Sandton: Complex Program Delivery Lead posted by Blue Pearl PTY LTD

About the Role

The Project Delivery Executive leads end-to-end delivery of a multi-year integrated planning program spanning service, network, fleet, yard, and crew planning. The role is accountable for program governance, scope and schedule integrity across phased releases, proactive risk and issue management, and the quality and formal acceptance of deliverables through the implementation cycles.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all services and deliverables are executed against agreed timeframes, quality standards, and acceptance criteria, coordinating written proposals for permissible amendments through defined change procedures.
• Lead planning and execution across program phases and releases, overseeing value delivery and adherence to defined durations and deliverables, including functional and technical specifications, implementation packages , traceability matrices, installation notes, training materials, and user acceptance test results.
• Define and document the Quality Management Plan, agree it with stakeholders, and baseline it; initiate and maintain the delivery register; and apply implementation and quality methodologies and tools to monitor status, quality, and completion with formal handover.
• Own the integrated schedule with tasks, durations, milestones, resources, and dependencies, keeping it current. They document risks, issues, and actions, plan mitigations, and maintain a live register throughout all phases.
• Define stakeholders, roles and responsibilities, and expectations; prepare for and conduct project, steering, and executive committee meetings; manage and report actions and decisions; and document the program organization and governance charter. They apply a structured change control procedure for deviations that affect scope, schedule, charges, or other terms.

Requirements

Collaboration and Governance:

• Partner closely with enterprise architects, solution architects, and IT stakeholders (systems, storage, database, monitoring, network, disaster recovery) to ensure the architecture is resilient, secure, and performant.
• Provide architectural guidelines to Business Domain teams, coordinate with data teams on master and transactional data mapping from legacy to the target solution, and support project, steering, and executive committees with clear architectural status, risks, and decisions.
• Ensure that architectural assumptions and constraints are understood by build and test teams and that deviations are addressed through structured change control with appropriate impact analysis.