The Role
Lead enterprise implementation strategy across six work streams, coordinating cross-functional delivery, risks, dependencies, budgets, quality, and deadlines. Manage Agile planning and continuous delivery while supporting stream leads and maintaining accountability. Facilitate executive steering meetings, provide transparent progress reporting, and engage senior stakeholders and client leadership. The role requires overseeing complex multi-stream portfolios and fostering collaborative, results-oriented delivery across technical and business teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Location: Johannesburg | Work Type: Hybrid / Remote | Job ID: J107263
About our client:
Our client offers financial service solutions helping their clients achieve their dreams. With an emphasis on culture fit, they boast a dedicated team of over 600 employees, many with over a decade of tenure. They have built their culture on a feeling of togetherness, trust and respect and are always looking to support employees' continuous learning. Using Agile, they provide diverse services with a focus on research, innovation and improvement.
What you will be doing:
- Lead and scale the overall implementation strategy across six core work streams.
- Provide high-level operational support and direction to ensure cross-functional work streams remain aligned and integrated.
- Identify bottlenecks, risks, and dependencies across delivery tracks, implementing proactive mitigation strategies.
- Maintain momentum across projects, stepping in to guide execution while leveraging support from leadership as required.
- Interface effectively with senior executives, stakeholders, and client leadership.
- Drive senior-level project steering meetings, providing clear, transparent reporting on progress, risks, and key performance milestones.
- Serve as the primary accountability anchor, ensuring all stream leads deliver against established deadlines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Apply deep Agile project management practices to foster continuous delivery and adaptive planning.
- Empower and support team leads while holding them accountable for performance outputs and deliverables.
- Cultivate a results-oriented, highly collaborative environment across technical and business work streams.
What our client is looking for:
- Proven track record as a Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager, or Delivery Manager overseeing multi-stream enterprise implementations.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex portfolios with multiple parallel work streams.
- Deep mastery of Agile methodologies, frameworks, and delivery practices.
- Proven experience engaging, negotiating, and reporting at the executive / C-suite level.
- Highly articulate with outstanding stakeholder engagement and presentation skills.
- Ability to quickly understand complex systems/processes and run with them independently.
- Strong leadership character with the ability to hold teams accountable in a constructive, delivery-focused manner.
- Energetic, resilient, and adaptable leadership style.
For a more comprehensive list of opportunities that we have on offer, do visit our website - https://www.parvana.co.uk/careers
Requirements
Programme Manager, Agile, Multi-stream Implementation, Executive Stakeholder Management, Delivery, Accountability, Strategic Leadership, Financial Services
Skills Required
- Proven experience as a Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager, or Delivery Manager overseeing multi-stream enterprise implementations
- Experience managing complex portfolios with multiple parallel work streams
- Deep mastery of Agile methodologies, frameworks, and delivery practices
- Experience engaging, negotiating, and reporting at executive or C-suite level
- Strong stakeholder engagement and presentation skills
- Ability to understand complex systems and processes and work independently
- Strong leadership skills and ability to hold teams accountable constructively
- Energetic, resilient, and adaptable leadership style
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The Company
What We Do
Parvana is an IT recruitment agency specializing in connecting top tech talent with leading companies in South Africa and the UK, focusing on software development, finance, and telecommunications.
