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• Boldr is the first global B-Corp dedicated to delivering world-class Client experiences while creating access to dignified, meaningful work in communities around the world.
• We are a global team, united by our desire to connect diverse people with common values for boldr impact.
• We employ just over a thousand team members across five countries and we want to employ over 5,000 people by 2027, if not sooner.

• Meaningful connections start with AUTHENTICITY
• We do our best work by being CURIOUS
• We grow by remaining DYNAMIC
• Our success combines AMBITIOUS VISION with OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
• At the heart of great partnerships we'll always find EMPATHY

We are seeking a motivated and organized Senior Project Lead to join our dynamic project management team. The Junior Project Manager will play a pivotal role in assisting with the planning, execution, monitoring, and closing of projects. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who is eager to learn and develop their project management skills while contributing to the successful delivery of projects.

We are currently looking for impact-driven individuals who are passionate in helping Boldr grow and achieve our Purpose. We expect our Team to become our ultimate partners to success by always giving their 110% in everything, sharing their talents and quirks, and championing our core values: Curious, Dynamic and Authentic.

Project Planning:

• Assist in creating project plans, including defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and resources required.
• Collaborate with senior project managers to develop detailed work breakdown structures and project schedules.

Coordination and Communication:

• Facilitate communication between project team members, stakeholders, and clients to ensure a clear understanding of project goals and expectations.
• Coordinate meetings, workshops, and progress updates to keep all stakeholders informed about project status.

Task Assignment and Tracking:

• Assist in assigning tasks to team members and monitoring their progress to ensure timely completion.
• Maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, action items, and project artifacts.

Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks and issues that could impact project delivery, and work with the project team to develop mitigation strategies.
• Escalate critical issues to senior project managers and assist in resolving them.

Quality Assurance:

• Assist in ensuring project deliverables meet quality standards and adhere to established processes.
• Collaborate with team members to perform quality checks on project outputs.

Reporting and Documentation:

• Generate regular project status reports, highlighting progress, milestones, issues, and risks.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation in a centralized repository.

Learning and Development:

• Participate in training and development opportunities to enhance project management skills.
• Seek guidance from senior project managers and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

YOU ARE…

• Curious and authentic, just like us #beboldr

• An analytical and critical thinker, with an eye for even the most minute of details

• Passionate about client satisfaction

YOU HAVE…

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated interest in project management through coursework, internships, or relevant projects.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficiency in project management software tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Asana, Trello).
• Basic understanding of project management methodologies and principles.
• Detail-oriented and proactive problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team and adapt to changing project requirements.

• Boldr is the first global B-Corp dedicated to delivering world-class Client experiences while creating access to dignified, meaningful work in communities around the world.
• We are a global team, united by our desire to connect diverse people with common values for boldr impact.
• We employ just over a thousand team members across five countries and we want to employ over 5,000 people by 2027, if not sooner.

• Meaningful connections start with AUTHENTICITY
• We do our best work by being CURIOUS
• We grow by remaining DYNAMIC
• Our success combines AMBITIOUS VISION with OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
• At the heart of great partnerships we'll always find EMPATHY

We are seeking a motivated and organized Senior Project Lead to join our dynamic project management team. The Junior Project Manager will play a pivotal role in assisting with the planning, execution, monitoring, and closing of projects. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who is eager to learn and develop their project management skills while contributing to the successful delivery of projects.

We are currently looking for impact-driven individuals who are passionate in helping Boldr grow and achieve our Purpose. We expect our Team to become our ultimate partners to success by always giving their 110% in everything, sharing their talents and quirks, and championing our core values: Curious, Dynamic and Authentic.

Project Planning:

• Assist in creating project plans, including defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and resources required.
• Collaborate with senior project managers to develop detailed work breakdown structures and project schedules.

Coordination and Communication:

• Facilitate communication between project team members, stakeholders, and clients to ensure a clear understanding of project goals and expectations.
• Coordinate meetings, workshops, and progress updates to keep all stakeholders informed about project status.

Task Assignment and Tracking:

• Assist in assigning tasks to team members and monitoring their progress to ensure timely completion.
• Maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, action items, and project artifacts.

Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks and issues that could impact project delivery, and work with the project team to develop mitigation strategies.
• Escalate critical issues to senior project managers and assist in resolving them.

Quality Assurance:

• Assist in ensuring project deliverables meet quality standards and adhere to established processes.
• Collaborate with team members to perform quality checks on project outputs.

Reporting and Documentation:

• Generate regular project status reports, highlighting progress, milestones, issues, and risks.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation in a centralized repository.

Learning and Development:

• Participate in training and development opportunities to enhance project management skills.
• Seek guidance from senior project managers and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

YOU ARE…

• Curious and authentic, just like us #beboldr

• An analytical and critical thinker, with an eye for even the most minute of details

• Passionate about client satisfaction

YOU HAVE…

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated interest in project management through coursework, internships, or relevant projects.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficiency in project management software tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Asana, Trello).
• Basic understanding of project management methodologies and principles.
• Detail-oriented and proactive problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team and adapt to changing project requirements.

We're a fast-growing tech startup building global infrastructure that powers the future of insurance. We're looking for a Technical Project Lead to guide clients through rapid, robust implementations on the Root platform. Your goal is to ensure that clients have effective, accurate, error-free and swift product launches, and work closely with our Solutions Engineering team to achieve successful implementations.

You will be responsible for collaborating closely with both the client and the solution engineers to design and solution tailored products on Root. Ensuring stakeholders are well-informed and project launches are on time and within budget, whilst supporting the client throughout the process.

This full-time role is based at our De Waterkant office in Cape Town, offering a flexible hybrid working model.

Project Delivery:

• Ensure that project plans are well scoped, accurate, up to date, and communicated frequently with all stakeholders (clients and internal).
• Work closely with internal teams and external contractors to ensure Root and the client have a clear, holistic systems understanding prior to and during launch to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Project and implementation risks are well identified, documented, actively managed and communicated.
• Solutions are designed with the overarching aim of rapid, effective systems integration as well as speed-to-market.
• Client meetings are effective, well structured and value-adding.
• Clients find it "easy" and "effective" to work with and launch a product on Root.
• Solutions are effectively conceptualised and solved using the existing Root-rails.
• Implementations are well tested to ensure clients experience seamless and error-free product set-ups.
• Client queries are resolved in a timely manner.
• Consistently direct clients towards adopting Root-aligned best practice.
• Managing timelines and ensuring deadlines are met.

Project Administration

• Track and continuously update project metrics and financial controls.
• Deliver projects on time and within budget, and accurately bill clients at monthly and at milestones.

Client Management

• As the primary contact-point for clients, you'll discern and clearly articulate their pain-points to the team, providing issue resolution and escalation.
• Actively lead the interaction with clients and ensure that client solution-related queries are understood, prioritised and solved.
• Manage reviews and client feedback post implementation
• Act as a passionate advocate for the product, championing its merits internally and externally to clients, partners, and stakeholders.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or Engineering
• 5+ years professional work experience
• Experience in spearheading projects, including analysing business requirements, conducting thorough research, and driving end-to-end project implementations while working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience collaborating with customers to capture, guide and define business requirements and translate business requirements into a working solution.
• Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation, providing detailed instructions that ensure accuracy and clarity in communication.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into actionable solutions, leveraging technical expertise to deliver effective outcomes.
• Rapidly prototype and test a solution to a problem.
• Experienced in utilising and configuring project management tools such as JIRA and Azure, optimising project workflows and collaboration.
• Able to manage personal time, output, and energy well, and comfortable working under pressure.
• A working value of high confidence and low ego.
• Great interpersonal skills and can build trust and confidence with others.
• High attention to detail.

Bonus points/nice to have:

• Good understanding of APIs and software integration, including the purpose of primary keys, enhancing comprehension of system architecture and design.
• Familiar with APIs and software integration principles, including web-services/HTTP and SFTP.
• Basic experience in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, enabling contribution to web-based solution development and customization.
• Proficient in using software/web development tools like text editors and Git version control.
• Experience working in the insurance industry.
• Experience working in a startup environment.

Our mission is to enable innovation in insurance by building the infrastructure required to reach the future of insurance. We are striving to be the global API standard for insurance.

• Lead by example: "Lean in, take charge, and always set a positive precedent."
• Exceed expectations: "Know your customer to delight your customer."
• Rally as one team: "Put aside egos and personal agendas to triumph as one."
• Own the mission: "Your job is not done until the job is done."
• Rise to the challenge: "Meaningful change requires meaningful effort and the courage to make bold moves."

Our team is made up of smart, passionate, and kind individuals working together to build a world-class business. We take the time to develop personal relationships with each other. Over and above daily team lunches, we do frequent team outings and ad-hoc adventures (when global pandemics permit).

We create and enable an environment for people to do their best work. To support this, we focus on a culture of autonomy, transparency and trust. As a startup, we care a lot about innovation, and believe in an iterative way of working to drive innovation forward. We encourage each other and foster a working culture of sharing early versions of our work and implementing feedback fast.

We have ambitious goals. Our mission is to transform insurance, globally, and we're making solid progress in South Africa and the UK. Your contribution will directly and visibly impact Root's continued success and expansion.

Our team is incredibly friendly and collaborative. If you care about solving challenging problems with smart people you enjoy being around, this is the place for you.

Please note… Open positions at Root are competitive and we often receive high volumes of applicants. If you have not received further updates on your application after three weeks, you're welcome to request feedback.

Full-time, starting on a fixed-term 6 months contract.

Remote out of South Africa or Hybrid out of Bangalore, India.

Time zone - CET, with occasional flexibility required for virtual meetings with stakeholders in other time zones, such as EST and IST.

About Greenpark

Greenpark is a global, award-winning, performance-driven content leader and brand publishing agency. Our Purpose is to help brands create meaningful connections that impact people's lives through performance-driven content for search and social. Our unique expertise in Omnichannel Search & Insights, Creative Content and Performance Tech are delivered to our clients via an ad agency and in-house model.

We do this for a global client portfolio including Unilever, Campari Group, AIA, Sanofi, Nestle, Lipton, Kimberley Clark, Kellogg's, Emma Sleep, De Beers and more.

Our Values

As a company, we strive and act together in our ambition to make a positive impact for the people and brands we serve, we do everything with kindness and respect at the core.
'We Strive
', '
Acting Together
', '
With Kindness
' are the values that guide us.

About the role

Our client, a leading pharmaceutical company, dares to change the way they work - bravely embracing innovation, resilience, and smart risk with a relentless drive for simplification.

Their Content Hub operates at a global scale with diverse capabilities that allows them to unlock value by enabling new and evolving ways of working. The team seeks to break boundaries, collaborate, challenge norms, and act with empowerment and engagement.

Project Focus and Scope:

• You will be directly responsible for the project management of several pilots and strategic initiatives, including:
• Capacity Management and Strategy for Content Studios: Continuing to manage the adoption of capacity of content studio resources, to ensure productivity in the specific content studios
• Content Process Support: Work Cross Functionally, to manage triage queries to appropriate SMS for action, follow-up and appropriate.
• AI Adoption & Enablement in Content Studios: Coordinating introduction and scaling of agentic AI tools and processes.
• Adobe Content Creation Pilots: Overseeing delivery, integration, and optimization of new content automation platforms.
• Jasper AI Content Writing Pilots: Managing rollout, workflow, and change programs for transformer-based writing tools across global teams.

What you'll do

• Project Management Leadership:
  Drive successful planning, coordination, and execution of multiple, concurrent transformation pilot projects, including scheduling, resource allocation, and deliverable tracking
• Stakeholder Engagement and Management:
  Build and maintain effective relationships with the client's internal and external contacts (anticipated: Workstream Leads, IT and Commercial Digital Health Leads, Executive business sponsors, Excellence center leads, Studio team members, Leadership, Steering Committees, vendors such as Adobe/Jasper, change leads) to ensure project visibility and alignment.
• Governance & Quality Assurance:
  Set, maintain, and continuously improve project governance, quality assurance, and compliance standards in accordance with our client's regulated industry guidelines.
• Readiness Criteria:
  Identify and agree transition readiness criteria for all pilot workstreams, including skills mapping, RACI establishment, and training.
• Strategic Risk & Issue Management:
  Proactively manage risks-especially around technical disruption, vendor adoption, data quality, operational complexity-and escalate/resolve issues in partnership with program and finance stakeholders.
• Budget & Resource Management:
  Oversee project budget, resource allocation, and escalation of financial impacts, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Change & Adoption Enablement:
  Work alongside the Change workstream to plan, develop, and drive training, communications, and upskilling activities required for AI adoption and digital transformation.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Iterate project plans to reflect evolving requirements, new discovery findings, or pilot outcomes; ensure action logs, risk/issue registries, and milestones are accurate and up to date.

About you

• Education: Bachelor's Degree:
  Business, Accounting, Finance, Digital, or related field; with 8+ years in global project/program management, preferably within shared service and transformation settings

• Essential Skills:

• Strong track record delivering complex, high-risk, multi-workstream projects and making strategic decisions.
• Prior experience with digital content, omnichannel, or AI-enabled service creation/optimization pilots.
• Excellent business acumen, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking.
• Independence and Problem-Solving Ability: Proven ability to operate with minimal supervision and build solutions to ambiguous or unprecedented challenges.
• Budget/Resource Management: Experience with financial oversight for large programs.
• Quality/Compliance Mindset: Demonstrated adherence to best practices and guidelines in regulated environments.

• Excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills (ranging from brilliant executors to senior executive sponsors), anticipated key relationships: Internal (Pharmaceutical client), Steering Committees, Business Managers / Leaders, Project/Programme Managers, Change Lead, Digital/IT Teams, Third Party Suppliers (Adobe, Jasper, etc.), and other consultancy partners

• Additional preferred skills:

• Project Management Qualification: (e.g. PMP, Prince2, Agile)
• Experience with enterprise platforms and AI tools such as Adobe Campaign, Jasper AI, Gen Studio, Workfront, or similar.
• Familiarity with change management, training program development, and digital product launch.
• Strategic Mindset: Able to connect project outcomes to broader business vision and transformation goals.
• Independent Worker: Comfortable driving workstreams, solving problems, and making decisions autonomously.
• Solution-Oriented: Demonstrates creativity, pragmatism, and a bias for action in overcoming obstacles and unlocking value in complex projects.
• You
  live & breathe Greenpark's core values
  —championing openness, respect, innovation, and teamwork—so that every interaction, both internally and externally, reflects our commitment to our values.

Bangalore/India-Specific Notes & Nuances

• Hybrid Work/Remote: The team operates under a hybrid model. Flexibility with both remote and onsite presence is expected.
• Global Time Zone Coordination: Occasional calls/meetings outside IST time zone, especially with UK/EU/US teams—candidates must be comfortable with flexible hours if needed.
• Language: Fluency in English (written/spoken) required; additional Indian languages valued.

At Greenpark, we believe the best ideas come from the widest range of perspectives. We welcome and celebrate every background, identity, and experience across our global workforce. By fostering a culture of respect, inclusivity, and collaboration, we're committed to ensuring everyone's voice is heard and everyone can thrive.

All applications shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status or any other protected characteristics.

Overview

We are a boutique headhunting firm seeking a versatile
IT Project Lead
to drive small but high-impact technology initiatives on a
3–6 month fixed-term contract
. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and enjoys designing practical IT solutions that empower non-technical staff.

The successful candidate will take ownership of projects that streamline our operations, improve data workflows, and provide the business with tools to remain at the forefront of talent search and intelligence.

Main Duties

• Lead and deliver small IT projects
  from concept to implementation, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Design and build automated website scraping tools
  to extract data from complex, dynamic websites (with appropriate compliance and ethical considerations).
• Ensure that scraping programs are
  easy to operate by non-technical staff
  , including intuitive interfaces or simple execution workflows.
• Develop and maintain data manipulation processes
  (cleaning, structuring, and transforming data for reporting and analysis).
• Improve existing IT tools and workflows
  , identifying opportunities for efficiency and automation.
• Provide light
  training and documentation
  for non-technical staff to use and benefit from developed tools.
• Collaborate with leadership to scope new IT initiatives, set timelines, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven track record of delivering small IT or software development projects independently.
• Strong knowledge of
  Python
  (with libraries such as BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Scrapy, or Playwright) for web scraping and automation.
• Experience working with
  databases and data manipulation
  (SQL, pandas, or similar).
• Ability to design
  user-friendly interfaces or processes
  that enable non-technical colleagues to operate complex tools.
• Familiarity with
  API integration
  and connecting third-party tools.
• Strong problem-solving ability and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills; comfortable documenting workflows and explaining technical concepts in plain English.

Desirable Skills

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with low-code / no-code integration platforms (e.g., Zapier, Make).
• Understanding of data security, compliance, and GDPR considerations.
• Background in professional services, recruitment, or headhunting (not required, but beneficial).

Attributes

• Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple small projects at once.
• Pragmatic: prioritises
  solutions that are effective and usable
  , not overly engineered.
• Collaborative and approachable, with a knack for supporting non-technical colleagues.
• Curious and proactive in suggesting improvements to business processes.

Contract Details

• Type:
  3 month fixed-term contract
• Location:
  Hybrid – 2–3 days per week in the office, with flexibility for remote working
• Start Date:
  as soon as possible
• Compensation:
  Competitive, commensurate with experience

Role

DGMT is a public innovator committed to developing South Africa's potential through strategic investment. Our goal for South Africa is a flourishing people, economy and society.

Amplify | Mobilise | Change is an initiative that seeks to strengthen and connect efforts toward digital advocacy. Through AMC, DGMT works with partners across sectors to amplify promising approaches, mobilise networks of practice, and drive social change through digital communication.

To coordinate and deepen the implementation of this work, we are looking to employ a Project Lead to manage AMC's partnerships, delivery, and learning processes.

We are looking for a thoughtful, proactive person who is passionate about social change, has strong organisational and relationship management skills, and can drive collaborative implementation across multiple partners and contexts.

Minimum requirements

• A relevant tertiary qualification in social sciences, development studies, public health, or a related field.
• A postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
• Minimum 5–7 years' experience in programme or project management within the social or development sector.
• Experience working on issues related to gender, social inclusion, community development, or men's wellbeing.
• Strong background in stakeholder management and collaborative partnership development.
• Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills.
• Familiarity with monitoring, evaluation, and learning approaches.
• Strong commitment to social justice, inclusion, and transformation.
• Empathetic and able to engage constructively with diverse stakeholders.
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Strategic thinker who can translate vision into practical delivery.
• Curious, reflective, and open to learning.
• Confident communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall coordination and leadership for the AMC initiative, ensuring coherence and momentum across all project partners and activities.
• Manage relationships with implementing partners, ensuring alignment with AMC's goals and principles.
• Oversee project planning, budgeting, and reporting to ensure effective delivery and accountability.
• Coordinate learning and reflection processes, ensuring evidence and insights are captured and shared to strengthen implementation.
• Support communication and advocacy efforts to amplify the work and deepen public understanding of the power of digital advocacy and connection.
• Facilitate collaboration between DGMT's innovation, operations, and communications teams to advance AMC's objectives.
• Represent AMC in relevant stakeholder forums, partnerships, and events.

How to apply

Applicants should submit their CV and motivational letter by 30 November 2025 by clicking APPLY. You will be directed to our recruitment portal. Scroll to the bottom, click apply and complete the form.

Forte Supply Chain Solutions is seeking a highly motivated and organised WMS Project Lead to join our growing team.

Forte Supply Chain Solutions is a group of experts who bridge the gap between our client's business needs and their software requirements. We improve and empower businesses by offering expert advice, backed by a wealth of industry experience and a partner network of purpose-built software stacks.

Forte Supply Chain Solutions works with transport, warehouse, and other industry clients in Southern Africa and beyond.

Location:
Gauteng / Western Cape

Closing date:
30 September 2025

Reports to:
The appointee will report to the Operations Manager.

Main purpose of role

In this role, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing our WMS software implementation projects from inception to completion. You will be responsible for developing and executing project plans, facilitating communication and collaboration within the team, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and exceeding client expectations.

Project Management includes, but not limited to:

• Project Lead includes drafting and executing of project plans, facilitating project meetings, making sure deadlines are met and documenting all aspects of the specific project. Work closely together with our software partners, especially with regards to the testing of new development and managing current client requirements and expectations in terms of implementing the software and the utilisation thereof.
• Responsible for training the client's staff on WMS partner software with on-site or digital assistance & support during go-live of the project.
• Ensuring action dates/ deadlines are being made and manage the responsible parties accordingly.
• Plan and communicate client visits or training – communicate with Operational Manager in terms of the planning of new projects or continues improvement work for current clients.
• Keep Zoho, Planning sheets, Commercials, or any other packages, updated with project plans during active projects.
• Responsible to investigate current client solution(s) using our partners, with the purpose of understanding the active client current solution, relevant to the latest or better fit solution(s) available to current client.
• Project steps: Process Specification, UAT, Training and Go Live.
• Responsible for Client CIP together with the Client Champion.
• Assist in interacting with new clients.
• Be able to perform demonstrations of main partner software for potential clients.

If you have the following skills, this is the role for you:

• Attention to detail & critical thinking.
• Execution and decision making
• Reliable and responsible
• Pro-active
• Take ownership.
• Communication
• Relationship building
• Strategy development
• Time Management
• Business acumen - Understanding the industry requirement and implementing best practice.
• Previous project management and WMS experience will be advantageous.

Working Conditions:

• Flexibility for travel between provinces in South Africa as well as cross borders (Africa).
• Needs to be available to work infrequent hours. Especially during client visit travelling.
• Initial and on-the-job training to be provided.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on a variety of challenging and rewarding projects.
• Collaborative, caring and supportive work environment.
• Flexible remote work arrangements.

Final Details:

• Salary is based on experience and will be discussed during the interview.
• Gross Package includes a laptop, cell phone and internet router.
• Gross package does not include medical aid & pension fund contributions
• Travel subsistence is paid on a travel base OR a company fleet car is provided.
• Incentive Structure Applies

To Apply:

Please submit your 2- 3-page CV and cover letter to

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

Description
Zutari: Co-creating an engineered impact.
We co-create engineering solutions that have a positive impact and improve people's lives. Zutari values inclusion and recognises the importance of a diverse, talented workforce, believing that people need other people to succeed.

What kind of talent do we pursue?
We employ people with the right attitude and a positive mindset, who are motivated by doing the right thing, getting things done and share a sense of urgency. People who have an impact in our teams and broader community. People who think differently and connect with those around them to co-create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.

Role overview:
The role of a Project Commercial Lead is integral to enabling Project Executives to ensure the financial and business success of their projects whilst maintaining the highest quality of delivery.

This position involves overseeing various commercial aspects of projects including contractual, technical, and financial operational requirements, whilst ensuring that the Project Team operates efficiently and profitably.

The Project Commercial Lead plays a key role in negotiating contracts, managing costs, mitigating risks, and fostering positive client relationships by freeing the Project Executive up to focus on the core e and relational aspects of the project executive role.

Role Responsibilities

• Capability and Support:

• Assisting the Project Management Business Units in Africa and the Middle East to build the required capability towards Contract Management and Controls functions.

• Develop, implement, and maintain the Zutari project commercial management system, in accordance with industry best practice and standards.
• Development of Project Executives to understand project commercial management through learning interventions.

• Support governance processes on project commercial health and risk management.

• Delivery Model:

• Assist Project Executive to select the correct delivery model and technical solution for the project (particularly with significant projects, major projects and framework agreements).

• Ensuring that the project implementation methodology is executable and enabled by the project contract and financially viable and profitable.

• Contract Management:

• Provide expertise and oversee negotiations of contracts with Clients, Contractors, Subcontractors, and Suppliers.

• Ensuring that contract terms are favourable and in alignment with Zutari's objectives.

• Cost Control:

• Have oversite and monitor project costs, budgets, and expenses on an ongoing basis.

• Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency.
• Track earned value and estimate to complete, ensuring timely interventions to ensure that the project financial metrics exceed the "as bid" parameters.

• Pro-actively identify positive and negative variances and support the Project Executive to exploit or mitigate identified opportunities or risks.

• Risk Management:

• Assist the Project Executive in identifying and mitigating risks, including financial, legal, and operational risks.

• Developing risk management strategies to minimize potential negative impacts and maximize potential positive impacts.

• Pricing and Bidding:

• Setting pricing strategies for the project during the pursuit or bidding stages to ensure that the proposal is competitive.

• Ensuring that the project execution plan enables the Project Team to execute on the pricing strategy.

• Procurement:

• Managing procurement processes, including internal and external vendor selection and negotiation.

• Client Relations:

• Support project executive in Building and maintaining positive relationships with the Clients whilst protecting the commercial and contractual integrity of the project.

• Compliance:

• Enabling that projects comply with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.

• Enabling that Project Executives consistently implement and monitor compliance procedures.

• Assisting Managing Directors to apply consequence management for non-conformances.

• Reporting:

• Preparing financial reports, forecasts, and presentations for the Project Management and relevant project governance functions.

• Communicating financial performance and key metrics.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum years of experience in a similar role within the engineering or construction industry essential
• Degree in business, finance, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related field.
• A postgraduate qualification (master's degree) in contract or commercial management preferred
• Professional certifications in project management, finance, or related fields
• Exposure to projects from an Owner, Consultant, and Contractor perspective would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Understand industry trends, pricing strategies, and competitive positioning.
• Understand project finances, forecasting, and reporting.
• Navigating complex agreements, claims, and dispute resolution.
• Identifying and mitigating financial and operational risks.
• Understanding legal frameworks governing contracts and procurement.
• CRM and ERP systems (Deltek)

We believe that a diverse workforce is key to our business success. We seek the best people for our jobs based on their skills, qualifications, and experience. We embrace the principle of equal opportunity in employment, and we work towards eliminating all forms of unlawful discrimination in our employment practices. In support of diversity and the equal opportunity principle, preference will be given to individuals from designated groups within South Africa.

To provide scientific leadership, mentorship and support to multi-disciplinary teams in the laboratory environment at the Platform.

Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is a talent driven, customer- centric and impact focused organisation. In our endeavour to support technology innovation with socio-economic outcomes; we seek to infuse the organisation with team players that find resonance as value creators, agile thinkers, progressive attitudes, customer-centricity, dynamic work ethic and an optimistic disposition. We aim to harness these attributes in a manner that they culminate into a culture of teamwork, impact and accountability.

In executing its mandate, the organisation provides funding and non-funding support to stimulate innovation so that it provides a catalytic impact to the economy whilst improving people's lives and protecting the environment. The Agency endeavours to promote the careers of previously disadvantaged persons by applying the principles of the Employment Equity Act, as amended.

The agency reserve thed right not to fill this position.

Qualifications

• MSc Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry or Microbiology
• Preferred: PhD degree

Work Exprerience

• 4 years' experience in the relevant scientific field.
• Be registered with the relevant professional legislated regulatory body. i.e. HPCSA, SACNASP

Finance

• Give input to the formulation of the operational budget and monitor and track applicable spending.
• Provide leadership with expenditure undertaken by the diagnostic section
• Manage and monitor financial obligations that projects have to TIA (e.g. service fees, generation of service quotes, invoices etc)
• Solicit additional funding through submission funding proposals

Stakeholder Relations Plans

• Assume custodianship for linking the Platform and diagnostic section with relevant accreditation authority.
• Manage effective internal and/or external Stakeholder relationships:
• Deliver required service to the stakeholder on brief, time and with quality
• Respond timeous to queries of the stakeholder
• Maintain professional engagements and continuously exceed expectations

Internal Processes

• Lead a multidisciplinary team in diagnostic section, to deliver on approved assignment and assays.
• Provide project management and leadership on assigned projects including project costing
• Provide critical input into the operational plan of the Platform with regards to the area of expertise, i.e. diagnostic sections.
• Lead process of certifying the Diagnostic section in according to the relevant requirement i.e. SANAS. DoH etc
• Develop research protocols and SOP for the laboratory with assistance from other Platform scientists
• Ensure timeous and accurate reporting as per requirements to clients, funders, and other stakeholders. Prepare technical reports, summaries and protocols of the reports
• Compile internal and external proposals with input from the Platform technical team & complete external project review forms
• Ensure adherence to all legal compliance and business processes
• Conduct a technical feasibility study and project definition meeting
• Define a consolidated project plan with deliverables as identified in the project definition meeting
• Source approved equipment and consumables and manage stock levels
• Manage the lab equipment and oversee the general housekeeping of the laboratory.
• Manage SLA's and service received from providers.
• Develop new products and processes at the Platform: Design experiments, analyses results and compile SOP's and test methods in line with client needs and statutory requirements.
• Trouble shoot experimental problems and find solutions
• Draft and publish scientific and technical papers

Governance and Compliance

• Ensure compliance with Legislation, e.g. PFMA and National Treasury Guidelines;
• Ensure compliance to all relevant accounting Standards, Policies and Frameworks; and
• Ensure Compliance with TIA Standard Operating Procedures
• Be registered with the relevant professional legislated regulatory body. i.e. HPCSA, SACNASP