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Role Title: Agile Project Lead/ Scrum Master

Location: Midrand

Duration: 12 month contract

Responsibilities:

Practices and Values

• Facilitating Scrum Events: Effectively plan and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Agile principles and Scrum practices: Guide the team on Agile principles and Scrum practices, fostering self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Promoting Agile Values: Champion and embed Agile values and principles within the team and the wider organization

Agile Technical Focus

• PI Planning Participation & Contribution: Actively participate in PI Planning, contributing to the definition of PI Objectives and the Program Increment plan from a technical perspective.
• Understanding the Product Vision: Align project activities with the overall product vision and roadmap.
• Contributing to Product Strategy: Provide technical insights and customer feedback to inform product strategy and prioritization.
• Iteration Planning & Execution: Develop and manage detailed iteration plans and execution within the Sprint, aligning with the overall PI plan.
• Initiative Planning and Definition: Define the scope, objectives, and deliverables in alignment with business goals and product strategy.
• Integration of Methodologies: Apply a hybrid approach, blending Agile and traditional project management methodologies as appropriate for the project and organizational context.
• Initiation: Participate in project initiation activities, including defining the business case and project charter.
• Execution: Oversee the execution of project tasks, ensuring adherence to the plan and managing any deviations. Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, track progress against milestones, and manage dependencies
• Release Management (Technical Aspects): Collaborate with product owners and development teams on release planning and execution.
• Post-Release Support (Technical Aspects): May be involved in providing technical support and addressing issues in post-release phases. Ensure proper project closure, including final deliverables, documentation, and necessary ceremonies like Inspect an adapt, sprint review and sprint retrospective
• Gathering Feedback for Product Improvement: Channel customer feedback and technical insights to inform future product development and improvements.
• Resource Coordination : Coordinate and manage technical resources within the team(s) to achieve iteration and PI objectives.
• Technical Dependencies Management : Identify and manage technical dependencies within the team and with other teams within the ART and other external stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate potential project risks and issues Monitor risks and issues, and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Removing Impediments: Identify and remove obstacles and roadblocks that hinder the team's progress.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and requirements.
• Budget Management: Monitor and control project budgets, ensuring adherence to financial constraints
• Budget Awareness (Technical Aspects within SAFe): Be aware of the budgetary constraints related to technical implementation within the PI.
• Documentation : Ensure the creation and maintenance of relevant team-level and technical documentation aligned with SAFe practices. Create and maintain comprehensive workstream documentation, including workstream plans, status reports, and lessons learned.
• Tracking and Reporting: Monitor and report on team progress, sprint burndown, and other relevant Agile metrics.
• Stakeholder Communication & Management: Maintain clear and consistent communication with stakeholders within the ART, providing regular updates on team progress and technical considerations. Facilitating Communication to Ensure clear and transparent communication within the team and with all other stakeholders.
• Protecting the Team: Shield the team from external distractions and ensure a focused and productive environment.

Technical Team Lead Responsibilities:

• Technical Guidance and Mentorship: Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to the development team.
• Technical Decision-Making: Participate in and contribute to key technical decisions and architectural design.
• Code Quality and Standards: Promote and enforce coding standards, best practices, and code quality.
• Performance Management (Technical Aspects): Provide input on the technical performance and development of team members.
• Knowledge Sharing: Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration within the technical team.
• Staying Current: Keep abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends relevant to the project and product.

4End-to-End (ETE) Customer Relationship Management:

• Understanding Customer Needs: Act as a key point of contact for the customer throughout the project and product lifecycle, actively listening to and understanding their needs and expectations.
• Managing Customer Expectations: Clearly communicate workstream progress, potential challenges, and scope changes to the customer.
• Gathering Feedback: Proactively solicit and gather customer feedback on the project and the evolving product.
• Ensuring Customer Satisfaction: Drive initiatives and actions to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Building Strong Relationships: Cultivate and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with key customer stakeholders.

Stakeholder Management:

• Identifying Stakeholders: Identify all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Communication Planning: Develop and execute a communication plan to keep stakeholders informed about workstream progress, risks, and decisions.
• Managing Expectations: Proactively manage stakeholder expectations and address any concerns or issues.
• Building Consensus: Facilitate discussions and build consensus among stakeholders with diverse interests.
• Reporting and Transparency: Provide regular and transparent reports on workstream status to stakeholders.

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Solid foundation in traditional project management principles and practices.
• Excellent technical acumen and understanding of software development processes.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate technical teams.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution abilities.
• Customer-centric mindset and a passion for understanding customer needs.
• Ability to navigate complex organizational structures.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Extensive experience (typically 7+ years) in software development or a related technical role with increasing responsibility.
• Proven experience (typically 5+ years) leading technical projects and teams, preferably within a scaled Agile environment.
• Strong experience (typically 3+ years) facilitating Agile teams using Scrum, ideally within SAFe.
• Deep understanding of Agile principles, Scrum framework, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Solid technical background with expertise in software development, system architecture, and relevant technologies.
• Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making abilities.
• Proven ability to manage complex technical projects and navigate challenging situations within a scaled Agile context.
• Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) and tools specific to SAFe (e.g., alignment dashboards).
• SAFe certification (e.g., SAFe Agilist, SASM, SSM) is highly preferred.
• Scrum Master certification (e.g., CSM, PSM) is a plus.
• Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching technical team members within a SAFe environment.
• Experience managing projects across multiple teams within an ART.
• Familiarity with various software development methodologies and their integration within SAFe.

Job Classification

Job Req

Closing date - 13 October 2025

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Career Stream

Projects

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To manage and deliver medium projects from commencement to completion within the scope, budget and time agreed. Projects could be associated with any discipline e.g. property, engineering, information technology, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will play an active role in providing mentorship and coaching on agile best practices to junior staff. The Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals
• To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy
• To manage the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing; directing and controlling of all aspects of projects/solutions or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation to realize the business strategy.
• Escalates impediments, manages risk, helps assure value delivery and helps drive continuous improvement
• Hybrid role that balances Agile leadership and project/program management to help software development teams build and deliver solutions more efficiently
• Leveraging the solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges associated with facilitating and continuously aligning large development programs
• Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
• Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
• Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
• Manage project budget within project scope.
• Deliver projects on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
• Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
• Ensure management of scope including coverage of client requirements and based on estimations.
• Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule.
• Meet requirements by providing advice to clients on the most appropriate Project management approach, identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, and define the level of participation in project, map their communication needs and manage stakeholder engagement strategies through the project plan.
• Manage each stakeholder group actively through the change cycle.
• Conduct business change impact across process, systems, and roles according to the change management plan.
• Manage the stakeholders by ensuring an understanding of the behaviours and operations and by defining strategies in project schedule.
• Keep clients and management informed.
• Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client.
• Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope and signed off by stakeholders.
• Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
• Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope and signed off by stakeholders.
• Ensure sufficient resource allocation.
• Manage delivery of medium projects according to prevailing Project Management methodology.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification

NQF level 7 qualification or Honours degree in Project Management or Business management

Essential Certifications

• Relevant certification in PM practises or methodology (PRINCE/ PMBOK ETC)

Preferred Certifications

Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification

Minimum Experience Level

5-8 years working experience in project environment of which 5 years in a PM role

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Industry trends
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Principles of financial management
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Principles of project management
• Communication Strategies
• Decision-making process
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Financial management
• Information Technology concepts

Behavioural Competencies

• Influencing
• Customer Orientation
• Earning Trust
• Continuous Learning
• Monitoring Information
• Leveraging Feedback
• Planning and Organizing

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team

Who are we?
Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.

What will you do?
Agile Delivery Leads are an essential feature of high performing squads. By creating and continuously evolving the rhythms and rituals of the team, they maximize the time and cognitive load in the team invested towards team objectives and delivery. They work within their squad and across the organization to establish optimize the squads' meetings, communication channels, ceremonies and even norms for agility and achieving their outcomes. Optimal team behaviors and inner workings are what make agility and high performance possible.

This is a role where mastery in group facilitation, team reflection and a variety of agile approaches comes together to give the squad the best environment possible to support their evolution to high performance.  They work to ensure the squad works smarter, not harder, ensuring alignment, flow, and continuous improvement across every sprint and initiative.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Maximized 'flow' time for engineer execution: Team has most time possible to focus on delivering impactfuloutputs and achieving their objectives.
• Meetings and ceremonies aligned to performance: All regular interactions, from sprint planning toretrospectives, are optimized to directly enhance team performance and drive outcomes. Zero wasted hours inteam meetings.
• Clear alignment from missions to sprint tasks: Supporting Product Manager to in achieving seamlesscascading from missions to OKRs, EPICS, initiatives down to daily work, eliminating duplication of discussionsand delays.
• Elimination of persistent blockers: Proactively addresses and removes obstacles, ensuring that no blockerspersist across sprints and the team can maintain momentum.

Qualification

• Matric
• Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous
• Scrum Master certification will be advantageous

Experience

• 3+ years in a similar role with at least 1 year in team and/or company that builds technology
• Track record of high impact and investing in your own development

Knowledge & Skills
These are different capabilities that Agile Delivery Leads pursue mastery in that help them to produce high qualityoutputs and increase their impact.

• Deep expertise in Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and hybrid approaches.
• Mastery in creating and maintaining high-performing team rhythms, ensuring a healthy balance ofplanning, execution, and reflection.
• Strong group facilitation skills to navigate discussions, promote collaboration, and ensure all voices areheard.
• A focus on building a culture of belonging and collaboration within teams.
• Incredibly high agency

Thinking Preference

• You look for ways to do, instead of reasons not to. You are high agency, high ownership in everything youdo. You know we own our future, only we can make it happen. If you find something that keeps us from ourmission, you own it or work collaboratively with others until you find the right owner of it.
• Where some see impossible, you see a way.You have the strong conviction in our ability to innovate andbring financial services, and financial confidence to everyone across the continent. You turn obstacles intoopportunity, chance into change.
• You move fast and fix things. You publish early and often, when you fail you learn and go again. You knowthat speed gives you the licence to fail, because you're moving fast enough to correct course.
• You love creating more with less. Knowing that the biggest impact is born of the smallest acts, scale is builtinto your thinking from day 1. This is not about meeting the needs of thousands; it's about exceeding the needsof millions. And working through small and mighty teams is way we'll do it.
• You seek out and value different perspectives. Believing that when we change how we look at things, howthings look for us also changes. Making tomorrow not just different, but better.

Personal Attributes
Action orientated - Contributing through others

Plans and aligns - Contributing through others

Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

Builds effective teams - Contributing independently

Collaborates - Contributing independently

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us
We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies
Being resilient - Contributing through others

Collaborates - Contributing through others

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Customer focus - Contributing through others

Drives results - Contributing through others

Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

Maximizethe'flow' time for data engineers to execute work timeously

Align meetings,ceremonies, sprints retrospectives to enhanceteam performance:

Ensure clear alignment from missions to sprint tasks by supporting Product Manager in achieving seamless cascading from missions to OKRs, EPICS, initiatives down to daily work, eliminating duplication of discussions and delays.

Elimination of persistent impediments across sprints to maintain team focus and delivery

Matric

Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) is preferable

Scrum Master Certification required. AdditionalSAfe Agilistwould be highly advantageous

1 years experience in a Data Platform or Data Engineering Team building either Technology/Platform/s*

3+ years total experience as a Agile Lead or Senior Scum Master, leading a team of SCM's

Track record of high impact and investing in your own development

Between 3 - 5 Years

Job Classification

Senior Agile Project Manager

Closing date: 10 October 2025

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Career Stream

Projects

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will also monitor and report on project and deliverable progress, run agile ceremonies, and provide mentorship and coaching on agile best practices. The Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team

Job Responsibilities

• Relationships building with key stakeholders with primary accountability to the GT Exco Asset or Journey owners.
• Dependency management and contracting across initiatives impacting the portfolio
• Manage demand, plans and delivery from various journeys/assets, through Programme Increments and ensure strong tracking and progress visibility, financial management
• Participates in PI Planning to agree and track the commitments made
• Sprint / Squad Capacity planning (e.g., x % of existing squad) who will be doing the work
• Funding requirements (e.g., x % of squad run rate costs)
• Build, Run and Own the asset or journey end-to-end throughout its life across the POCLAC: Innovation, Small Medium Enhancements and Support & Maintenance (BAU)
• Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals
• Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
• Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
• Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope
• Ensure project budget are managed within project scope
• Ensure projects are delivered on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance
• Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations
• Ensure management of scope, including coverage of client requirements, are created based on estimations
• Manage project priorities effectively and ensured dependencies are catered for according to the project scope
• Ensure professional advice accepted and implemented
• Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in project, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan. Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a non-technical language
• Ensure each stakeholder group is actively managed through the change cycle
• Ensure business change impact is conducted across process, systems, and technology in accordance with change management plan
• Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood
• Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client
• Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required
• Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope
• Ensure sufficient resource allocations
• Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology
• Conduct effective resource negotiation and allocation

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification

Project Management

Essential Certifications

• PMP or Prince certification. Programme Management certification (PGMP)

Preferred Certifications

Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification

Minimum Experience Level

8-10 years experience working in a project environment of which 2-3 years working with medium to high complexity projects

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Industry trends
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Principles of financial management
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Principles of project management
• Communication Strategies
• Decision-making process
• Governance, Risk and Controls

Behavioural Competencies

• Decision Making
• Influencing
• Planning and Organizing
• Work Standards
• Applied Learning
• Customer Orientation
• Earning Trust

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team

Involve all stakeholders (Business/Developers/QA) in solution design.

lead explorations if needed to deliver Epics and User Stories from a Saga (story mapping).

Ensuring the sustainability of the project by taking appropriate actions where necessary.

Provides key insights into the evolution of Agile KPIs in complex Agile Teams to improve efficiencies.

Guides the team and organisation on the use and application of Agile methodologies and practices.

Aligns within bigger teams to ensure good collaboration and value adding outcomes.

Collaborates with Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites/locations.

Gives structure to workshops and meetings to lead and facilitate the team's Agile way of working. This includes facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Assesses the agile maturity of the team and organisation and coaches the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team/projects.

Assists with internal and external communication and improving transparency. Demonstrates the status / performance of the team as key element.

Supports the Product Owner with grooming processes and product backlog management.

Assists with project- and team coordination tasks when required.

Preparation and communication of Test reports during test execution (SIT and UAT) and distribute the results.

Ensure that all processes are investigated / considered in obtaining the specifications of the user requirements (e.g. DoR).

Qualifications/Experience:

Relevant IT Degree / Diploma / Certification.

At least 5 years' experience in the IT / Software DevOps industry is essential.

Essential Skills Requirements:

Ability to manage a technical team using agile methodologies.

Problem Solving.

Time Management & organised.

Identify, Assess and Mitigate risks.

JIRA and Confluence.

Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter.

Advantageous Skills Requirements:

Excellent usage of MS Office tools (Excel, Word & PowerPoint).

Ability to understand and interpret business needs and requirements with an aptitude to move concepts through to proposal and successful implementation.

Incident-Problem management: ITSM Suite / BMC Remedy.

Database's skills (Oracle, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, PLSQL etc).

Software development (Java Frameworks, or any other frameworks and languages).

Knowledge of CICD, Tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins etc) and SDLC.

Agile testing experience.

Previous exposure to a finance function (either being in a finance function or Agile Master for a team that services a Finance Function).

Communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users.

Leadership skills.

Conflict Resolution.

Experience in communication with Product Owners & Stakeholders.

Agile software development experience (from requirement to deployment/operations).

Understanding of product and application development concepts and DevOps topics.

Knowledge or experience in a JAVA and/or cloud Development environment.

IT operations Know How.

Excellent proficiency in the Agile Tools (JIRA, Confluence, X-Ray etc).

Knowledge of patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach.

Between 5 - 7 Years

Job Title: Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master (Contract)

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master to join our team on a contract basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving Agile delivery, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, and ensuring that IT projects are delivered on time and within scope. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to guide teams in adopting Agile best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage IT projects end-to-end, ensuring delivery within scope, time, and budget.
• Act as Scrum Master for Agile teams, facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, and Business Stakeholders to align priorities and deliverables.
• Track and report project progress, risks, and dependencies to management.
• Drive Agile adoption and coach team members on best practices.
• Ensure transparent communication and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience as an Agile Project Manager and/or Scrum Master.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar).
• Excellent leadership, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Agile/project management tools (Jira, Confluence, Trello, or similar).

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM, PSM) or Agile Project Management certification.
• Experience managing software development or IT transformation projects.
• Contracting experience in a fast-paced environment.

Job Type: Temporary

Contract length: 12 months

Pay: R700,00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Work Location: Remote

Project Manager – Conferences

26,000–34,000 ZAR per month basic + bonus schemes

Global Insight Conferences (GIC) — a market-leading conference and exhibition company — is looking for an ambitious, hardworking and talented individual to join our growing team as a Project Manager / Conference Producer.

Who We Are

We don't just run business conferences; we set the standard. We produce high-quality, bespoke business conferences — live and virtual — in the UK and abroad. You'll join a passionate, friendly, driven team that invests in its people and rapidly develops them into market-leading professionals.

Who We're Looking For

You're already a strong, proactive conference producer with proven experience of researching, planning and delivering profitable events. We're committed to developing those who want to grow and become industry experts, so you'll have ample opportunity for career progression and management if you can bring:

• 2+ years' experience producing B2B events (conference experience is a big plus)
• Minimum grade B/6 in Maths & English Language at GCSE (or IB equivalent) plus a strong set of A Levels
• A pro-active, positive attitude with a passion for results and making things happen
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (email campaigns and phone work are essential)
• Ambition, drive and passion, plus a calm but urgent approach to deadlines
• Commercial curiosity and a self-directing, tenacious work ethic

What You'll Be Doing

As a Conference Producer you'll be responsible for creating high-quality, profitable conferences from scratch — researching, planning, writing and briefing other departments to deliver an outstanding experience for delegates, speakers and sponsors. You'll handle:

• In-depth sales & telephone research
• Programme and commercial copywriting
• Speaker acquisition from top brands
• Project lifecycle and task prioritisation
• Quality and commercial success indicators for each event
• Excel and data planning/management
• LinkedIn strategy and ROI
• External stakeholder management (speakers/sponsors)
• Internal collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Topic generation and innovation

This role suits highly organised, commercially minded, high-energy self-starters with exceptional organisational, research, grammar and creative writing skills.

What's In It For You

We don't just hire you — we invest in you. Benefits include:

• Competitive salaries & bonus schemes regularly reviewed
• Remote work flexibility
• Referral scheme: know someone great? We'll pay you £500 for your recommendation
• Charity & environmental initiatives: nominate causes close to your heart for our quarterly donations
• Equal, inclusive & diverse culture: over 80% of our leadership team is female, and we employ above the national average rates of people from ethnically diverse backgrounds

Ready to Apply?

Re-read the job specification. Do you have the credentials, passion and drive?

You do? THEN APPLY NOW

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: R26 000,00 - R34 000,00 per month

Experience:

• events production: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person