Strategic Programme Lead

The Focus Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

The Focus Group is seeking a senior Programme Manager to oversee end-to-end capacity planning and the delivery of large-scale projects across the portfolio. You will align capacity with strategy, manage budgets, and lead a high-performing team to achieve business outcomes in a dynamic environment.

Reporting to a senior leadership team, you will drive governance, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement, ensuring delivery excellence and strategic alignment with company objectives in

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate.
• Honour's degree or professional qualifications.
• PMP or Prince certification; PGMP.

Responsibilities

• Model the capacity requirements across full portfolio of projects per requirements.
• Communicate the impact of capacity requirements and drive capacity planning.
• Ensure structures are in place that drive alignment of capacity requirements with strategic priority.
• Drive practices and business principles that achieve optimised capacity planning and resource allocation onto projects.
• Set up and enable the management of branch budgets against an agreed financial model that considers operations and growth strategies as these align to the company strategy.
• Participate in the strategy planning for the function.
• Ensure optimal team delivery.
• Consider the commercial relevance of the function to ensure a clear competitive capability, leveraging off leading industry benchmarks.

Skills

Budgeting

Capacity planning

Change management

Employee training/development

Financial accounting principles

Organisational behaviour theory

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Business writing skills

Education

Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate

Honour's Degree or professional qualifications

SMP/MBA or equivalent

PMP or Prince certification; PGMP

Job description

The Focus Group is seeking a senior Programme Manager to oversee end-to-end capacity planning and the delivery of large-scale projects across the portfolio. You will align capacity with strategy, manage budgets, and lead a high-performing team to achieve business outcomes in a dynamic environment.

Reporting to a senior leadership team, you will drive governance, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement, ensuring delivery excellence and strategic alignment with company objectives in