GC&I Global Contracting and Pricing Manager

PwC - Global; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 60 000 - 100 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Manager to support its Global Clients Contracting team. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance contracting and pricing activities, ensuring successful project execution. You'll leverage your strong interpersonal skills and project management expertise to build relationships and influence outcomes in a dynamic environment. With a focus on innovation, you'll have the opportunity to utilize new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, to drive improvements. If you are proactive and eager to learn, this role offers a chance to make a significant impact while enjoying a range of benefits designed to support your contributions.

Benefits

Private Medical Coverage

Virtual Healthcare

Volunteering Days

Flexible Work Options

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to influence others.
• Excellent project management skills for multiple projects.
• Familiarity with document editing in major software suites.

Responsibilities

• Support the Global Chief Contracting Officer in contracting activities.
• Build relationships with Global Client Partners and account teams.
• Share best practices and enhance tools using new technologies.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Project Management

Diplomacy

Relationship Building

Document Editing

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Project Management Certification

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Google Workspace

Job description

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in brand management, marketing, and sales focus on collaboration to develop and execute strategic sales and marketing initiatives. These individuals focus on driving revenue growth, promoting the Firm's services, enhancing brand visibility, and capturing new business opportunities. They utilize market research, digital marketing, creative campaigns, and effective sales strategies to engage clients, enhance the firm's brand and market presence, and achieve organizational targets.

Those in business development at PwC will focus on identifying and pursuing new opportunities to drive growth and expand the Firm's client base. Your work will involve building relationships, conducting market research, and developing strategic plans to drive revenue and achieve business objectives.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop, and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team members’ 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:

1. Analyze and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
2. Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
3. Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
4. Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
5. Effectively mentor others.
6. Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
7. Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members, and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
8. 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 the role:

The Project Manager is a member of the Global Clients Contracting team and has a dual role where they support the Global Chief Contracting Officer (GCCO) Chief of Staff in both contracting and pricing activities.

The Project Manager is expected to collaborate daily with various stakeholders involved in contracting and pricing activities, including Global or territory-specific teams such as Global 200 Client Partners (GCPs), account managers, chief contracting officers, global OGC, the pricing community in the Network, Network Operations, and Finance functions.

What your days will look like:

• Playing a key role in making the role of the GCCO successful in the perception of the GCPs.
• Dealing with a broad scope of topics such as contracts, client relationships, commercial strategy, network policy, and local legislations.
• Developing relationships with GCPs and their account teams while participating in deploying the global contracting policy.
• Sharing best practices learned from pricing activities and contract implementations in the Network and driving the development and enhancement of tools and templates leveraging new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.

This role is for you if:

• You possess strong interpersonal skills, diplomacy, and the capacity to influence others in fast-changing and complex environments. You are proactive and eager to learn new things.
• You excel at building relationships across functions and territories.
• You have excellent project management skills, capable of managing multiple projects while maintaining quality and cost objectives.
• You are willing to learn and act as a digital ambassador, developing proficiency in new technologies relevant to our activities.
• You have strong document editing skills, familiar with major software suites like Microsoft and Google for word processing and presentations.

What you’ll receive from us:

Our benefits are designed to support and recognize your contributions, offering flexibility, private medical coverage, virtual healthcare, volunteering days, and more.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

May 19, 2025