The Executive Project Manager is responsible for leading the Project Management: Customer Projects Department and ensuring the successful execution of Rheinmetall Denel Munitions' customer project portfolio from contract handover through to final delivery. The role provides leadership, direction, governance, and project management expertise to a team of Project Managers, ensuring that projects are effectively planned, executed, monitored, and controlled in accordance with contractual commitments, customer requirements, technical specifications, quality standards, and revenue objectives. The incumbent is accountable for establishing and maintaining project management systems, methodologies, tools, governance frameworks, and reporting processes that drive execution excellence, proactively managing portfolio risks and recovery actions, overseeing project performance and backlog conversion, and ensuring the successful delivery of customer projects in support of the company's strategic, operational, and financial objectives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a team of Project Managers to ensure the successful execution of customer projects and the achievement of company objectives.
- Drive planning excellence, execution discipline, risk management, accountability, and continuous improvement across the customer project portfolio.
- Ensure projects are planned, executed, and delivered in accordance with contractual commitments, customer requirements, technical specifications, quality standards, budget constraints, and revenue objectives.
- Drive the conversion of the customer project backlog into successfully delivered projects, supporting the achievement of quarterly and annual revenue targets.
- Monitor portfolio performance, delivery schedules and revenue forecasts, ensuring the timely identification, escalation, and management of risks, issues, constraints, and opportunities.
- Provide executive leadership and hands-on intervention on projects experiencing significant delivery, customer, technical, operational, commercial, or contractual challenges to drive resolution and recovery.
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional task teams to resolve critical project issues, remove execution barriers, accelerate decision-making, and protect customer commitments and revenue performance.
- Directly manage strategically important, high-value, high-risk, or complex customer projects where executive project management expertise, leadership, and stakeholder engagement are required.
- Establish, maintain, and continuously improve project management systems, tools, methodologies, governance frameworks, and performance management processes to support consistent and effective project execution.
- Ensure accurate and timely portfolio reporting and provide executive management with clear visibility of project performance, revenue achievement, forecast accuracy, delivery commitments, and key project risks.
