Portfolio Performance Lead

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Portfolio Performance Lead
- Location: Sydney
- Type: Permanent, full time
- Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

We're looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Portfolio Performance Lead. In this role, you’ll oversee Portfolio Management for AUSPAC’s capital projects portfolio - ensuring governance, performance tracking, and benefits reporting are delivered at an Executive-ready standard.

Your new role

As Portfolio Performance Lead, you will:

- Drive development of executive-level PowerPoint content that has impact and drives insights
- Lead the annual budget prioritisation cycle, including developing options to reduce costs and/or reprioritise the portfolio as needed
- Coordinate, assess and provide feedback on project submissions and initiative status updates to ensure executive-level quality as well as stakeholder alignment
- Track benefits realisation outcomes across the capital projects portfolio
- Take high quality minutes with key actions and decisions from Executive forums and ensure follow-through
- Engage stakeholders to gather insights, validate data, and present outcomes with impact
- Identify and support continuous improvement initiatives within the PMO team - driving efficiency and reducing admin burden wherever possible

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Experience in a PMO, management consulting, or reporting-heavy role, with strong operational focus
- Highly skilled and independent in creating Executive-level presentations using PowerPoint, with a clear narrative and visual polish
- Strong Excel skills and comfortable working with data to support performance and benefits analysis
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills—you’re confident collecting and interpreting information from various teams
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and a self-starter who takes ownership of deliverables
- No people management responsibilities—this role is designed for an individual contributor
- Insurance or financial services industry experience is welcome but not required

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- ‘Hybrid Working’ - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
- Ranked 3rd place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2024 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
- Family First accredited employer since 2021

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at


Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Communication, Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Detail-O