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About the Role

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for leading end-to-end delivery of medium to large, moderately to highly complex initiatives, ensuring outcomes are delivered within agreed scope, cost, schedule, quality and risk parameters. The role works across business, technology and vendor teams to drive delivery momentum, manage dependencies, resolve risks and issues, and ensure project outcomes deliver measurable business value. The role ensures delivery is clearly aligned to strategic priorities, business outcomes and agreed OKRs.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of medium to large initiatives across business, technology and vendor teams.
Establish clear delivery plans, milestones, governance, controls and reporting.
Ensure project plans, milestones and trade-off decisions remain aligned to agreed business OKRs and strategic priorities.
Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, issues, dependencies and benefits.
Build strong stakeholder confidence through proactive communication, escalation and decision support.
Lead matrixed teams and vendors to maintain delivery momentum and resolve blockers.
Apply Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery methods as appropriate.
Deliver effective communications tailored for different audiences at all levels.
Ensure implementation, business readiness and transition activities are planned and managed to support successful adoption and operational stability.

Requirements

10+ years’ experience managing complex business and technology projects, ideally within financial services or another highly regulated environment.
Demonstrated experience managing project budgets of $3 million to $10 million.
Demonstrable hands-on experience in end-to-end programme/project delivery, leveraging matrixed and distributed teams of up to 40 resources.
Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams or projects across business, technology and vendor teams.
Strong working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methods.
Tertiary qualifications in business, technology, project management or a related discipline are desirable.
Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, SAFe or equivalent is highly desirable.
Proven ability to lead end-to-end delivery of complex business and technology projects using Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery approaches.
Strong governance, planning and delivery control discipline, including management of RAID, dependencies, milestones, financials and reporting.
Ability to lead matrixed teams, vendors and stakeholders to maintain delivery momentum and resolve blockers.
Strong executive communication skills, including clear status reporting, risk escalation and decision framing.
Demonstrated commercial acumen, with experience managing project budgets, forecasts, vendor costs and benefits realisation.
Ability to create a motivating delivery environment, building a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement across business, technology and vendor teams.
Ability to define, track and communicate benefits realisation, ensuring delivery outcomes translate into measurable business value.
Experience delivering digital applications, websites, customer-facing platforms and process workflow applications, ideally within financial services or another highly regulated environment.
Strong working knowledge of Jira and Confluence, with the ability to use these tools to support delivery planning, backlog and dependency management, traceability, reporting and maintenance of key delivery artefacts.
Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgement in a dynamic delivery environment, navigating ambiguity, adapting to changing priorities and maintaining delivery momentum against agreed outcomes.

Skills

Stakeholder management
Leadership
Agile delivery methods
Waterfall delivery methods
Hybrid delivery methods
Vendor management
Communication
Problem resolution
Jira
Confluence

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Hybrid
Contract

Experience Level

Senior
10+ years

Education Level

Tertiary qualifications in business, technology, project management or a related discipline are desirable.
Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, SAFe or equivalent is highly desirable.

Benefits

Finance & investment assistance and opportunities.
Salary packaging and novated vehicle leases.
Employee Assistance Program – Benestar.
Access to discounted health and wellbeing initiatives through Medibank.
Access to a range of discounted offerings via an extra’s benefits program.
Networking / professional development opportunities and events.

About the Company

We are transforming our business.
We are looking for people with courage, accountability and integrity who inspire the same in others.
If you are comfortable challenging the status-quo and perform at your best in an evolving and complex environment - we need you.