Gm Portfolio Governance

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee- Location: Sydney-
- Type: Permanent, Full time- Your part in a changing world
- At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.
- We are an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.
- Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We've been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Townsville, Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty. Today, we employ more than 11,600 people around the world, and our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation insurance.
- The role
- The General Manager - Portfolio Governance & Capability is a fundamental role in providing strategic governance of enterprise transformation portfolio, including, agile enterprise planning processes and forecasting across the division. Ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and providing reporting to Group and AUSPAC Boards on project portfolio performance will be key responsibilities. The role also has accountability for the transformation functional chapters (business analysis, change management, project managers, scrum masters etc.) and building attractive career propositions for transformation professionals. Delivery of enterprise projects that aren't led out of the business Value Streams is also in the accountability for this role.
- How will I help?
- You will be accountable for leading and developing project and change management capability and discipline, partnering with Change Delivery leads for execution across the different value streams.
- Responsibilities will also include:
- Strategic workforce planning, capability development and practice management for key transformation skill sets.-
- Provide strategic advice to the divisional leadership team (EMB) on portfolio health, outcomes and effectiveness.-
- Lead and embed a project delivery governance framework for AUSPAC transformation projects focused on outcome and benefit realisation and design and embed strategic and architectural design governance.-
- Partner with the Group EPMO and Heads of Change for each value stream to establish appropriate governance for transformation projects, reporting and resource requirements.-
- Build and maintain strong effective relationships with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of projects.-
- Establish and embed a customer service mindset across the team, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement to customer service delivery.-
- Forward planning of project requirements and business resources to ensure availability of necessary skills and capability at the required time.-
- Attract, develop, and retain talent to support the delivery of initiatives, effectively managing resources in a matrixed reporting structure.- What do I need?
- To be successful, you will have extensive experience in Business Transformation and change delivery within a large complex organisation. You will also have:
- Exceptional project management and governance skills, in both traditional waterfall and scaled agile approaches.-
- Strong experience in program management execution.-
- Strong people leadership skills, enabling build of strong culture and high performance of project management professionals.-
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills, including the ability to influence without authority.-
- Principles, practices and governance, including extensive experience leading Agile at scale methodologies in the context of transformation change.- We're here to support you
- We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As an 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 'At My Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice-
- 12 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 premiumsDiscounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners- 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-
- Gold Employer status for 201