Project Manager (Strategic & Run)

Role Summary

The PMO Project Manager will consolidate, integrate, and oversee Group-developed clinical and non-clinical projects designated for hospital delivery. The role supports hospital project leaders, provides assurance and reporting, and aligns delivery with Group sponsors to ensure projects achieve agreed time, quality, and cost outcomes.

Key Performance Areas: (include but are not limited to)

The successful candidate will perform, inter alia, the following key performance areas:

Key Performance Areas

Consolidate Group-sponsored hospital projects into a unified portfolio, maintaining a single view of status, timelines, dependencies, and sequencing.

Support and coach hospital project leaders on project methods, tools, scoping, execution, and reporting standards, while building project management capability across hospitals.

Review and validate hospital project plans, tracking milestones, budgets, resources, scope changes, and delivery risks, and supporting corrective action to prevent overruns.

Maintain central project risk, issue and dependency registers, facilitate mitigation, and root cause analysis, and escalate cross-functional blockers.

Provide structured project dashboards and status reporting to Group Operations and executive leadership, including performance tracking and assurance reviews.

Facilitate cross-functional project forums, clarify responsibilities and handovers, maintain decision logs, and monitor agreed actions.

Maintain and promote standard project management methods, templates, toolkits, and governance frameworks, including lessons learned and continuous improvement.

Post Requirements: (include but are not limited to)

Minimum Required Education

Bachelor's degree in project management, Business Administration, Health Administration, or a related field.

Professional project management certification such as PMBOK, PRINCE2 or Agile is preferred.

Inherent Requirements

5–7 years of project management experience, including demonstrated delivery of multiple concurrent projects with diverse stakeholders.

Ability to translate strategic objectives into operational delivery.

Healthcare, hospital operations, or related industry experience is preferred.

Proficiency in project management software and collaboration tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet or Trello, and familiarity with PMBOK, Agile or PRINCE2 methodologies.

Strong project reporting, dashboarding, benefits realisation tracking and postimplementation review capability.

English proficiency: additional South African languages are advantageous.

Ability to travel to hospitals according to the project portfolio and provide occasional support outside normal hours for planned implementations or critical issues.

Personal Attributes

Builds collaborative relationships and influences with impact.

Strong planning, organisation, and monitoring capability.

Resilient and adaptable in a dynamic environment.

Strong communication and facilitation skills.

Effective problem solving and sound decision making.