Data Analytics Project Manager - (CONTRACT)

PM Connection · Sandton, Gauteng

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Purpose

To lead the delivery of enterprise data and analytics programmes, ensuring alignment to business priorities, data governance frameworks, and measurable value realisation across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Programme Delivery and Governance:
  • Lead delivery of complex data and analytics programmes across multiple business
  • Establish robust governance, reporting, and execution disciplines (RAID, milestones, dependencies).
  • Manage delivery across data engineering, BI, and analytics
  • Data Platform and Analytics Delivery:
  • Oversee implementation of enterprise data platforms, reporting solutions, and advanced analytics use cases.
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, standards, and data
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Value Realisation:
  • Engage senior stakeholders to define use cases, success measures, and value
  • Drive prioritization of high-impact initiatives and track realised business
  • Data Governance and Compliance:
  • Ensure alignment with data governance frameworks including ownership, quality, and
  • Support audit and compliance requirements across reporting and data
  • Integration and Architecture Alignment:
  • Oversee integration across ERP, operational systems, and external data
  • Ensure scalable and sustainable data pipelines and
  • Testing, Deployment and Adoption Enablement:
  • Ensure validation of data accuracy, reporting outputs, and analytics
  • Drive successful deployment and embed analytics into business decision-making
  • Post Implementation Support:

Oversee transition to support teams and continuous improvement of analytics solutions.

  • Overall Project Management Experience:
  • Minimum 5–8 years’ experience delivering enterprise IT or data
  • Proven track record managing complex projects across multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and vendors.
  • Experience in programme governance, planning, RAID management, milestone tracking, and executive reporting.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver projects in highly governed and audit-sensitive
  • Technical Skills:
  • Strong understanding of modern data platforms, including Azure Data Platform, Power BI, and data lakes.
  • Experience with ERP data environments such as Oracle and SAP, including enterprise integration considerations.
  • Knowledge of data, analytics, business intelligence, and reporting solution
  • Key Competencies:
  • Strong analytical and structured delivery
  • Executive stakeholder
  • Governance and audit
  • Ability to translate business problems into data
  • Delivery leadership across complex, multi-stakeholder

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