Project Manager

Solidproject; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 280,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Solidproject in Pretoria is seeking a mid-level Project Manager to lead client projects from kick-off to sign-off across websites, campaigns, branding and content.

You will maintain clear client communication, manage timelines and budgets, and collaborate with designers, developers and copywriters. The role reports to operations and requires strong organisation, proactive problem-solving, and daily use of ClickUp.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of end-to-end project management experience.
• Experience in agency, studio, or in-house marketing teams.
• Able to manage multiple projects and maintain client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Run client projects end to end: kick-off, scope, timeline, delivery and sign-off.
• Keep ClickUp accurate to show due, blocked, and done.
• Brief the team and protect them from moving goalposts.
• Hold the weekly rhythm: status updates to clients and team check-ins.
• Spot scope creep early and raise it as a conversation.
• Chase content, approvals, and feedback from clients.
• Two years or more running projects in agency, studio, or marketing team.
• Confident with clients and able to deliver awkward news.
• Comfortable with project software; ClickUp daily.
• Understand web and marketing timelines.
• Organised by instinct; manage what lives in head.
• Judgement to know which problems to solve yourself vs upscale.

Skills

Project management

Client management

Time management

Communication

Organisational skills

Tools

ClickUp

Job description

Most agency work does not fail on talent. It fails on the gap between what a client expected and what actually arrived. Closing that gap is this job. You will run client projects from kick-off to sign-off, keep designers, developers and copywriters pointed in the same direction, and make sure nobody is guessing about where things stand.

Seniority

Mid-level

Type

Full-time

Market-related

Area

Pretoria, hybrid

The role

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You will own a portfolio of client projects across websites, marketing campaigns, brand work and content. These are your projects and your client relationships from the start. That means scoping the work properly, holding the timeline, spotting trouble before it becomes a late delivery, and being the person the client speaks to when they want to know how things are going. You will work closely with our existing project manager and report to operations.

What you will do

• Run client projects end to end: kick-off, scope, timeline, delivery and sign-off.
• Keep ClickUp accurate so everyone can see what is due, what is blocked and what is done.
• Brief the team properly, then protect them from moving goalposts once work is underway.
• Hold the weekly rhythm: status updates to clients, check-ins with the team, nothing going quiet.
• Spot scope creep early and raise it while it is still a conversation instead of an invoice dispute.
• Chase the small things that hold up delivery: content from clients, approvals, feedback, access.
• Two years or more running projects, ideally in an agency, studio or in-house marketing team.
• Confident with clients. You can deliver awkward news early and keep the relationship intact.
• Comfortable with project software. We run on ClickUp, and you will be in it every day.
• Enough understanding of web and marketing work to know when a timeline is unrealistic.
• Organised by instinct. Nothing lives only in your head.
• The judgement to know which problems to solve yourself and which to upscale.

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Someone who can hold several projects in their head at once and still know exactly what is due on each one.

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Someone clients trust. You keep them informed before they have to ask, and you are calm when a deadline moves.

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Someone who chases the loose ends. Approvals, feedback and content that has gone quiet, without being asked to.

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