Job role overview

  • Date posted

    October 9, 2026

  • Closing date

    November 8, 2026

  • Hiring location

    Gauteng

  • Experience

    None

Description

ROLE IMPACT

  • The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the delivery of key business projects within BME that are important to operational performance and strategic outcomes, deployment/roll-out of new technology and/or software.

These projects typically operate in environments where:

  • Accountability is diffused or unclear.
  • Teams are delivery‑capable but not naturally goal‑driven.
  • Strong functional leadership is inconsistent or absent.
  • Progress depends on influence, structure, and follow‑through rather than authority.
  • The role exists to create momentum, clarity, and ownership where it does not naturally exist, ensuring projects move from intent to execution and deliver tangible outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Delivery & Execution

  • Take full accountability for end‑to‑end delivery of assigned BME projects, from initiation through to closure.
  • Convert broad or poorly defined objectives into clear scope, milestones, deliverables, and success measures.
  • Establish realistic project plans, governance rhythms, and reporting that support delivery rather than bureaucracy.
  • Actively manage risks, dependencies, and constraints in environments with limited escalation paths.
  • Ensure projects achieve practical business outcomes, not just task completion.

Working in Low‑Ownership Environments

  • Operate effectively in teams that are not naturally goal‑orientated or delivery‑driven.
  • Proactively create clarity around roles, expectations, and ownership without relying on positional authority.
  • Identify gaps in accountability and close them through facilitation, structure, and persistence.
  • Coach and support team members to move from passive participation to active ownership.
  • Maintain progress and delivery discipline even when teams lack strong internal leadership.

Stakeholder & Communication Management

  • Act as the central point of coordination and communication for assigned projects.
  • Provide clear, concise, and honest updates on progress, risks, and decisions required.
  • Manage expectations effectively in environments where priorities frequently shift.
  • Escalate issues constructively, with solutions and options rather than problems alone.

Cross‑Functional & Cross‑Team Leadership

  • Lead delivery across multiple functions, teams, and stakeholders with differing priorities and incentives.
  • Build working relationships across BME and adjacent functions to enable cooperation and decision‑making.
  • Navigate organisational complexity and ambiguity with a pragmatic, solution‑focused approach.
  • Align stakeholders around shared outcomes where formal alignment mechanisms are weak or absent.

Delivery Discipline & Continuous Improvement

  • Introduce fit‑for‑purpose delivery practices appropriate to the scale and complexity of each project.
  • Ensure lessons learned are captured and applied to future work.
  • Maintain a strong bias toward action, progress, and outcomes over process for its own sake.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

  • Relevant tertiary qualification in Business, Engineering, IT, or a related field
  • Demonstrated practical experience will be weighted more heavily than certification

Certifications

  • Formal Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) is advantageous but not mandatory

Experience

  • Extensive experience managing projects in complex, ambiguous organisational environments
  • Proven ability to deliver where teams lack maturity in ownership, accountability, or goal orientation
  • Strong influencing skills, with the ability to lead without formal authority
  • High emotional intelligence and resilience when dealing with resistance, inertia, or ambiguity
  • Practical, hands‑on delivery capability rather than reliance on formal methodologies alone
  • Confidence working across multiple functions where leadership strength varies significantly

Advantageous

  • Modern digital or technology‑enabled transformation initiatives
  • Process improvement or operational change projects
  • Working alongside IT, data, or digital teams in delivery environments
  • Understanding of maintenance-, asset management processes within the mining sector would be advantageous.

Key Competencies

  • Business Process maps, process interactions and dependencies, etc.
  • IT processes
  • A more detailed understanding of D365 workflows, datasets and other capabilities, is beneficial to the role.
  • Strong stakeholder management capability.
  • Working with various roles, across function and at various levels.
  • Firm understanding of Project Management tooling, processes and reporting standards.

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