Principal, Delivery Practices

Have a meaningful impact as a **Principal, Delivery Practices**

**YOUR ROLE**

Our Portfolio Execution and Delivery Practice team is looking for a Principal, Delivery Practices who will mature and drive the delivery of value across T&O and Group Programs portfolio. Actively owning the strategy, coaching and supporting our people on the journey, and embedding of fit for purpose modern delivery frameworks and tools. Partnering with a range of teams will be critical to ensuring you are successful in shaping best practices and embedding a high-performance delivery culture.

As part of this role, you will use industry best practices to mature IAG-specific delivery models, frameworks, and approaches. These will help programs within T&O and the Group Programs portfolio be effective and achieve business outcomes more consistently and efficiently. Additionally, you will be providing coaching for leaders and senior stakeholders & guiding them in contemporary delivery practices, including agile methodologies, roles, OKR management and team ways of working.

Some of the key responsibilities that you will perform are:

- Contribute to and tailor T&O/Group frameworks for greater delivery of value, ensuring fit for purpose adoption in our portfolio context.
- Plan and execute interventions to lift portfolio maturity in contemporary delivery practices - at individual, initiative, and portfolio level.
- Design plan and execute the implementation of strategic portfolio tooling and effectively drive value out of this investment in steady-state, including ensuring portfolio WoW are redefined as needed to run portfolio processes out of key tools.
- Drive collaboration and alignment across the IAG Group to ensure consistent approach, ways of working and shared learning communities.
- Provide thought leadership, inspiration, coaching, and challenge to all levels fostering the necessary focus on developing the mindset, methods, and tools essential for business agility and delivery excellence.

**ABOUT YOU**

We are looking for the right person, with a good attitude who will be a solid team fit with the following skills and experiences:

- Experience in setting and leading a delivery strategy, which includes developing ways of working in complex environments, using pragmatic and fit for purpose approaches.
- Proven experience, presence and interpersonal skills that enable you to inspire, motivate and influence at all levels (particularly senior / executive level).
- Coaching, mentoring and communication skills which enable you to uplift the capability of others and influence on a desired outcome.
- Ability to collaborate, contribute, and create in a constantly changing environment.
- Demonstrated experience in coaching agile and lean ways of working, in organisations of varying size and complexity.
- Significant experience of leading delivery framework development, deployment, and embedment within complex corporate environments.
- Jira - extensive experience of enabling organisations to use Jira at scale to support their uplift in delivery practices.
- Coaching (IECL, ORSC or ICF) training or certification (not mandatory, but highly valued)
- Broad understanding of business and technology architecture environment, within and outside of IAG

**This is a 16 months Fixed Term opportunity that is open to people based in anywhere in Australia and New Zealand**

Application closes 2 September 2024

**ABOUT US**

IAG is the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. We’re also a tech and research facility, a hub for climate change experts and a centre of resilience design. We chat over coffee with customers, advocate for them in the corridors of Parliament and back them up in the community when life’s moments hit hardest.

You’ll know our brands - NRMA Insurance, CGU, WFI, ROLLiN’, AMI, NZI, and State Insurance to name a few. Together they turn our IAG purpose of making your world safer into action by helping, supporting ambitions and making insurance accessible.

We celebrate unique viewpoints shaped by life experiences, cultures and passions. We expand careers, genuinely connect with community, lead with a powerful purpose and celebrate what makes you individual.

We’re also guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses and communities. Collaborating on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth, develop resilience and create meaningful change.

We're passionate about social issues, walk the talk on sustainability and strive to do more than standard on things that matter, including women in senior leadership, Indigenous empowerment and creating inclusive environments. We're committed to being a safe and supportive workplace for all our employees. We do this because we’re ready for you.

All this shows up in what we offer:

- Access up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance
- Flexibility through a program called MyFlex - supportin