stay on track to achieve anticipated benefits that motivate their being included in selected Programmes.
• Provide coaching and training to managers to help them to understand initiative evaluation criteria and to enable them to efficiently generate inputs for initiatives template.
• Provide stakeholders with timely assessments of Programme progress, with early identification and correction of Programme-level issues that may impact performance.
• Adjudicate resource conflicts between initiatives.
• Liaise and engage with various internal Stakeholders to secure their respective support in implementations of transformation strategies and ensuring capacity exists to implement changes.
• Review and report transformation performance and trends to respective ExCo as well as other Stakeholders.
• Manage and influence wider team individuals to deliver transformation Programme and keep to agreed timelines and commitments.
• Maintain and develop awareness of remediation management requirements, issues, and changes across Group.
• Ensure that all Programmes and initiatives complies to Group's change methodology
• Action and drive culture of proactive compliance.
• Conduct root cause analysis, design and implement mitigation plans to ensure Group is prepared for future disruption in production.
• Development of Programme update reports according to frequencies determined by key stakeholders for each Programme.
• Review reports prepared for key initiatives and write ExCo reports for those Programmes based on key risks, issues, and milestones.

RISK MANAGEMENT

• Monitor all business risk activities - including business assurance and operational risk management within operating environments through obtaining feedback and providing guidance for tactical plans to ensure compliance to Group standards.
• Drive cultures of proactive compliance and risk management within ExCo.

• Manage implementation of test strategy both in Maintenance and Project space across Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Create program management plan and prioritize projects
• Allocate and manage deliverables to test managers at programme level
• Allocate and manage risks and issues to project managers at programme level
• Manage process improvement initiatives
• Manage strategies for software testing (Manual, Automation and Performance Testing)
• Develop teams by active coaching and mentoring, and schedule external training if necessary
• Gathers and presents appropriate metrics for team and projects worked on
• Set target start dates and end dates of projects after consulting with project managers
• Manage team of Test Managers, Test Analysts and Testers to ensure effective daily operations
• Define success criteria of projects
• Ensures that projects in program are aligned with overall business strategy of organization
• Knowledge Management Implementation
• Manage inter-dependencies between projects and oversee requirements management process
• Manage Service Level Agreements (SLA's) and Office Level Agreements (OLA's) ensuring that timelines are met
• Interview and recruit new members of team including determining appropriate compensation levels with input from Human Resources

• 3G & LTE Turnkey Solutions)
• Preparation of initial project plan and master programme plan
• Preparation of budgets and cost plans
• Preparation of project execution plans
• Project managing implementation of solutions with internal and external clients
• Project tracking and documentation
• Resource planning
• Work closely with Engineers and other team members to chase up on tasks allocated to teams to ensure speedy completion of project
• Managing progress and planning of projects
• Managing of budgets
• Customer management and have clear understanding of business
• Involvement in completion of gap analyses between business and technology solutions
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate staff
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within project team
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Track project milestones and deliverables.