Senior Manager – Project Management

Role Overview

• Lead and direct large, complex programmes and projects across multiple delivery streams, ensuring clear alignment between strategy, execution, and business value.
• Provide oversight across the full delivery lifecycle, manage critical interdependencies, and ensure programmes deliver against agreed objectives, milestones, outcomes, and benefits in line with approved portfolio priorities, value streams, and strategic themes.
• Drive and influence Lean Portfolio Management outcomes by contributing to portfolio shaping, prioritisation, sequencing, and investment decision-making aligned to strategic objectives, funding guardrails, value realisation, and delivery capacity.
• Ensure initiatives are positioned against endorsed priorities and strategic intent, while providing leadership visibility on trade-offs, risks, progress, and benefits to support informed portfolio decisions.
• Provide strong governance and assurance leadership across all programmes by embedding delivery discipline, quality standards, compliance requirements, and audit-ready practices throughout the lifecycle.
• Drive disciplined programme execution to ensure milestones, EPIC deliverables, and strategic outcomes are delivered on time, within scope, and to the required quality standard.
• Build and manage trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Business, Change, Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, and Executive governance structures.
• Lead proactive risk, issue, and dependency management across programmes by anticipating potential challenges early, assessing impact, and driving appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Provide visible and credible leadership across programmes by bridging business and technology domains to shape practical, scalable, and customer-centric solutions.
• Ensure that programmes are structured and governed to realise measurable business value and strategic benefits.

Requirements

• Minimum NQF Level 7 qualification or equivalent in Business, Commerce, Management Studies, Project Management, or a related field.
• A postgraduate qualification will be advantageous.
• Project or programme management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent will be advantageous.
• 5-8 years experience in project and programme delivery, with significant experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives in a financial services, Channel, or similar environment.
• Proven experience managing large-scale programmes across the full delivery lifecycle, from initiation and planning through to execution, governance, implementation, and benefits tracking.
• Strong experience delivering strategic transformation initiatives and EPICs across Channel, Operations, Technology, or related business areas.
• Demonstrated exposure to executive and portfolio governance forums such as SteerCo, Change Council, Exco, ART, or equivalent delivery forums.
• Experience in portfolio prioritisation, investment planning, capacity alignment, and benefits realisation within a Lean Portfolio Management or similar environment.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, programme reporting, and project delivery tools such as MS Project, Agile tools, and portfolio management platforms.
• Proven track record in senior stakeholder engagement, influencing, and managing delivery across multiple teams and business areas.

Tech Stack

• PMP

Benefits

• Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.