Program Director

20 hours ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia XPT Software Full time
Overview

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Responsibilities
  • Ability to understand complex program challenges and interdependencies
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and drive effective, sometimes difficult working sessions to facilitate decision-making, and follow-through actions to successful implementation
  • Concise, impactful written and verbal communication
  • Experienced Program or Portfolio Director with a strong track record delivering a portfolio of complex digital programs
  • Experience in major telecommunications technology rollout programs, preferably within the energy sector
  • The ideal candidate will have experience with rolling out MPLS-TP in a large scale, and if not, at the minimum a strong understanding of the MPLS-TP technology
  • Demonstrated capability managing projects from concept to implementation and benefits realisation, including portfolio experience in budgeting, resource planning, risk management, group facilitation, and reporting
  • Skilled at balancing technical solution oversight, change impacts, and business stakeholder alignment while actively resolving delivery challenges and ensuring program momentum
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with proven ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior executives, including clear, concise decision-making support and presentation skills
  • Commercially focused, with experience managing vendors and delivery partners, ensuring accountability for outcomes, strong cost control, and alignment with expected benefits
  • A relevant tertiary qualification and formal project or program management certifications is desirable (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP)


Your key responsibilities
  • Set-up program management discipline, including tracking, reporting, risk and issue escalation
  • Develop and align approach for governance, key forums, audience, agendas, rhythms to ensure continuous alignment with Digital Leadership, Lines of Business delivery team and client
  • Develop strong documentation around actions-taking and follow-ups, and recording key decisions made in said key forums
  • Clearly define and align roles and responsibilities of the program manager and individual Loop PMs
  • Set-up and govern central procurement process and oversight
  • Central oversight of Communications team timesheet
  • Collaboratively work with business stakeholders and PMs to ensure appropriate escalation of project-specific issues and misalignments, and timely insights for decision-making
  • Develop a deep understanding of Loop project interdependencies, and support understanding across teams
  • Support team to define and endorse any revisions of scope, timing and budget for Loop projects
  • Develop change management plan, including business communications, documentation and training for field teams
  • Strong understanding of technology implications and Communications roadmap and collaborative future-planning of possible next technology iterations


Seniority level
  • Mid-Senior level


Employment type
  • Full-time


Job function
  • Information Technology


Industries
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
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