Enterprise Transformation Consultant - Transformation Delivery & Execution (PPM)

PwC; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC’s South Africa Technology & Innovation Centre seeks an experienced Manager to lead project portfolio management across large-scale transformation programmes. You will coach teams, manage budgets and timelines, and drive delivery with senior stakeholders while upholding PwC standards and client value.

You will partner with multi-disciplinary teams, ensure governance and reporting, and cultivate a high-performance delivery culture across the programme lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience leading projects and PMO functions.
• Ability to manage budgets, timelines and resources.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication.
• Proven leadership and coaching skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects, programme workstreams or PMO functions across complex transformation programmes.
• End-to-end delivery from mobilisation to post-deployment review.
• Establish and maintain programme governance, delivery controls and reporting structures.
• Own integrated project plans with milestones, dependencies, risks and resources.
• Provide leadership to PMO or project resources to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Develop executive-level programme reporting and materials for client leadership.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

PMO governance

Job description

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery.

In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member's unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

About PwC SATIC and the Role

PwC's South Africa Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is a strategic delivery hub within PwC's global network, supporting large-scale transformation programmes through human-led, technology-enabled delivery.

As part of PwC Ireland 's Transformation Pillar's Portfolio & Programme Management (PPM) capability, you will play a leading role in delivering complex business and technology-enabled transformation programmes for Irish clients.

The PPM capability provides the delivery discipline, governance, planning and control required to move complex programmes from strategy through to execution. Our teams work across Programme Management, Project Management and Project Management Office (PMO) delivery, helping clients navigate complexity, manage delivery risk and realise sustainable business value.

At Manager level, you will take ownership of significant projects, workstreams or PMO functions, providing day‑to‑day leadership across delivery while managing complex stakeholder relationships and supporting senior programme governance.

You will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, bringing structure to complex delivery environments, anticipating challenges and ensuring that programmes remain focused on their strategic objectives and intended value.

What You Will Do

As a Manager, you will:

• Lead projects, programme workstreams or PMO functions across complex business and technology-enabled transformation programmes.
• Take ownership of end-to-end project and programme delivery, from mobilisation, scope definition and business case development through planning, implementation and post‑deployment review.
• Establish and maintain effective programme governance, delivery controls and reporting structures.
• Own integrated project and programme plans, ensuring effective management of milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, resources and delivery priorities.
• Provide leadership and oversight to other PMO or project resources, ensuring quality, consistency and timely delivery across the team.
• Lead programme governance forums and senior stakeholder meetings, including preparing agendas and materials, facilitating decision‑making and ensuring actions and decisions are effectively managed.
• Develop and quality‑assure executive‑level programme reporting, presentations, governance packs and decision materials for senior client and leadership audiences.
• Build and manage relationships with senior client stakeholders, navigating complex stakeholder environments and aligning different perspectives around programme priorities and outcomes.
• Proactively identify programme risks, delivery challenges and emerging issues, developing practical interventions and recovery actions where required.
• Manage scope, change, communications and stakeholder‑engagement activities across complex delivery environments.

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