About the position
Role Purpose
Own end-to-end delivery and program management outcomes across assigned tribes and build scalable, South Africa–anchored teams that support execution excellence and expansion aligned
- Delivery Ownership Program Management Excellence
- Own delivery quality, timelines, scope alignment, and outcomes across assigned tribes and workstreams within the program.
- Lead end-to-end program management governance, including integrated planning, dependency management, RAID tracking, milestone alignment, and execution oversight.
- Maintain strong alignment with internal delivery teams and Client stakeholders to ensure execution clarity across multiple initiatives.
- Sustain a continuous execution pulse within the Unit of Work (UoW).
- Proactively surface cross-team delivery risks, dependencies, capacity gaps, and mitigation plans.
- Expansion Execution-Led Growth Within Tribes
- Support expansion within existing tribes and across priority technology areas aligned to the Client’s Book of Work themes.
- Identify upstream (discovery/design) and downstream (testing/stabilisation/support) white spaces.
- Convert delivery credibility into adjacent lifecycle expansion opportunities.
- Capability Talent Strategy
- Support capability planning across teams (seniority mix, technical depth, cross-skilling) aligned to program needs.
- Ensure optimal resource utilisation across workstreams.
- Flag skill gaps, over-engineering risks, or delivery misalignment early.
- South Africa Team Build Localisation
- Support hiring and scaling of South Africa–based delivery teams (PCEOs, BAs, QA Leads, Design, Engineering Leads, etc.).
- Travel to South Africa to onboard teams, establish delivery execution norms, and strengthen stakeholder engagement.
- Build a strong local leadership bench aligned to the Client’s localisation strategy.
- Stakeholder Execution Interface
- Act as the primary execution interface between internal delivery teams and Client program stakeholders.
- Drive structured governance cadence, escalation management, and delivery transparency across tribes.
- Ensure delivery discussions remain proactive, solution-oriented, and outcome-focused.
- RFP Support Solutioning Collaboration
- Work with support and engineering teams in leading and contributing to RFP responses from a program delivery perspective.
- Provide inputs on delivery construct, staffing models, timelines, risks, and localisation strategy.
- Ensure proposed solutions are execution-ready and aligned with ongoing delivery realities.
Desired Skills:
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Spreadsheet software
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Active Listening
- Tax preparation software
- Accounting Software