Agile Portfolio Manager

**Description**:
About CES

We believe there is a better way to recycle that positively impacts individuals, communities and the environment.

Our mission is to increase recycling rates, rid the world of drink container litter, and empower community participation in an accredited circular economy.

We provide services and technology to enable the circular lifecycle of a drink container, from purchase to collection, through to recycling and remanufacturing. Our services include IT technology, payments, brand experience, customer support, and materials trading.

Container Exchange Services (CES) is a joint venture between Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Lion that was established to provide scalable and sustainable solutions for Container Deposit Schemes (CDS) in Australia and around the World. We power one of Australia’s largest recycling programs: Containers for Change.

As an organization, we are nearing 5 years of operation having grown rapidly in revenue and people. The business is undergoing massive growth through our existing recycling schemes and expanding into new states.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Agile Portfolio Manager to continue the evolution of our IT Agile Operating Model. As a senior leader within the technology organization, in this role you will lead the operations and continual improvement of the Agile Portfolio Office (APO) and Agile Delivery Practices.

You will influence and interact with multiple stakeholders across Executive, Product, Engineering, Finance teams and Clients, removing friction and providing control, clarity, training and support on the delivery model tools and processes.

You will lead the APO team to support IT delivery of client and CES initiatives, and be an active contributor to IT strategy as part of the IT leadership team.

This role would be ideal for an Agile Portfolio Manager with experience in Agile transformation and team leadership across both corporate and scale-up environments, who is looking for a role that offers purpose and long term career opportunities in IT leadership.

You’ll be based at our offices in North Sydney, with the option to work from home 2 days per week; some travel to client sites may be required from time to time.

Why work with us?
- You will have a real opportunity to shape and improve our Agile practices and directly impact our IT strategy and business outcomes
- We are an IT-led organisation, with a high performing team working for purpose - what we do positively impacts communities and the environment
- We work flexibly at CES with a hybrid office model
- We pay above market salaries and reward our team; we have a great culture and amazing people.
- Our business is growing, so there are lots of development and career opportunities

**Key responsibilities**:
Long-term portfolio planning and resourcing to meet strategic CES and customer objectives
Mid-term initiative planning to ensure the organisation is identifying major dependencies, constraints, or timeline changes early
Evolution and embedding of Agile ways of working including the creation of new processes, behaviours and reporting to support change where required
Ownership of regular portfolio reviews (delivery metrics and RAID) with CES Executives
Short-term cross-squad program planning and control, including facilitating Program Increment Planning, financials, reporting, RAID management, and project close-out, project PIR
Ownership of the IT delivery model (tools, metrics, governance, process and artifacts) and ensuring and enabling compliance within CES IT through training and support.
Partnering with Finance to manage IT delivery plans, budgets, and project financials, tracking and reporting on client budgets and administering the IT resource planning solution.
Development and implementation of reports and artefacts for clients, internal stakeholders and squads
Leading and developing your team, including annual and quarterly team planning
Actively contributing to IT Leadership Team and IT strategic planning

**Skills and Experiences**:
**About You**:
You have 5+ years’ experience leading Waterfall and Agile PMO or Programs, including governance and partnering with multiple internal stakeholders
You have worked in programs with heavy custom software development and product management, so you know the lingo, risks and way of working - technical IT background is an advantage but not required.
You are well versed in Agile Program management, with experience in Big Room Planning or PI planning
You have been through an Agile Transformation initiative, and ideally have experience within both corporate and scale-up environments
You have a high attention to detail as well as the ability to understand abstract concepts
You are comfortable with ambiguity and complex inter-dependencies
You know how to balance control/compliance with helping others thrive
Ideally, you have a track record of success in client or customer facing IT delivery roles eg consu