Delivery Manager

**What Makes Us, Us**

We want to be the most trusted wellbeing company in Australia, and this means our focus on wellbeing starts with our people. We support our employees' Real Wellbeing so that they can better support our members' and customers' wellbeing journey.

At Australian Unity we're for real wellbeing. For us, real wellbeing means so much more than physical health. It's about your standard of living, your personal relationships and being connected to your community. It's about what you want to achieve in life, while having the security to get out and do what makes you happy.

We're **bold**,** warm** and **honest**. We make a real difference to people's wellbeing.

**Our Opportunity**

We are seeking a Delivery Lead to join our Group Technology and Operations team, reporting to the Project Management Practice Lead.

This Delivery Lead is responsible for the delivery of business and technical initiatives on behalf of one of our Wealth & Capital Markets (Financial Services) business platform. The primary responsibility is to supervise the entire technology delivery process, working with a long standing DevSecOps team, from the initiation of projects and initiatives to their completion, with a strong emphasis on realising business goals and ensuring customer satisfaction.

The Delivery Lead is expected to engage in challenging discussions with the team and consistently enhance delivery processes to boost velocity and throughput. The role will also work closely with senior business and technology stakeholders, including product owners, architects, service providers and support teams.

**What you will deliver**
- **Delivery Leadership**: Lead and guide delivery squad to ensure multiple streams of delivery are managed to best practice standards, optimise continuous delivery and reduce cycle time ongoingly to maximise delivery of business outcomes
- **Delivery Management**: Identify & mitigate delivery risks and ensure best practice testing practices are adhered to
- **Delivery Execution**: Create & execute delivery plans, conducting required team events (sprint planning, stand-ups, stakeholder update sessions etc) to execute effectively
- **Stakeholder Management**: Build engagement and alignment with project sponsors and team members to co-design scope and achievable delivery plans to realise expected benefits
- **Reporting**: Track, analyse and communicate the progress and outcomes of projects delivery
- **Delivery Optimisation**: Identify bottlenecks and optimise resource utilisation to address any delivery constraints

**About you**

Our Australian Unity Delivery Leads require strong leadership skills, particularly as this role oversees systems delivery from ideation through to realised business benefits in production, facilitates agile events and ensures a clear path to release through dependency, impediment and risk management on behalf of the team.

In addition to the above we are also looking for:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications with a minimum of 3-5 years' experience in a similar role. Previous experience as a developer, solution architect or similar would be highly regarded
- Previous experience in various project methodologies like Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM and KANBAN) and Hybrid is essential.
- Strong experience in facilitating teams through discovery and solution phases, ensuring triaging and execution is always directly linked to delivering business goals
- Demonstrated (and strong experience) forming and developing strong partnerships with stakeholders and influencing them to achieve favourable outcomes
- Excellent ability to navigate through ambiguity and complex business environments to deliver outstanding business solutions.
- Demonstrated experience operating in a fast paced, changing environment.
- Working knowledge of SharePoint, Wrike and other Enterprise Project Management systems
- Competent in use of Atlassian including Jira/Confluence, Visio and Microsoft office suite.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and a passion for working in highly collaborative environments.

**What's on Offer**

You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:

- Competitive salary + bonus program
- Enjoy additional yearly Well-Being and Community leave days
- 14-week paid parental leave, with equal benefit for both parents PLUS our Bump to Baby'
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Assistance Program - support and assistance for you and your partner at those times in life when you need it most.
- Maxxia Rewards - a great range of discounts and benefits at selected retail outlets, department stores, attractions, travel, cinemas, restaurants.
- Discounts across the Australian Unity business including Private Health Insurance, General Insurance + more
- Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform

**Where to from here?