Project Manager

Centrax Digital UK; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrax Digital is a hybrid‑work SA-based AI‑first consulting firm; we seek a Delivery Lead to plan and lead the delivery of engagements from start to finish, owning the plan, budget, risks, and the client relationship.

You will steer day‑to‑day governance, manage resources and billing, and ensure successful close with lessons learned, while collaborating with stakeholders across multi‑stream engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification required; PMP, Agile PM, or SAFe certification is an advantage.
• Minimum 5 years' experience delivering technology projects to external clients.
• Experience leading projects of at least R5 million in value.
• Experience in a consulting environment with multiple concurrent engagements.

Responsibilities

• Initiate engagements through the PMO entry workflow, confirming scope, deliverables, governance, and commercial terms with the client.
• Produce and maintain the engagement plan, work breakdown structure, and resource plan in Zoho Projects.
• Run the engagement governance cadence: weekly status, monthly steering committee, quarterly review.
• Maintain the risk and issue register and elevate to the Delivery Director or steering committee where required.
• Manage change control through the PMO change workflow and confirm commercial impact with the Engagement Lead.
• Coordinate the delivery team day to day and resolve resourcing conflicts with the practice leads.
• Track time and cost against budget, and produce monthly billing input for Finance.
• Run engagement close: handover to Customer Success, lessons learned, archive, and PMO close-out report.
• Maintain a defensible audit trail of decisions, changes, approvals, and escalations.

Skills

Engagement leadership

Stakeholder management

Project governance

Risk management

Budget tracking

Resource planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

PRINCE2 Practitioner certification

PMP certification

Agile PM certification

SAFe certification

Job description

You lead engagements from contract signature to close, and own the plan, the budget, the risks, and the client relationship.

ABOUT CENTRAX DIGITAL

Centrax Digital is an AI-first consulting and digital engineering firm operating from Bryanston, Sandton and Grand Prairie, Texas. We are a Level 1 B-BBEE, black woman-owned Advanced Zoho Partner. Our work spans AI and advisory, platforms, cloud and security, and digital engineering, delivered on our own published methodology. Because Innovation Matters.

THE ROLE

To plan and lead the delivery of Centrax Digital engagements to time, scope, and value. You are accountable for the day-to-day running of the engagement, the health of the plan, the management of risk and change, and the client relationship across the engagement lifecycle.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Initiate engagements through the PMO entry workflow, confirming scope, deliverables, governance, and commercial terms with the client.
• Produce and maintain the engagement plan, work breakdown structure, and resource plan in Zoho Projects.
• Run the engagement governance cadence: weekly status, monthly steering committee, quarterly review.
• Maintain the risk and issue register and elevate to the Delivery Director or steering committee where required.
• Manage change control through the PMO change workflow and confirm commercial impact with the Engagement Lead.
• Coordinate the delivery team day to day and resolve resourcing conflicts with the practice leads.
• Track time and cost against budget, and produce monthly billing input for Finance.
• Run engagement close: handover to Customer Success, lessons learned, archive, and PMO close-out report.
• Maintain a defensible audit trail of decisions, changes, approvals, and escalations.

WHAT YOU NEED

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification required. PMP, Agile PM, or SAFe certification is an advantage.
• Minimum 5 years' experience delivering technology projects to external clients.
• Experience leading projects of at least R5 million in value, or equivalent multi-stream complexity.
• Experience in a consulting environment with multiple concurrent engagements.
• Comfortable reading and interpreting MSA, SOW, and Change Request documents, and with time and materials, fixed price, and milestone billing models.
• Experience across both platform and bespoke development engagements is an advantage. Financial services, public sector, or large enterprise experience is an advantage.

WHERE THE BOUNDARIES SIT

Architecture decisions sit with the Solution Architect. Client commercial ownership sits with the Engagement Lead or account roles where assigned.

HOW THIS ROLE EVOLVES

Centrax is concurrently advertising a Delivery Lead (JH02), a composite role that holds project management, workstream leadership, and quality gate ownership in one seat until dedicated appointments are made. Candidates for this position may also be considered for that one. Progression from this role runs through Senior Project Manager to Programme Manager.

WORKING ARRANGEMENTS

Standard working hours of 08:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday, with flexibility expected around critical milestones, client steering committees, and incident response. Hybrid working in line with company policy, with the expectation of being on site for client steering committees and at Bryanston Gate for the PMO cadence. Travel to client sites is part of the role. Standard 21 days annual leave and BCEA leave entitlements apply.

REMUNERATION

Market related, commensurate with experience.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY AND POPIA

Centrax Digital is an equal opportunity employer. Appointments are made in line with the Employment Equity Act and the company's employment equity plan, and preference may be given to suitably qualified candidates from designated groups. By applying, you consent to the processing of your personal information for recruitment purposes in accordance with POPIA.