About the position
Our client is looking for a Project Manager to join their Technology and Digital Transformation team on a contract basis. This role is suited to a highly organised, delivery-focused, and technically astute project management professional with strong Agile/Scrum expertise and proven experience leading Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), OCR, and document automation programmes. The successful candidate will take full ownership of enterprise-scale IDP initiatives, ensuring successful delivery across scope, schedule, budget, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and document automation projects from initiation through to production.
- Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
- Develop and maintain project plans, programme roadmaps, burn-down charts, risk registers, and executive dashboards.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including developers, architects, business analysts, QA engineers, and external vendors.
- Manage dependencies across multiple workstreams and ensure effective scope, change, and risk management.
- Oversee the full IDP lifecycle including document capture, classification, extraction, validation, and downstream integration.
- Coordinate implementation across leading IDP platforms and cloud-based Document AI services.
- Manage model training cycles, accuracy benchmarking, and production-readiness gates.
- Ensure extraction-accuracy SLAs are achieved prior to project sign-off.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with executive sponsors, business stakeholders, and vendor partners.
- Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, solution demonstrations, and user acceptance testing.
- Manage budgets, cloud consumption, platform licensing, and resource allocation across project teams.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations including POPIA, GDPR, and HIPAA.
- Drive continuous improvement, Agile best practices, and lessons learned across the PMO and delivery teams.
- Mentor junior project coordinators and contribute to organisational project management standards.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum 4 years’ project management experience in IT or technology delivery environments.
- Minimum 3 years’ hands-on experience managing IDP, OCR, or document automation projects.
- Proven experience delivering multiple Agile/Scrum projects concurrently.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams of 4–15+ members.
- Demonstrated success managing enterprise-scale projects with budgets exceeding R2 million.
- Strong experience engaging and reporting to C-suite and senior executive stakeholders.
Certifications (Required):
- PMP (PMI) or PRINCE2 Foundation/Practitioner
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM/PSM) or SAFe Scrum Master
Preferred Certifications:
- Cloud architecture certifications (e.g., Azure or AWS)
- Platform certifications in Intelligent Document Processing solutions
- Agile project management certifications
Technical & Professional Skills:
- Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and hybrid delivery methodologies
- Project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, and [URL Removed] budget, change, and risk management
- Executive reporting and dashboard preparation
- Earned value management and programme governance
- Understanding of OCR, document capture, and extraction technologies
- Experience with cloud-based Document AI services
- Knowledge of API integrations, RPA workflows, ERP, ECM, and CRM systems
- Understanding of cloud architecture and enterprise system integrations
Key Competencies:
- Strong leadership and ownership mindset
- Excellent stakeholder and vendor management skills
- Outstanding communication and presentation abilities
- High attention to detail and governance discipline
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Resilient and adaptable in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
- Continuous improvement and process optimisation focus
Additional Requirements:
- Hybrid working model with on-site attendance as required
- Willingness to travel up to 20–30% for client and stakeholder engagements
- Flexibility to work occasional evenings or weekends during critical delivery phases
- Experience within regulated industries such as Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Legal, or Government will be advantageous
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Reinie Du Preez
Senior Specialist Recruitment Consultant
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