Senior Project Manager Position

Melbourne, Victoria | Hybrid Role

• About the Opportunity:

• Drive consistent planning, management, and delivery of projects across various applications and technology initiatives.

• Projects will focus on automotive OEM customers, requiring strong external stakeholder management, engagement, and communication skills.

• A strong grasp of Agile principles and frameworks like SAFe, Jira, Scrum, and Kanban is necessary.

• The Project Lead will apply these to support iterative project management, encourage adaptive planning, and enable cross-functional teams to respond quickly to changes.

• Transparent communication and collaboration with all internal and external stakeholders are essential.

• Ensure the Program Management team delivers exceptional service.

• Responsibilities include:

• Connect project communications and reporting to strategic business initiatives.

• Align projects to project methodology compliance standards set by the business.

• Negotiate with project vendors to ensure project deliverables are completed, ensuring procurement activities are done in line with approved delegations of authority.

• Document Management – ensure that all project documentation conforms to the Project Management framework standards and is stored and maintained centrally within each project directory.

• Produce project initiation documents for relevant projects, which confirm what is to be achieved, how, when, and within what constraints.

• Produce, agree, and monitor individual project plans alongside the use of Agile practices.

• Identify and obtain any support and advice required for the management, planning, and control of the projects.

• Communicate appropriate acceptance criteria for each project and associated deliverables.

• Manage the production of deliverables to agreed scope, cost, timescale, and quality.

• Manage project spend to budget and validate financial forecasts throughout the project lifecycle.

• Assess each project's progress against respective plans.

• Financial Management – manage approved project budgets and ensure all project costs are tracked and reported. Maintain a forecast of expected costs to completion.

• Risk and Issue Management – manage/report risks and issues associated with the delivery of the projects. Develop a mitigation plan for identified risks and issues.

Requirements and qualifications include:

• Tertiary degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field is essential.

• Certification in Project Management (Agile, Prince2, and/or PMBOK) is essential.

• Over 10 years of proven experience in end-to-end project management.

• Experience with broad range of technology including demonstrated success in planning to business case stage and delivering complex digital or technical projects that bring significant change to the organisation.

• Extensive stakeholder management at multiple levels within internal and external organisations.

• Able to effectively manage discovery, scoping, estimation activities and the development of a delivery schedule during a business case phase.

• Expert in executing project delivery plans, scope, coordinating and managing project resource activities, schedules, budgets, and deliverables.

• Experienced with effective management of project risks, issues, and mitigation activities to ensure project deadlines, scope, and quality measures are achieved.

Our flexible work environment helps balance work and home life.

• Generous discounts on home and car insurance policies and roadside assistance.

• Club Membership and great discounts across our resorts.

• Discounts from corporate partners updated monthly.

We maintain a diverse and inclusive workplace, important for our continued success.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process and/or the role, please let our Talent Acquisition Team know.