Senior Project Manager

Location Cape Town
Discipline: IT & Telecoms
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Jacqui Dill

Contact email: jacqui@networkersint.co.za
Job ref: 46136
Published: 28 days ago

A senior delivery role at the centre of complex rewards programme initiatives, where structure, coordination, and execution come together to drive measurable outcomes. This opportunity suits someone who understands the full rewards lifecycle and can bring clarity, governance, and momentum across multiple workstreams in a dynamic environment

What you will do
  • Establish and maintain the end-to-end project delivery framework across all workstreams

  • Define governance structures, forums, roles, and responsibilities

  • Develop and manage a consolidated project plan with clear milestones and interdependencies

  • Coordinate and facilitate workshops with stakeholders, delivery teams, and external vendors

  • Track progress and provide consolidated reporting with clear RAG status indicators

  • Manage risks, issues, and dependencies across business and technology teams

  • Oversee vendor engagement and contracting timelines where required

  • Ensure alignment across business, technology, compliance, and operations

  • Provide regular updates to senior stakeholders on progress, risks, and blockers

  • Support change management planning to enable adoption of new capabilities

Requirements and Education
  • 8–10 years’ project management experience with delivery of multiple complex, strategic initiatives

  • Proven experience within rewards programmes, including rewards models, rule changes, partnerships, and lifecycle management non-negotiable

  • Experience operating in complex, evolving environments with multiple stakeholders

  • Strong stakeholder management, decision-making, and influencing capability

  • Agile project methodology experience

  • Relevant tertiary qualification in Finance, IT, or Computer Science

  • Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Agile, SAFe or similar

  • Preferred certification in Scrum (CSM)

  • Exposure to rewards programmes and data analytics initiatives advantageous

Call to action

If this aligns with your experience in rewards programme delivery, reach out for a confidential discussion