Technical Project Manager - Sandton

Catch; Gauteng; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Catch is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead technology delivery from our Sandton office. You will define delivery approaches, governance, phase gates and project documentation scaled to size and risk.

You will run the full project lifecycle, chair kickoffs and status meetings, manage timelines, dependencies and RAID logs, and coordinate across engineering, product, operations and finance to ensure on‑time, quality delivery with formal sign‑offs.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years' project management experience, with a proven track record of delivering technology projects.
• Experience running multiple concurrent projects across several teams and stakeholder groups.
• Strong command of agile delivery alongside traditional project controls: planning, dependency management, RAID and change control.
• Hands‑on experience with delivery tools such as Jira, including building status reporting.
• Enough technical understanding to engage credibly with engineering teams and challenge estimates.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to chair meetings and hold senior stakeholders to commitments.
• Able to work from our Sandton office during business hours, with one remote day per week.

Responsibilities

• Define the delivery approach: Set the delivery model, governance, phase gates and documentation for each project, scaled to its size and risk.
• Run the full project lifecycle: Set up, chair and drive kickoffs, status meetings, steering forums, phase-gate reviews, retrospectives and close-out, ensuring every action is followed through.
• Own the delivery artefacts: Project timelines, delivery checklists, task allocation, dependency maps, RAID logs, and stakeholder and communication plans.
• Hold the line on timelines: Track progress against plan, identify slippage early and drive recovery. Where a date must move, manage it through a controlled change process rather than allowing drift.
• Sit inside the delivery rhythm: Attend sprint planning and daily stand-ups to ensure sprint commitments roll up to the project plan and risks surface early.
• Orchestrate effort across the business: Coordinate every team a project depends on, across engineering, product, operations, finance and client-facing teams, so that nothing stalls on an unowned dependency.
• Own metrics and sign-off: Ensure success metrics are agreed and signed off before build begins, then validated at project close with formal stakeholder sign-off.

Skills

Project management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Jira

Job description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define the delivery approach: Set the delivery model, governance, phase gates and documentation for each project, scaled to its size and risk.
• Run the full project lifecycle: Set up, chair and drive kickoffs, status meetings, steering forums, phase-gate reviews, retrospectives and close-out, ensuring every action is followed through.
• Own the delivery artefacts: Project timelines, delivery checklists, task allocation, dependency maps, RAID logs, and stakeholder and communication plans.
• Hold the line on timelines: Track progress against plan, identify slippage early and drive recovery. Where a date must move, manage it through a controlled change process rather than allowing drift.
• Sit inside the delivery rhythm: Attend sprint planning and daily stand-ups to ensure sprint commitments roll up to the project plan and risks surface early.
• Orchestrate effort across the business: Coordinate every team a project depends on, across engineering, product, operations, finance and client-facing teams, so that nothing stalls on an unowned dependency.
• Own metrics and sign-off: Ensure success metrics are agreed and signed off before build begins, then validated at project close with formal stakeholder sign-off.

REQUIREMENTS:

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

Essential

• 3–5 years' project management experience, with a proven track record of delivering technology projects.
• Experience running multiple concurrent projects across several teams and stakeholder groups.
• Strong command of agile delivery alongside traditional project controls: planning, dependency management, RAID and change control.
• Hands‑on experience with delivery tools such as Jira, including building status reporting.
• Enough technical understanding to engage credibly with engineering teams and challenge estimates.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to chair meetings and hold senior stakeholders to commitments.
• Able to work from our Sandton office during business hours, with one remote day per week.

Advantageous

• Formal project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, PSM or similar).
• Consultancy or engagement management background.
• Experience in financial services, tax or fintech.

Behavioural Profile

• Ownership: Treats every project outcome as their own.
• Drive: Pushes delivery forward rather than waiting for others to act.
• Assertive: Comfortable challenging timelines and holding people to account, constructively.
• Structured: Highly organised and detail-driven; nothing falls through the gaps.
• Curious: Gets into the detail enough to understand the work, not just schedule it.