Senior Project Manager – Tech Delivery & Client Leadership

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

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.