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.

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.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and decisionmaking capabilities, clear communication across business and technical stakeholders, and the ability to balance standard product leverage with targeted configurations.
• Demonstrate rigor in gap analysis, integration design, data flow rationalization, and nonfunctional architecture, with a disciplined approach to baselining and change control.
• Outcomeoriented, aligning architecture to release milestones, test readiness, and acceptance quality gates.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship across teams to embed best practices and consistency throughout the program.

Qualifications

15 years+ experience in delivery large complex programs. This role requires proven leadership of large, multiphase enterprise programs delivering complex planning and scheduling solutions, including timetabled service planning, network access planning, fleet and crew planning, and yard planning within the Freight Rail Industry (Trains).