Project Manager

Our new South Africa Technology and Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join the SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real peoples lives.

About the Role :

As a Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering successful transformation initiatives that align with our clients’ strategic objectives. Working across projects, programmes, and portfolios, you will drive impactful change, ensuring seamless execution while embedding a transformation mindset within organisations. You will be responsible for defining project scopes, managing risk, and aligning stakeholders, ensuring that every initiative delivers measurable value.

Requirements :

• 5+ Years' experience within Project Management
• Advanced knowledge of programme and project management with extensive experience in a Project Management role.
• Strong communicator and influencer who is great at connecting the dots at the organisational, strategic, and project levels.
• Project team leadership, with the ability to mobilise, inspire, and lead multidisciplinary teams, often composed of PwC, client, and external resources.
• Business and commercial acumen, with the ability to quickly develop an understanding of the business and manage delivery in complex environments.
• Proven experience in managing complex transformation projects from initiation through to closure.
• Excellent project planning skills, with experience using project management tools such as MS-Project.
• Comprehensive working knowledge of MS Office, with high proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Professional certifications (PRINCE2, APMP, PMP, Agile, Scrum) are beneficial but not essential.
• Fundamental understanding of Generative AI and a strong enthusiasm for continuous learning and upskilling in this area.

Key Responsibilities :

• Engagement Management: Lead and manage cross-functional teams across transformation engagements, taking accountability for delivery & coordination.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop robust and trusting relationships across all lines of service and external stakeholders.
• Efficient Solutions: Utilise appropriate and repeatable solutions to support high-quality, efficient outcomes, leveraging technology.
• Project Delivery: Manage end-to-end project delivery through established methodologies and processes, ensuring successful execution from initiation to closure, including effective transition to BAU and adoption of new ways of working.
• Strategic Direction: Support management in setting the strategic direction and share responsibility for project delivery.
• Quality Assurance: The ability to ensure that outputs are delivered in accordance with requirements and provide confidence to the governance board that a change initiative is on track to deliver the objectives and intended value.
• Scoping & Business Case Development: Lead the scoping of high-level project requirements and the development and preparation of business cases.
• Project Documentation: Develop and maintain project management documentation.
• Financial & Budget Management: Manage project budgets and financials in accordance with contractual agreements.
• Dependency Management: Proactively identify, track, and resolve project dependencies, ensuring alignment across projects, programmes, and portfolios.
• Project Planning: Develop and maintain structured project plans, adapting to challenges while optimising resources to achieve transformation outcomes.
• Project Reporting: Provide input into project reporting, facilitating engagement with stakeholders internally and externally.
• Risk & Issue Management: Develop and deploy active risk management processes across projects.
• Resource & Supplier Management: Oversee project resources, covering internal teams, clients, and third parties, and engage with a broad supplier ecosystem.
• Change Control Management: Develop and deploy robust change control processes.
• Technology & AI Integration: Identify opportunities to advise clients on leveraging generative AI to enhance business operations. This may include participating in AI strategy workshops, demonstrating real-life AI solutions, and supporting AI transformation projects, including new operating models and functional use cases.
• Thought Leadership: Represent PwC Operate Transformation Services at relevant events, providing insightful and thought-provoking leadership.