From the day we opened our doors in 1971, MRI Software has built flexible, game-changing real estate software solutions to improve people’s lives. The only way to carry out that mission is to hire the absolute best employees on earth. People like you.  

Work hard, play hard. Always. Our relentless commitment to client success, our employee resource groups and our promise to empower our teams to reach their full potential are a few examples of what makes MRI Software special.  

And we’re insanely dedicated to creating a work environment that you look forward to every single day. That’s why we invest heavily in our employee engagement, so you enjoy the tech industry’s best perks. Together with the whole Pride, (lion roar for "family") employees, customers, and partners, we’re on a mission to break new ground and lead the real estate industry into a digital-first future. 

We understand the need to provide a flexible working environment partnered with team collaboration and socialisation. Therefore, we operate a hybrid working model with 3 days of working from home per week. This role is based in the Cape Town office.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for driving the execution of projects, from initiating project management to client delivery, and ensuring that these projects deliver on time with high quality, in accordance with stated business and technical objectives. You will play a quarterback role in partnering with all cross-functional leaders and team members to deliver the approaches and work required for an offering to succeed in the market.    

The role will be measured on delivery of on time, high quality solutions that meet documented business and technical objectives. Manage timely deliverables at the milestone level with strong communication, planning, and problem-solving skills.  Success will require strong analytical capability to identify potential problems and propose corrective actions. Candidates must have a ‘can do’ attitude and be comfortable working in fast paced environment where a winning team will be both local and in remote locations.  

Creates, optimizes, and drives structured schedules and milestone project plans across multiple product lines  

Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based on changing data or conditions  

Assists in planning and ensuring that a project tracks to resources, schedule, and budget constraints  

Tracks open issues and effectively negotiate to impact decisions and trade-offs and to guide issues within internal and external groups to resolution   

Holds program team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and deliverables  

Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans and communicates in a timely manner to stakeholders and senior management     

Identifies project or product dependencies and tracks and reports on their progress if required for go live   

Proposes workable solutions to problems by analyzing business and technical trade-offs among alternatives, and uses objective judgment and influence to formulate and drive consensus on recommendations  

Frames communication and discussions for the intended audience, with appropriate context and line of sight  

Ensures that the appropriate documents exist and are broadly communicated to drive shared vision among the program teams    

Creates clearly understandable & actionable success criteria, objectives, and requirements and communicates them to the team  

Conducts and effectively facilitates project team meetings to update status, and identify and resolve issues    

Achieves quality results through strong team interaction, effective cross-team collaboration and taking ownership of the success of the initiative.    

REQUIREMENTS  

Personal and Business Skills   

Strong planning acumen and self starter that clearly prioritizes against delivery goals  

Communication strengths to anticipate needs and ensure teams have the information they need to be effective, presents effectively to executives and cross-functional leaders  

Analytic & strategic thinking based on deriving insights from disparate pieces of information and translating those insights into action and mitigation plans    

Solid decision making skills despite ambiguous data and situations.  Considers upstream and downstream operational impacts as decision inputs.  Balances long-term vs. short-term objectives  

Experience  

3-5 years working knowledge of and experience with project/program management  

Experience working with software development or software migration projects a plus  

Experience leading a team or directly supervising them  

Detail-oriented and extremely organized, with proven ability to establish priorities and achieve results with very strong communication skills  

Bachelors degree or equivalent program/project management experience   

PMP Certification is a plus  

Educational Requirements 

BA/BS in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related area, or equivalent program/project management experience  

PMP a plus 

Working hours:

8:30/9 am - 5 pm/5:30 pm EST

We’re obsessed with making this the best job you’ve ever had! 

We want our teams to love working here, so we’ve created some incredible perks for you to enjoy: 

We want our staff to love working here, and so we’ve created a few unique perks such as office breakfasts, quarterly lunches and virtual social events. Additionally, we value your input in your employee experience and have employee-led groups such as our DEI committee, employee resource groups such as Women and Allies, and our Pride Event Group 

Have confidence in your health with our offered Medical Aid Scheme.  

Invest in our competitive Personal Pension plan and help set you up for your future. 

Big on family? So are we! Here at MRI Software we recognise that your family is important, and being able to spend quality time with your family as it grows is a wonderful experience. Therefore, the MRI Software Parental Leave benefit is designed to give you the opportunity to spend time with your new arrival(s).  

Enjoy a fantastic work-life balance with 25 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays, in addition to a bank of 15 hours of "Flex Time Off" to be used whenever and however you choose!

Further your professional development with our Tuition Reimbursement Schemes  

Enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere in the world for two weeks out of the year!  

MRI continues to strive to amaze as a global industry leader in real estate software. Whether you are joining as a new pride member or bringing your expertise back, your talent is important to maintaining MRI’s high client experience standard and continuing our growth in the PropTech space.  

Amazing growth takes amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge? 

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you! 

As a global company, we believe diversity brings benefits for our people, customers and clients. This is why MRI Software is committed to being an inclusive employer, regardless of your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, military and veteran status. 

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are values that are critical to our success; come and see for yourself.