{"id":2091357,"url":"https://alion.io/job/omnia-programme-manager","title":"Programme Manager","company":{"id":2448693,"name":"Omnia","domain":"omnia.co.za","url":"https://alion.io/company/omnia-co-za","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Manatal","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["South Africa"],"countries":["ZA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":21000,"max_usd":56000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":55},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-08T14:42:41Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-11T17:19:23Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"PROGRAMME MANAGER\nLocation: Fourways, Gauteng, South Africa\nBusiness Unit: BME | Strategy Portfolio Management Office\nReports To: Head Of Strategy Execution and BMO\nContract Type: Permanent/ FTC\nSubmission Closing Date: 14 October 2026\nJoin BME and shape the future of mining.\nBME, a division of Omnia Holdings, is a leading global provider of blasting and mining solutions, partnering with customers to improve safety, productivity and sustainability across the mining value chain. Combining advanced blasting technology, digital innovation, explosives and technical expertise, we help mining operations solve complex challenges, optimise performance and unlock value. From open-pit mines to underground operations, our solutions support responsible, efficient mining and enable the critical resources needed to power modern economies.\nAs part of Omnia Holdings Limited (JSE: OMN), you'll join a global, diversified business operating across the agriculture, mining and chemicals sectors. With operations in 23 countries, customers in more than 40 countries, over 70 distribution centres, and approximately 3,800 employees worldwide, Omnia develops innovative products, technologies and services that support food security, responsible mining and sustainable industrial development. Through science, innovation and collaboration, we help customers use resources more efficiently, solve complex operational challenges and create lasting value for a changing world.\nAt Omnia, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside industry experts, contribute to meaningful challenges, and grow your career in a purpose-led organisation committed to innovation, learning and sustainable impact.\nInnovating to enhance life, together creating a greener future.\nROLE IMPACT\nThe Programme Manager is accountable for translating BME strategic priorities into coordinated programmes of change that deliver measurable, sustainable business outcomes. The role provides end-to-end leadership across multiple interdependent projects and workstreams, aligning sponsors, business owners, functional leaders and delivery teams around a common programme vision, roadmap, investment case and benefits profile.\nThe role exists to create momentum, clarity, and ownership where it does not naturally exist, ensuring projects move from intent to execution and deliver tangible outcomes.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nProgramme Strategy, Integration and Delivery\nEstablish and maintain the programme vision, integrated roadmap, target outcomes and delivery architecture across multiple related projects/initiatives and workstreams.\nThese projects typically operate in environments where:\nAccountability is diffused or unclear.\nTeams are delivery-capable but not naturally goal-driven.\nStrong functional leadership is inconsistent or absent.\nProgress depends on influence, structure, and follow-through rather than authority.\nTranslate strategic priorities into a governed programme with clear outcomes, dependencies, decision gates, accountabilities and success measures.\nOwn the integrated programme plan and make recommendations on sequencing, trade-offs, scope boundaries, investment priorities and corrective action.\nEnsure that individual projects remain aligned to the programme business case and collectively deliver the intended strategic outcomes.\nIntervene across workstreams where performance, dependencies or resource constraints threaten overall programme success.\nWorking in Low-Ownership Environments\nOperate effectively in teams that are not naturally goal-orientated or delivery-driven.\nProactively create clarity around roles, expectations, and ownership without relying on positional authority.\nIdentify gaps in accountability and close them through facilitation, structure, and persistence.\nCoach and support team members to move from passive participation to active ownership.\nMaintain progress and delivery discipline even when teams lack strong internal leadership.\nExecutive Stakeholder, Sponsorship and Governance Management\nEstablish and lead programme governance forums, ensuring that sponsors and executive stakeholders receive decision-ready information on progress, strategic alignment, investment, benefits, risk and organisational impact.\nBuild alignment across senior stakeholders with competing priorities and secure timely decisions on programme direction, funding, scope and corrective action.\nEscalate material issues with clear options, implications and recommendations.\nMaintain transparent accountability for executive decisions and ensure that agreed actions are implemented across all workstreams.\nCross-Functional & Cross-Team Leadership\nLead and integrate delivery across multiple functions, business units, regions, projects and specialist teams with differing priorities, operating models and incentives.\nEstablish clear interfaces, decision rights and accountability across workstreams.\nResolve cross-project dependencies and conflicts that cannot be addressed within individual project structures.\nMobilise senior leaders and subject-matter experts around shared programme outcomes, while maintaining alignment between strategic intent and operational execution.\nDelivery Discipline & Continuous Improvement\nIntroduce fit-for-purpose delivery practices appropriate to the scale and complexity of each project.\nEnsure lessons learned are captured and applied to future work.\nMaintain a strong bias toward action, progress, and outcomes over process for its own sake.\nProgramme Investment, Financial and Resource Management\nDevelop and maintain the programme business case, integrated budget and investment profile across the full delivery horizon.\nRecommend the allocation and reallocation of funding and scarce resources across projects based on strategic value, risk, delivery performance and benefit contribution.\nMonitor aggregate programme expenditure, forecasts, commitments and financial exposure, and initiate corrective action where tolerances are threatened.\nPartner with Finance, Procurement and functional leaders to ensure commercial discipline, appropriate contracting and sustainable resource capacity across the programme.\nBenefits Realisation and Value Assurance\nOwn the programme benefits framework from definition and baseline through to transition, measurement and sustained realisation.\nAgree benefit owners, measures, targets and review periods with sponsors and business leaders.\nChallenge projects that deliver outputs without a credible path to business value, and recommend changes to scope, sequencing or investment where expected benefits are no longer achievable.\nEnsure that benefits, disbenefits and strategic value are reported alongside cost, schedule and risk.\nOrganisational Change and Adoption\nIntegrate change management into programme design and delivery so that new processes, technologies, structures and ways of working are adopted and sustained.\nAssess organisational readiness and cumulative change impact across affected functions and regions.\nAlign communication, leadership sponsorship, capability building, transition and adoption plans across workstreams.\nHold business owners accountable for embedding change and achieving the targeted operational outcomes after implementation.\nMINIMUM REQUIREMENTS\nQualifications\nRelevant postgraduate or advanced tertiary qualification in Business, Engineering, Technology, Finance or a related discipline, Equivalent senior-level programme experience may be considered where it provides clear evidence of the required commercial, strategic and leadership capability.\nDemonstrated practical experience will be weighted more heavily than certifications\nCertifications\nRecognised programme-management certification such as MSP, PgMP or an equivalent programme leadership credential is advantageous.\nA recognised project-management certification such as PMP or PRINCE2, together with demonstrated experience applying portfolio, programme governance, benefits realisation and organisational change practices, is also relevant.\nExperience\nDemonstrated experience in strategy execution, organisational transformation or complex multi-year programme delivery comprising multiple interdependent projects or workstreams in ambiguous organisational environments\nproven record of translating strategy into executable roadmaps, governing significant investment, resolving cross-functional dependencies and delivering measurable business benefits. \nExperience should include regular engagement with executive sponsors and governance forums, leadership of senior cross-functional teams without direct authority, and accountability for programme-level risk, change, benefits and commercial outcomes.\nExtensive experience [ managing projects in complex, ambiguous organisational environments.\nAdvantageous\nExperience in modern digital or technology-enabled transformation initiatives\nProcess improvement or operational change projects\nWorking alongside IT, data, or digital teams in delivery environments\nUnderstanding of maintenance, asset management processes within the mining sector.\nKey Competencies\nProven ability to deliver where teams lack maturity in ownership, accountability, or goal orientation\nStrong influencing skills, with the ability to lead without formal authority\nHigh emotional intelligence and resilience when dealing with resistance, inertia, or ambiguity\nPractical, hands-on delivery capability rather than reliance on formal methodologies alone\nConfidence working across multiple functions where leadership strength varies significantly\nSkills\nStrategic translation and integrated programme design\nProgramme business cases and investment governance\nBenefits mapping, ownership and realisation\nExecutive governance and decision facilitation\nIntegrated planning across multiple projects and workstreams\nFinancial forecasting and 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At Omnia, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where every individual is valued, respected and empowered to contribute. We believe that diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds strengthen our ability to innovate, solve complex challenges and create sustainable value. We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates who share our commitment to excellence, collaboration and making a positive impact.\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST\nThank you for considering a career with Omnia. We appreciate the time and effort invested in your application. Our Talent Acquisition team carefully reviews every application received. While only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, we encourage you to keep exploring future opportunities within the Omnia Group as we continue to grow our teams across agriculture, mining and chemicals. 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