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Manager Projects & Delivery

Betway Africa
3 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Marketing

Kick-start your career in the online gaming world and experience the very latest in technology and innovation.

What you’ll do

You’ll take ownership of work that gives us our competitive edge, including:

  • Own delivery of cross-functional business projects from initiation through to completion
  • Translate business priorities into clear delivery plans, milestones, and outcomes
  • Track progress, manage dependencies, and ensure delivery commitments are met
  • Maintain accountability for delivery quality and timelines
  • Provide leadership with visibility across the delivery portfolio
  • Balance demand, capacity, and sequencing across teams and initiatives
  • Identify and manage risks and trade-offs early, providing clear recommendations
  • Ensure initiatives align with strategic priorities and engineering capacity
  • Act as the central coordination point between Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders
  • Facilitate planning sessions, stand-ups, checkpoints, and delivery forums
  • Ensure roles, responsibilities, and expectations are clearly defined and understood
  • Establish and maintain delivery best practices across initiatives
  • Apply delivery methodologies and frameworks such as Agile and Lean approaches
  • Ensure initiatives deliver measurable value and improve organisational focus
  • Drive stakeholder alignment and decision-making for effective delivery outcomes
  • Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly to senior stakeholders
  • Manage expectations through transparent, evidence-based reporting
  • Lead post-delivery reviews and embed learnings into future initiatives
  • Drive continuous improvement across delivery practices and processes
  • Champion prioritisation and focus across the organisation
  • Lead, mentor, and develop the Projects & Delivery team
  • Build scalable team structures aligned to growth and complexity
  • Foster a culture of ownership and data-driven decision-making
  • Translate company strategy into delivery frameworks, analytics, and KPIs

This list covers your core responsibilities – with plenty of room to stretch, explore and take on new challenges as we grow.

What you’ll bring

You’re someone who brings:

  • Proven experience in project and delivery roles within product-led or digital environments
  • Strong background in product delivery with project management expertise
  • Experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives
  • Demonstrated team leadership or people management experience
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to align delivery execution to broader business strategy and product roadmaps
  • Excellent planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills
  • Ability to manage multiple initiatives in high-pressure environments
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience with delivery methodologies and frameworks (Agile, Lean, etc.)
  • Strong commercial judgement and value-driven mindset
  • Proactive, structured, and outcome-focused approach


Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve

It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:

  • Experience in betting, gaming, or regulated industries
  • Exposure to scaling delivery functions in product-led organisations
  • Familiarity with delivery tracking, reporting, and analytics tools
  • Understanding of engineering workflows and product development lifecycles
  • Experience driving process improvement or delivery transformation initiatives


*Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.

*Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.
 

This position requires trust and honesty it has access to customers financial details - therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore, a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role, and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner, and solely for the purposes of verification.


Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.

The perfect place to work, play and grow!