[Careers]Senior Project / Programme Manager
Role: Project Manager
Type: Permanent
Location: Centurion, Pretoria
We are seeking a Senior Project / Programme Manager who will be responsible for ERP implementation
across companies including managing a large-scale enterprise transformation programme. The ERP
Programme Manager will lead the end-to-end strategy, implementation, and governance of enterprise-wide
software (Dynamics 365) to align with business goals.
The ERP Program will organize, drive, and manage an ERP program focused on implementation of
Dynamics365. The role will perform business transformation consulting, provide project management,
make resource recommendations, and manage communications to all team and management levels. The
ERP Program Manager will follow the Company project and change management methodologies and
ensure that ERP implementations are completed on time and within budget. This role will ensure total
coordination and program governance between business functions, IT teams, System Integrators, business
partners, software vendors and drive delivery of program milestones
#1. Key Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
Programme & Delivery Management
• Develop the ERP roadmap, defining scope, goals, and project timelines.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of the ERP programme and associated workstreams
• Define and manage programme scope, timelines, and deliverables
• Ensure alignment to the approved business case and transformation objectives
• Overseeing the planning, development and integration of ERP systems
• Bridge technical teams and business functional departments.
• Managing the functionality of new ERP systems, as well as upgrades and modifications to current
systems
• Responsible for coordinating and maintaining ERP Program governance model, partnering with the
business to adequately prioritize requirements, set ERP configuration standards, and gain agreement
on applications stand
Financial & Budget Management
• Manage programme budgets, cost forecasts, and financial controls
• Track expenditure against approved funding and ensure cost discipline
• Provide financial reporting to Programme Steering Committee and Exco
• Manage program budget allocation, monitor expenditures, and mitigate project risks.
Vendor & Multi-Party Coordination
• Coordinate multiple vendors, partners, and internal teams
• Communicating with management on schedules, delays and work changes for ERP projects
• Tracking, analyzing and resolving issues with ERP systems
• Drive organizational adoption of new processes and tools and managing change across the
organization to ensure a gradual adoption of the new system
• Guide the system implementation from planning to go-live, including testing (UAT) and data
migration.
• Manage interdependencies across delivery streams and external providers
• Ensure contractual obligations and delivery outputs are met
Stakeholder Management
• Engage and manage stakeholders at executive and enterprise levels
• Facilitate decision-making across business, IT, finance, and governance bodies
• Provide clear, structured reporting to Steering Committee and Exco
• Risk, Governance & Compliance
• Ensure adherence to programme governance frameworks and design authority processes
• Manage programme risks, issues, and dependencies proactively
Drive compliance with decision gates, including:
• Chair governance boards and provide status reporting to the executive steering committee.
• Steering Committee governance
• Design Authority / Design Gates
• Data & Migration governance
• Change and Adoption streams
• Transformation & Change Leadership
• Lead organisational change and adoption across impacted business units
• Ensure alignment between business readiness, data migration, and system deployment
• Drive delivery discipline and programme recovery where required
Implementation, including:
• Responsible for assisting in 3rd party software integration.
• Proactively identify opportunities to automate business and reporting processes
• Verify business readiness before implementation of modules and/or extensions to the product.
Ensure appropriate documentation, testing and signoff is in place.
• Ensure follow up with business users reporting problems with the issue resolution(s) on a timely
basis.
• Follow the prescribed IT Policies and adhere to SOX compliance throughout all project acti
#2. Qualifications & Experience
Extensive experience delivering large-scale enterprise programmes (essential)
• Demonstrated success in ERP implementations and systems integration programmes
• Experience managing multi-vendor and multi-stream delivery environments
• Strong track record in programme recovery and complex transformation delivery
• Experience operating within formal governance structures and executive oversight environments
• Ability to stabilise and deliver within a previously challenged programme environment
• Strong governance discipline and audit readiness
• Effective coordination across complex, multi-party ecosystems
• Executive-level communication and decision facilitation
• Must be resilient and comfortable with expedition of resources in a complex matrixed organization
• PMP / PRINCE2 Practitioner
• MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)
• Agile / SAFe (advantageous)
• 5-10+ years’ Experience managing complex ERP implementations
• Strong understanding of ERP platforms (Microsoft Dynamics 365)
• Excellent proficiency in Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid methodologies.
• Strong communication skills for managing consultants, developers, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong proficiency in identifying and evaluating complex business processes and providing system
solutions.
Required Values and Attitudes:
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Compliance with processes and procedures
• Quality-driven (attention to detail)
• Integrity
• Self-driven
• Analytical
• Trustworthy
• Can work under pressure
• Pleasant manner (even under pressure)
• Excellent problem-solving and stakeholder management skills
#2. How to apply
To apply, please send your CV to lizane.ras@typedev.co.za.
Make sure to use the job title/description as the subject line of your email.