Senior Project Manager - Cape Town ( contract | immediate start essential)

Confidential

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa permanent

Posted: February 18, 2026

Required Skills

Job Description

*We are urgently looking for a Senior Project Manager on a contract basis, based in Cape Town.

This will be a short term contract role, initially for three to four months. The person will need to be on site and able to step in quickly, as the requirement is immediate. *

Alacrity, a division of Saratoga, is seeking a skilled Senior Project Manager to join the international team at our client, Worldwide Chain Stores.

As the Senior Project Manager you will lead complex, high-value, multi-stream implementations for IT and Supply Chain global enterprise clients. This role owns delivery, executive stakeholder alignment, commercial outcomes, and governance across large or business-critical projects.

You will act as a trusted advisor to client leadership, steering committees, and internal executives while ensuring projects deliver measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Delivery Leadership

• Lead complex, multi-workstream software implementations from initiation through go-live and transition to support.

• Own delivery for large or business-critical projects.

• Direct globally distributed technical and consulting teams.

• Ensure projects meet scope, timeline, quality, and financial targets.

2. Executive Stakeholder Management

• Engage with C-suite and executive sponsors on both client and internal sides.

• Lead steering committee meetings and executive governance forums.

• Translate technical delivery risks into strategic business language.

3. Commercial & Strategic Ownership

• Own financial performance including forecasting, margin protection, and revenue realization.

• Identify expansion or upsell opportunities during project lifecycle.

• Draft Statements of Work and change requests.

4. Risk & Governance

• Anticipate enterprise-level delivery risks and implement mitigation strategies.

• Escalate critical issues proactively and manage cross-programme dependencies.

• Ensure delivery governance frameworks, reporting standards, and KPIs are followed.

5. Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor Project Managers and delivery teams.

• Contribute to internal continuous improvement and delivery best practices.

• Support resource planning across multiple projects.

• Support go lives which can involve evening / weekend work as required.

• Perform any other reasonable duties as required by management

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