Senior Leader of Strategic Initiatives

3 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia beBeeDelivery Full time
Job Description

A rare opportunity to take on a high-impact, greenfield role and establish an organization-wide delivery framework from the ground up. As Senior Manager, Delivery, you will partner with senior leadership, business units across Technology, Operations, Product, Legal, Risk & Compliance, and Sales & Marketing to bring clarity, prioritization, and discipline to how initiatives are delivered.

You will be joining a business with a strong strategy and ambitious priorities, at a time where there is a real opportunity to strengthen and mature how delivery happens. The foundations are in place, but there is scope to embed consistency, discipline, and scalability across initiatives, making this a role where you can create immediate impact and lasting value.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and own the organization-wide delivery framework, ensuring strategic initiatives are delivered and ongoing improvements are driven in close collaboration with senior leadership.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Technology, Operations, Product, Risk, and Commercial teams to align priorities and drive end-to-end delivery.
  • Manage prioritization forums and governance structures, ensuring clear decisions, accountability, and value realization.
  • Oversee the successful scoping, resourcing, and execution of programs and projects across the business.
  • Maintain a central view of initiatives, delivery risks, interdependencies, and resource capacity.
  • Lead escalation and resolution of risks and blockers, enabling course correction when needed.
  • Build capability in delivery practices, working closely with your Business Analyst (direct report) and scaling the team over time.
  • Embed a collaborative, pragmatic, and outcomes-driven culture that improves how the business plans, prioritizes, and executes.
Requirements

Must-Haves:

  • 7+ years' experience in program/project delivery, with a track record leading cross-functional initiatives across strategy, technology, operations, and commercial teams.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with senior executives while building trust at all levels of the business.
  • Experience managing delivery portfolios, aligning strategic priorities with operational execution, and making trade-offs for maximum business impact.
  • Deep understanding of delivery governance, risk management, dependencies, and resource/capacity planning.
  • Practical, pragmatic approach to program management, confident in agile, waterfall, or hybrid methods, but not rigidly tied to one framework.
  • Strong commercial acumen and risk awareness, able to balance business value with constraints.
  • Background in financial services (essential), specifically asset finance, fleet management, or novated leasing (highly desirable).
  • Hands-on experience working across both large, complex organizations and smaller, more agile environments, comfortable rolling up your sleeves when needed, while also navigating enterprise-level governance and stakeholder forums.
  • Project/program management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2) and exposure to change and continuous improvement frameworks (e.g. Lean Six Sigma, Prosci/ADKAR) highly regarded.
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