Project Coordinator – Retail

Project Coordinator – Online | Contract | 12 Months | Cape Town (Hybrid)

About the Role

A leading South African retailer is running a large-scale Composable Commerce Re-Platforming Programme and needs a Project Coordinator to keep it operating smoothly. This role sits directly behind the Online Programme Manager – your job is to ensure that plans, risks, reporting, and governance are always current and accurate so that leadership focus stays on decisions, not data-gathering.

This is a coordination and support role, not a delivery-accountable one. You won’t own squad outcomes, but you will own the operating rhythm that makes delivery possible.

Due to the high volume of applications expected, candidates who have not received feedback within two weeks of applying should consider their application unsuccessful.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the programme plan, milestone tracker, and cross-squad dependency map – flagging slippage and conflicts early
• Own the RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) – logging, chasing owners, and preparing for steering and Exco review
• Prepare agendas, minutes, and action logs for governance forums (steering committee, architecture review, cross-functional sync) and track actions to closure
• Support budget and Capex tracking, maintaining spend-to-plan views and flagging variances
• Manage the programme document repository (Confluence/SharePoint) – keeping specs, decisions, and architecture artefacts current and correctly versioned
• Coordinate the programme planning cadence: scheduling, pre-reads, consolidating inputs, capturing outputs
• Coordinate release-readiness activities across release trains with Delivery Managers
• Act as first point of contact for cross-functional coordination, triaging and routing where Programme Manager involvement isn’t required

Requirements

• 2-4 years in a project/programme coordination, PMO, or delivery support role – ideally within a digital, e-commerce, or technology programme
• Relevant qualification in project management
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint
• Working familiarity with Agile/SAFe and traditional project delivery methodologies
• Strong risk judgement – knows the difference between noise and an escalation
• Financial and vendor management exposure
• Confident stakeholder communicator across multiple levels

Contract Details

• Duration: 12 months
• Location: Cape Town – in office Monday to Thursday, remote Friday
• Rate: Market-related

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