Senior Project Manager

About Us
Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia's largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group's main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

Job Description
The
Senior IT Project Manager
will lead and manage a range of projects with significant complexity, size inside various parts of the project lifecycle. The Senior IT Project Manager may be allocated a number of projects concurrently also depending on the input required and the structure of the project/program of work.
In this role, you will oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of complex Technology and Digital/Customer projects, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure timely, within-scope, and budget-compliant completion. Your leadership and expertise will be pivotal in driving project success and achieving our strategic objectives. You will cultivate and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, essential for coordinating all project aspects across various streams, milestones, complexities, dependencies, and deliverables. As the Project Manager, you will manage the overall delivery and performance of the team, utilising available tools and processes to maintain consistent velocity and focus on time to value.
You'll Have

• Over 10 years of Project Management experience in large technology environments.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering complex technology projects, including those in Digital/Customer, from planning through to implementation and transition to run phase, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Strong leadership skills, and experience leading other Project Managers
• Strong demonstrated experience managing a variety of stakeholder groups concurrently and at all levels, including Executive level.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to foster strong relationships with stakeholders and ensure clear communication and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strong motivation and self-starter attitude, ability to motivate fully fledged project teams and/or adopt a hands-on attitude and to lean in directly when required to meet specific objectives.
• Expertise in developing and maintaining detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets, and effectively managing project resources in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen, monitoring and reporting on project progress, budgets, proficiency leading early commercial vendor conversations, SOW drafting, review and recommendations.
• Experience in ensuring compliance with company policies, procedures, and quality standards.
• Proficiency with project delivery software tools such as Jira Workflow Management and Microsoft Project and budget management tools such as Clarity.
• Strong understanding and practical application of PRINCE2 project management methodologies
• Recognised Project Management certifications, such as PMI, PMP, PRINCE2, or AIPM preferred
• Airline experience (desired, but not essential)

Why Qantas?
If you're successful in your application, you'll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you'll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You'll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we've got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

• We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and additional purchased leave options.
• We'll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices.
• We'll support your wellbeing: Whether its learning to better support your own and others' mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Applications will close by 22nd of September