8 Project Managers jobs in Secunda

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of B.Eng or B.Tech qualification in Mechanical, Chemical or Control Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical qualification.
• Project management qualification would be an advantage.
• Experience working/contracting with Refineries in SA will be an advantage.
• Experience in typical contracting formats (NEC 3 preferred), EPC or EPCm.
• Proficient in MS Office.
• Self-starter with good people skills.
• Valid Code B/EB driver’s license.

• Responsibility of managing multi-disciplinary projects assigned to the individual for the full life cycle of the project, which could include FEED, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning.
• Compile Quotations and Tenders for prospective work.
• Develop project execution plans in line with contract requirements.
• Develop and review overall Quality management/Control plans for projects.
• Manage cash flow and project budget.
• Identify and appoint all resources (including sub-contracted services) for each project.
• Ensure coordination of all resources and functions to meet contract obligations.
• Project Schedule Management.
• Project Quality and Safety Management during execution.
• Follow Business Management System.
• The effective use of MS Projects/P6 and other software systems which may be required.
• Maintain good relationships with colleagues and clients.

To manage, coordinate, and ensure timely and effective execution of projects within Empanda. The role entails working collaboratively across change, communications, and learning projects to ensure delivery to time, cost, and quality, whilst enabling and supporting consultants.

The purpose of this job is to lead project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting activities for all assigned projects. The role will guarantee alignment with the organization's strategic objectives and will oversee communication with all project stakeholders, promoting effective collaboration and successful project delivery.

To be the key catalyst in a project, promoting the project's vision and benefits, ensuring alignment between Empanda HQ, the Client, and the Project Team. To inspire and guide project stakeholders, ensuring that everyone works together to deliver on time, within budget, and with high quality, including:

• To co-ordinate project mobilisation and resource onboarding.
• To baseline the resource planning and project toolkits for the project.
• To ensure that teams are trained and introduced to stakeholders.
• Health check and Quality Assurance
  • To run the health check drumbeat to assure project quality.
  • To identify gaps in delivery and support needs and resolve them.
  • To manage the escalation and management of risks and issues.
• Project Governance and Reporting
  • To oversee project governance and status meetings.
  • To develop and share understanding of KPIs indicating project success.
  • To facilitate decision making and action steps that drive the project forward.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • To oversee project stakeholder engagement and report on quality.
  • To ensure engagement with client sponsors and solution providers.
  • To assure quality listening and engagement on projects.
• Delivery, Resource Management, Budget, and Time Tracking
  • To consolidate project time and budgets, reporting on variances.
  • To ensure that forecasts are updated, and commercials negotiated on time.
  • To maintain the project and client roles and responsibilities.
• Project Delivery Oversight
  • To track the delivery of the statement of work and on time delivery.
  • To ensure project resources have a clear vision, objective, and approach.
  • To ensure an early, ordered, scoping of project creative services requirements.
• Benefit Realisation and Scope
  • To ensure that projects have a clear understanding of benefits and scope.
  • To ensure that there is benefit realisation coaching on the approach.
  • To identify scope gaps and opportunities for additional services.
• Project Close Out and Continuous Learning
  • To manage the close out of projects and packaging of deliverables.
  • To oversee lessons learned processes including NPS feedback sessions.
  • To plan offboarding and best use of resources rolling off projects.
• Coach for Empanda Project Ways of Working
  • Understand and apply the Empanda project management approach.
  • Promote process excellence and observe quality standards.
  • Adhere to reporting and governance requirements.

You need to be:

• An experienced project manager familiar with agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Familiar with change, communications, and learning projects and deliverables.
• Analytical, detail-oriented, and organised, with strong planning abilities.
• Good at problem-solving, enabling decisions and managing risks and issues.
• Good at motivating for performance, with strong interpersonal skills.
• Experienced managing budgets, plans, status reports, and trackers.
• Adept at learning quickly and coaching, including onboarding and guidance.

Critical Skills:

• Project planning and management skills and certification.
• Able to work efficiently and objectively under pressure.
• Excellent excel and ability with planning tools such as Smartsheet or MS Project.
• Excellent visual, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Consulting

Our client consists of a group of experienced industry veterans looking to revolutionize the survey data and sampling process. Their clients include the world’s top management consultancies, market research agencies, and brands. Their mission is to make their clients’ research process easier and to be a reliable, repeatable data collection partner.

The Senior Project Manager delivers quality market research projects in a way that consistently results in the highest level of client satisfaction. The Senior Project Manager is an organized, detail-oriented individual with the ability to successfully manage multiple projects from start to finish, in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. The Senior Project Manager will work within a team of several other project managers reporting to one of their Client Experience Managers.

The shift for this position aligns with US business hours in Central Time, which equates to 3pm - 12am SAT from March to November and 4pm - 1am SAT from November to March.

• Proactively lead advanced market research projects with survey programming, sample delivery, and post-field deliverables from kick-off to successful close.
• Lead all aspects of client communication during project delivery including timelines, assigning responsibilities, updates, and issue resolution.
• Exemplify exceptional customer service by understanding and successfully delivering customer requests with proactive, effective communication.
• Lead and coordinate support from internal team members and third-party partners with clear specifications, timelines, and expectations.
• Immerse yourself in our clients’ businesses, understanding their challenges, objectives, how it is performing, and how they define success.
• Partner with leadership in driving continuous improvements to the company’s operating model including the design and deployment of new technologies, processes, and revised roles.

Required

• 3+ years of excellence in client-facing project management of advanced online sample projects.
• Functional knowledge of survey platforms, such as SurveyMonkey, Decipher, or Qualtrics.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including knowledge of advanced formulas, VLOOKUP, and pivot tables.
• Native-like fluency in business English, with a wide knowledge of various professional terms from different industries.
• A reliable at-home fibre internet connection with a minimum speed of 20 Mbps is a requirement of the position.

Preferred

• Knowledge of DIY sampling platforms highly preferred, and ample experience expected managing sample collection across a variety of panels and clients.
• Bachelor's degree.

Attributes

• An energetic self-starter with a proactive attitude who can learn quickly.
• Strong critical thinker with excellent time management, prioritization, and organization skills including the ability to effectively multi-task under pressure.
• Professional demeanour, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced continuous learning, continuous improvement environment.
• Positive energy and ability to handle stress in the face of challenges.

HR Services, Recruitment & Selection.

Overview

Ignite Visibility, a fast-growing U.S. award-winning digital marketing company, is looking for a talented full-time International Sr. Digital Marketing Project Manager to join our team. The Sr. Project Manager is a client-facing role that oversees the entire lifecycle of digital projects across various marketing channels from inception to launch for franchise/multi-location clients. They collaborate with external stakeholders, internal team members, and vendors on project scope; lead teams in developing marketing projects; and prepare project status reports. This role suits someone who thrives in rapidly changing environments and can stay abreast of shifting schedules, expectations, and resource management.

This role is for International talents only. If you reside in Latin American countries or South Africa, please apply.

• Lead and deliver end-to-end digital marketing projects across SEO, Paid Media, website, lifecycle, organic social, content, PR, and other channels to deliver projects on time, on budget, and with high quality
• Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for assigned projects across franchise and multi-location clients
• Assist in the initial onboarding of new client projects
• Manage client expectations and strategies from inception to delivery
• Set and prepare the budget, tools, scope, and timeline for digital marketing channel projects
• Ensure project profitability and efficiencies while utilizing agency resources
• Collaborate with internal departments to ensure timely, quality work
• Create deadlines and action items for every project team member
• Oversee code development and testing
• Manage project launch activities
• Lead daily or weekly project team meetings to review progress
• Communicate regular project status updates to external stakeholders
• Obtain client approvals for all new estimates and change orders
• Address bottlenecks and adjust timelines and deliverables
• Work with team members individually to resolve issues
• Review, analyze, and evaluate current operational processes and performance regarding projects, recommending improvements when necessary
• Build and maintain relationships with all department heads, account management team, external partners, and vendors to aid decision-making on marketing project activities
• Schedule and participate in weekly update meetings with the Director of Operations to discuss priorities, accomplishments, and hurdles
• Use the company’s business management and communication platforms to keep stakeholders informed, assign tasks, and manage projects in accordance with deadlines
• Communicate effectively with all parties involved in projects
• Perform ongoing professional development to keep pace with changes and trends in the digital marketing industry
• Stay on top of industry trends to stay on the cutting edge
• Assist the sales team with presentations and proposal development
• Perform other duties as assigned by management

• Minimum 6+ years of experience managing end-to-end digital marketing projects across multiple channels
• Experience in franchise or multi-location businesses
• Agency setting experience and client-facing experience
• Positive attitude and ability to motivate teams to meet deadlines
• Ability to manage cross-disciplinary teams from strategy, design, content, and development phases
• Knowledge of project management frameworks
• Demonstrated experience managing and leading multiple concurrent projects across SEO, Paid Media, Email, CRO, social media, and more
• Well-developed English communication skills with clear, intentional, friendly written and verbal communication
• Ability to forecast, benchmark, and analyze project budgets from hourly and cost/profit perspectives
• Demonstrated skills in project management planning, risk management, resource management, budget management, and team coordination
• Hands-on experience with project management software such as Monday.com or similar
• Effective English communication and comfort leading internal and external meetings
• Excellent time-management, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Strategic and critical thinking, including exercising professional judgment

• A collaborative environment focused on client success and career development
• Fully remote workforce with optional San Diego office
• Two-time Landy Award Winner (Search Marketer of the Year & Best Paid Search Initiative)
• Recognized as one of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in San Diego )
• Named Best Places to Work in San Diego 2017, 2020
• Named Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Companies
• San Diego Business Journal Best Place to Work, 2024

• Competitive salary
• Fully remote work schedules
• Comprehensive benefits and extra time off around major holidays
• Employee advancement and growth potential
• Company-sponsored professional development opportunities

Our client consists of a group of experienced industry veterans looking to revolutionize the survey data and sampling process. Their clients include the world’s top management consultancies, market research agencies, and brands. Their mission is to make their clients’ research process easier and to be a reliable, repeatable data collection partner.

The Senior Project Manager delivers quality market research projects in a way that consistently results in the highest level of client satisfaction. The Senior Project Manager is an organized, detail-oriented individual with the ability to successfully manage multiple projects from start to finish, in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. The Senior Project Manager will work within a team of several other project managers reporting to one of their Client Experience Managers.

The shift for this position aligns with US business hours in Central Time, which equates to 3pm - 12am SAT from March to November and 4pm - 1am SAT from November to March.

1. Proactively lead advanced market research projects with survey programming, sample delivery, and post-field deliverables from kick-off to successful close.
2. Lead all aspects of client communication during project delivery including timelines, assigning responsibilities, updates, and issue resolution.
3. Exemplify exceptional customer service by understanding and successfully delivering customer requests with proactive, effective communication.
4. Lead and coordinate support from internal team members and third-party partners with clear specifications, timelines, and expectations.
5. Immerse yourself in our clients’ businesses, understanding their challenges, objectives, how it is performing, and how they define success.
6. Partner with leadership in driving continuous improvements to the company’s operating model including the design and deployment of new technologies, processes, and revised roles.

Required

• 3+ years of excellence in client-facing project management of advanced online sample projects.
• Functional knowledge of survey platforms, such as SurveyMonkey, Decipher, or Qualtrics.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including knowledge of advanced formulas, VLOOKUP, and pivot tables.
• Native-like fluency in business English, with a wide knowledge of various professional terms from different industries.
• A home fibre internet connection with a minimum speed of 20 Mbps is a requirement of the position.

Preferred

• Knowledge of DIY sampling platforms highly preferred, and ample experience expected managing sample collection across a variety of panels and clients.
• Bachelor's degree.

Attributes

• An energetic self-starter with a proactive attitude who can learn quickly.
• Strong critical thinker with excellent time management, prioritization, and organization skills including the ability to effectively multi-task under pressure.
• Professional demeanor, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced continuous learning, continuous improvement environment.
• Positive energy and ability to handle stress in the face of challenges.

• HR Services, Recruitment & Selection.