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Senior Project Manager

Job in Durban, 4056, South Africa
Listing for: Derivco
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-27
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Change Management, IT Project Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below

What you’ll be doing Lead complex, high-impact programmes

  • Deliver large, multi-team, multi-stream projects from initiation through to closure
  • Drive clarity across ambiguity, ensuring work progresses with momentum and purpose
  • Own timelines, dependencies, and outcomes across multiple work streams
Drive transformation in core tech tooling
  • Lead projects that impact engineering ways of working and internal platforms
  • Deliver initiatives such as:
    • Source code tool migrations
    • Enterprise tooling implementations (e.g. Jira, Monday, Anaplan)
    • Process and workflow optimisation across teams
Be the bridge between business & technology
  • Translate technical challenges into clear, actionable plans and narratives
  • Work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
  • Enable informed decision-making across all levels
Champion pragmatic project delivery
  • Apply project management best practices intelligently — not dogmatically
  • Adapt delivery approaches to suit the context, teams, and outcomes required
  • Balance governance with agility to keep teams effective, not constrained
Lead change that sticks
  • Treat every user as a stakeholder
  • Drive adoption through:
    • Strong communication
    • Change impact assessments
    • Structured rollout and enablement approaches
  • Navigate resistance and build alignment across diverse teams
Strengthen our delivery capability
  • Mentor and develop other project practitioners
  • Improve governance frameworks, templates, and delivery standards
  • Contribute to the evolution of project management maturity across the organisation.
What you’ll bring Experience
  • 6–8+ years in project/programme management within technology environments
  • Proven experience delivering complex, multi-team initiatives independently
  • Background in a software development or engineering-led organisation
  • Hands‑on experience with enterprise tool implementations or migrations (e.g. Jira, SCM tools, planning platforms)
Expertise
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Software development lifecycle (SDLC)
    • Agile and hybrid delivery models
    • Governance, risk, and dependency management
Skills that set you apart
  • Ability to influence without authority across senior stakeholders
  • Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills
  • Strong change management capability — you know how to bring people with you
  • Commercial awareness and delivery accountability
  • Pragmatic mindset — you focus on outcomes over process purity
Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
  • PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification preferred

Closing date: 01 July 2026

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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