Emerging Technology Manager

**Emerging Technology Manager**
- **You are passionate about challenging the status quo, with proven delivery expertise.**:

- **Our team is driven to accelerate the discovery and delivery of innovative products.**:

- **Together we're working to build the bank of tomorrow, making things better for employees.**

**Do work that matters.**

As an Emerging Technology Manager, you are passionate about identifying new opportunities and using technology to solve problems and create great experiences for the Enterprise. The Enterprise portfolio focuses on delivering innovations and new technology internally to the Bank, transforming the day-to-day of our internal teams and people. You have a proven track record of delivery and will be able to harness your experience to help build the bank of tomorrow, today.

Sitting within the Emerging Technology Enterprise Team, as a Manager you will be instrumental in partnering with enterprise stakeholders to deliver a range of initiatives from proof of concepts to the adoption of new tooling on an enterprise scale. With a focus on AI, Security, Engineering Tooling, and more, you will be solving complex puzzles and leading projects that transform the enterprise to enable us to deliver value to our customers securely and at pace aligning with our strategic goals to achieve NPS +30.

**See yourself in our team**

The Emerging Technology team sits within the Group Technology Division of the Commonwealth Bank and exists to "accelerate the discovery and delivery of the products and platforms that will power the bank of tomorrow". The team delivers on its mission by executing a portfolio of innovation initiatives, which are focused on the discovery, design, and delivery of new tools and products for the Bank and our customers.

To deliver their work the team engages and collaborates with a wide range of technology partners, consulting houses, and internal Business Units to design, experiment, and implement cutting-edge solutions that revolutionise the way we work and serve our customers.

The team is full of highly driven, tenacious and inspired individuals who come together to solve puzzles each and every day. We're here to do the best work of our lives. Are you up for it?

This role sits within Enterprise Innovation (Emerging Technology) and reports to the Innovation Lead.

**Your key responsibilities**
- **Drive Enterprise Innovation**:Collaborate with the Innovation Lead and enterprise partners to identify opportunities, manage innovation portfolios, and ensure successful end-to-end delivery of initiatives.
- **Lead Initiative Delivery**:Oversee the entire lifecycle of projects, from ideation and procurement to cross-functional team management, strategy execution, and product delivery.
- **Enhance Enterprise Collaboration**:Act as a central point of contact between Engineering, Design, Product teams, and Business stakeholders to ensure seamless communication and alignment.
- **Initiative Development**: Support with the development of hypotheses and experiments the team must deliver to validate a projects desirability, technical feasibility or business viability.
- **Strong Stakeholder Management and Communication**: Structure effective communications which take complex concepts or initiatives and articulates them in a way that is simple and easy to understand by all stakeholders.
- **Risk Management**:Identify, articulate and manage risks and conflicts across various streams of work.
- **Develop the Practice**:Develop the Emerging Technology Enterprise Practice and ways of working, to continually advance our craft and evolve the tools and techniques we use in our work, and role model the Emerging Technology Team Principles and Values.

**We are interested to hear from people who have**:

- 2-5 years in innovation management or a related field, with a strong track record in enterprise project delivery.
- A hustler, can-do attitude - a strategic and creative mindset, that thrives under pressure, operates well with ambiguity, and has the resilience to solve puzzles no one at the Bank has solved before.
- An experimentation mindset, with a keen interest in new technology trends and their potential impact on the future of the Bank and how it serves the enterprise and customers.
- A balanced understanding of technical, business, and organisational aspects.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.
- Strong Agile delivery track record, across products and/or enterprise transformational programs of work.
- Ability to multitask and be flexible with changing priorities or deadlines.
- An ability to learn quickly and adopt a strong growth mindset to continually develop and learn new skills.
- Previous experience working in Financial Services preferred but not essential.

**At CommBank, flexibility is**:

- For everyone, no matter what their reason is for flexing
- Where we work, when we work & how we work
- Trusting our people and focusing o