Senior Project Manager - Cape Town ( contract immediate start essential)

We are urgently looking for a Senior Project Manager on a contract basis, based in Cape Town. This short-term role (3 to 6 months) requires someone who can step in immediately, be on site, and take ownership of complex, customer-facing projects.

Alacrity, a division of Saratoga, is partnering with Worldwide Chain Stores to find a skilled professional ready to make an immediate impact.

As the Senior Project Manager you will lead complex, high-value, multi-stream implementations for IT and Supply Chain global enterprise clients. This role owns delivery, executive stakeholder alignment, commercial outcomes, and governance across large or business critical projects.

You will act as a trusted advisor to client leadership, steering committees, and internal executives while ensuring projects deliver measurable business value.

• Lead complex, multi-workstream software implementations from initiation through go live and transition to support.
• Own delivery for large or business critical projects.
• Direct globally distributed technical and consulting teams.
• Ensure projects meet scope, timeline, quality, and financial targets.

• Engage with C suite and executive sponsors on both client and internal sides.
• Lead steering committee meetings and executive governance forums.
• Translate technical delivery risks into strategic business language.

• Own financial performance including forecasting, margin protection, and revenue realization.
• Identify expansion or upsell opportunities during project lifecycle.
• Draft Statements of Work and change requests.

• Anticipate enterprise-level delivery risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Escalate critical issues proactively and manage cross-programme dependencies.
• Ensure delivery governance frameworks, reporting standards, and KPIs are followed.

• Mentor Project Managers and delivery teams.
• Contribute to internal continuous improvement and delivery best practices.
• Support resource planning across multiple projects.
• Support go lives which can involve evening / weekend work as required.
• Perform any other reasonable duties as required by management.

• A Bachelor's Degree in Business, IT or a related discipline with strong academic results.
• Formal certification (PMP, PMQ, PRINCE2, MSP, or equivalent).

• 7+ years project/programme management experience in enterprise software or SaaS environments.
• Demonstrated delivery of large-scale, complex implementations across multiple regions.
• Proven experience managing executive stakeholders and steering committees.
• Strong commercial acumen and budget ownership.
• Strong understanding of structured delivery frameworks and Agile/hybrid methodologies.

• Supply chain, warehouse management, or logistics system experience.
• Experience working across multiple time zones and cultures.

• Strategic thinker with strong business judgement.
• Influential communicator with executive presence.
• Commercially driven and outcome focused.
• Calm decision maker under pressure.
• High emotional intelligence and negotiation skill.

Up to 5% - 10% international travel depending on programme requirements.

Alacrity, a division of Saratoga, acts as a South Africa based Employer of Record for its international clients. The successful applicant will be employed by Alacrity but will be fully integrated into and will have direct reporting links into WCS. Get to know who we are and what we do at .

Worldwide Chain Stores delivers enterprise grade software platforms for warehouse, order, and asset management used by global retail and supply chain organisations. Their solutions are mission critical to client operations and deployed internationally. WCS is part of the Volaris Group, a global acquirer of vertical market software businesses focused on long term growth and operational excellence.