Senior Project Manager, Johannesburg

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Business Sweden Full time

**Do you thrive in dynamic environments, solving complex problems, delivering exceptional client** **service and driving results? Do you have a strong drive for delivering value to clients within market expansion and growth in a highly international context? Would you like to work in the intersection of business and diplomacy, interacting with executives and senior politicians? As a team we advise both Large
- & Mid-sized companies as well as Start-ups on how to capture the growth opportunities in Southern Africa.**We are now looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our engaged team in South Africa.**_ _**

Sweden's trade future is increasingly tied to MEA (Middle East & Africa), a region that represent some of the world’s fastest growing economies. There is a wealth of opportunities in particularly the green transition, where Swedish expertise is highly sought-after. The average growth in the region is more than three percent, with several areas still dependent on foreign aid. That is why this region in many aspects will be in the center of policy development bringing aid and development measures closer to trade promotion. Business Sweden has been present in South Africa since 1993 and our team offers strategic advice and operational support that helps Swedish companies to expand and grow their business in the Southern African region.

As a Senior Project Manager at Business Sweden, you interact with a wide range of stakeholders within client organizations as well as governmental agencies, academia, and Business Sweden colleagues around the world.

The role includes both strategic, tactic and operational responsibilities such as:

- Drive sales, lead teams and work closely with our clients in South Africa and broader Southern African region
- Building strong client relationships, design and drive analytical work, secure that insights and recommendations are well underpinned and packaged
- Scoping and selling projects and services to our clients
- Proactively find new business opportunities, drive insight selling in the region and having an active role in developing our value propositions.
- Liaising with Swedish public agencies and ministries including SIDA and local embassies in projects related to trade and development corporation.
- Work closely with supporting Swedish companies in collaborating with multilateral development banks (World Bank, African Development Bank, EIB and EBRD).

The position will require regular travels to meet with customers and public stakeholders in Southern Africa, such as public decision-makers and agency directors, in promoting Swedish solutions for mega-deals and public procurements. You will also be part of strategic engagements aiming at developing and promoting high-level trade relations between Sweden and key markets in the region.

You will report to the Trade Commissioner for South Africa and the role is based in Johannesburg.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

**Core competencies and collaborative skills**
- Demonstrate commitment, honesty, and accountability in tasks.
- Provide support and take ownership to ensure high quality delivery on time.
- Consulting skill set: hypothesis-led problem solving, structuring, and communicating complex ideas, strategic thinking.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, ability to work proactively and independently with relevant goals and tasks towards growing the region.
- Result
- and customer-oriented with a strategic mind-set and business acumen.
- Collaborate effectively to achieve good results with a positive can-do attitude.
- Contribute to team spirit and transparent communication.
- Easily adapts to new ways of working and circumstances.
- Voice your own ideas and share opinions. Show appreciation for different perspectives.

**Formal requirements**
- Master of science in Business Administration or Engineering or equivalent
- Experience as Management Consultant from Strategy or Management firms
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience from a consultancy firm or equivalent.
- We value experience from Business Sweden and Team Sweden where you have preferably led both promotion activities as well as advisory projects.
- You have experience of leading and coaching consultant teams and prior experience from an international environment, proven track record of successfully leading multinational project teams and working cross-border.
- Proven track record in sales and the ability to independently drive client dialogues, and take on full sales cycle responsibility, is a must.
- A high level of proficiency in both written and spoken English is a requirement.
- Intermediate proficiency (B1) of Portuguese and/or French is meriting.
- Experience from relevant industries like mining and/or energy and transport.

**Application**

GREAT PLACE TO WORK

Global exchanges and career opportunities

Exclusive focus on our client’s growth agenda

Extensive responsibility

Diversified teams with world class colleagues

Training academy for continuous development

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