Project Manager Expert

3 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Xero Full time
About Xero

Xero is a renowned accounting and bookkeeping platform that empowers small businesses to grow and thrive.

We strive to make life better for our customers, their advisors, and communities worldwide. Our purpose drives every aspect of our operations, from supporting our people to delivering exceptional tools, information, and connections.

Our Team

The Programs, Projects, and Portfolio group plays a vital role in ensuring Xero operates as a world-class business, transforming it into a modern delivery organisation. We implement best-in-class portfolio, programme, project, and delivery practices to enhance customer intimacy, accelerate value delivery, and prioritise strategic objectives.

About the Role

This Senior Project Manager position involves leading significant technical cross-functional projects, requiring strong stakeholder management and experience with complex problem-solving.

As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for planning, scoping, and scheduling activities to deliver high-quality projects on time, within budget, and to desired scope. You will select and apply suitable methodologies, frameworks, and processes to ensure innovative and efficient project delivery.

This project focuses on delivering a specific piece of work - the Spam project - which comprises three main streams: discovering spam-related risks and developing a roadmap, analysing monitoring and blocking tools, and reviewing AI solutions to detect spam.

Responsibilities
    • Lead project planning, implementation, and delivery, ensuring timely completion, adherence to budget, and desired quality and scope.
    • Facilitate scope definition, goals, and deliverables with stakeholders.
    • Develop tailored project management plans and approaches (agile, iterative, and waterfall).
    • Collaborate with Project Leads to assemble project teams from internal and external resource pools as needed.
    • Report project progress, risks, and issues at regular intervals.
    • Contribute to team growth and improvement, providing coaching and development for junior members and demonstrating leadership behaviour.
    • Develop or contribute practices, templates, and artefacts to shared libraries to enhance project practice.
    • Participate in ongoing process and practice improvement initiatives to support better ways of working.
    • Model world-class delivery standards, respectfully challenging when necessary.
    • Embody project ownership, driving change delivery to a high standard.
    • Manage concurrent pieces of work, prioritising efforts according to organisational priorities in consultation with the GM Projects/Project Leads.
    • Maintain strong relationships and communication with all Xero teams.
    • Balanced perspective through building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
    • Work across the spectrum of project delivery activity, owning outcomes.
    • Closely collaborate with stakeholders to transition project deliverables into Business As Usual (BAU).
    • Develop repeatable processes to increase efficiency in project delivery.
    • Efficient escalation of complex risks or issues.
Requirements
    • 6+ years of experience leading and delivering multiple projects.
    • Experience working with security-related projects.
    • Demonstrated experience leading complex projects and cross-functional teams to achieve strategic outcomes.
    • Demonstrated experience maintaining and improving project financial processes, including managing and tracking budgets.
    • Project management certification (PMI, PRINCE 2, AgilePM, or similar) is an advantage.
    • Relevant infrastructure, data, application development, business process, business change, or GTM subject matter expertise/demonstrated experience.
    • Agile/iterative and waterfall approaches.
    • Web/online/cloud/SaaS experience.
    • Understanding of business processes, structures, and organisations.
    • Demonstrated experience managing multiple stakeholders and delivery teams.
    • Demonstrated vendor management.
    • Strong communication and analytical skills.
    • Strong commercial acumen.
    • Experience working with senior leaders, demonstrated experience preparing/reporting to C-level.
What Success Looks Like
    • Clear project scope, goals, and delivery plan.
    • Project teams have a clear understanding of project scope and definition.
    • Modelling project management best practices and behaviour.
    • Consistently displaying leadership behaviour within the team and business.
    • Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships across the business.
    • Successfully managing strategically important projects.
    • Projects delivered on time, within budget, and to expected quality.
    • Contribution and participation in company values, culture, and wider team.
    • Exceptional stakeholder feedback.
Why Choose Xero?

We offer generous paid leave, dedicated wellbeing leave, health insurance, life insurance, income protection, wellbeing programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human values.

Estimate Salary: $120,000 - $150,000 per annum.

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