Job Summary
- Project Management Office (PMO)
- Department: Group IT / Project Delivery
- Reporting Line: IT Project Delivery Executive
Job Purpose
- To lead the delivery of complex Supply Chain and Logistics projects across the organisation, ensuring adherence to PMO governance standards, effective stakeholder engagement, and successful delivery of strategic business outcomes. The role will manage cross-functional business and IT teams, vendors, and programme stakeholders across Distribution Centre, Warehouse, distribution, procurement, inventory and supply chain optimisation initiatives.
Key Accountabilities
Project Delivery & Governance
- Lead and manage end-to-end delivery of Supply Chain, Distribution Centre and Warehouse projects from initiation through to closure. Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and resource plans. Ensure projects adhere to PMO methodology, governance, and reporting standards. Track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions. Support governance forums including Steering Committees and working groups.
Reporting & Controls
- Prepare and present weekly and monthly project status reports. Provide executive dashboards and summaries for senior stakeholders. Maintain accurate RAID, decision and action logs. Ensure transparency and timely escalation of risks and issues. Support project assurance, readiness and compliance reporting.
Financial, Resource & Vendor Management
- Manage project budgets, forecasts and financial tracking. Support business case development and benefits tracking. Manage vendor engagement, contracts and delivery oversight. Coordinate project resource planning and utilisation.
Stakeholder & Delivery Collaboration
- Facilitate workshops, planning sessions and stakeholder engagement forums. Collaborate with Supply Chain, Operations, Finance and IT stakeholders. Drive alignment between business priorities and technology delivery. Support change management and adoption activities.
- Tools & Delivery Enablement
- Maintain project data within the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool. Use Microsoft Teams and SharePoint for collaboration and document control. Ensure consistent use of project delivery tools and templates.
Minimum Qualifications
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Engineering or related discipline.
- PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent certification required.
- Programme management certification (MSP or equivalent) advantageous.
Minimum Experience
- 8+ years’ experience in Project Management.
- 3+ years’ experience managing programmes or multiple interdependent projects.
- Proven experience delivering Distribution Centre and Warehouse transformation projects (essential).
- Experience delivering Supply Chain, Logistics or Distribution initiatives.
- Experience working in retail and/or pharmaceutical environments advantageous.
- Experience managing third-party vendors and system integrators.
Travel Requirements:
- Travel locations: Cape Town (based in Woodstock or Montague Gardens dependent on the workload) but travel in the country will be a requirement
- Expected frequency/amount of travel per month: (less than 20%) , note only 1-day WFH is our policy
- Project manager to support all business go lives nationally and be onsite during the hypercare period
Overtime Expectations:
- Anticipated overtime per week/month: Overtime to be approved by Programme Manager
- Overtime rates and thresholds: As per contracted hourly rate
Knowledge & Skills
- Advanced project and programme delivery expertise. Strong understanding of Distribution Centre and Warehouse operations and systems.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Financial management and budgeting capability.
- Experience with MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet or similar tools.
- Strong risk and issue management skills.
- Understanding of change management practices and delivery lifecycles.
Behavioural Competencies
- Strategic thinking Leadership and influence Execution excellence Stakeholder management Resilience Communication and presentation
Interfaces
- Internal: Group IT, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, PMO, Business Stakeholders.
- External: Vendors, System Integrators and Service Providers
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