Key Responsibilities

1. Project Delivery & Governance

• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Establish and manage project governance structures, including scope management, planning, risk management, issue resolution, and change control processes.
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies, frameworks, and reporting standards.
• Monitor project performance and implement corrective actions where necessary.

2. Stakeholder & Communication Management

• Engage proactively with project sponsors, business owners, and stakeholders to manage expectations and maintain alignment.
• Communicate project progress, risks, issues, and key decisions through clear and concise reporting.
• Facilitate collaboration and transparency across cross-functional teams, vendors, and external partners.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations and status updates.

3. Planning & Execution

• Develop detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables in collaboration with delivery teams.
• Coordinate project dependencies and ensure timely completion of critical activities.
• Track project progress against agreed timelines and budgets.
• Identify, manage, and escalate risks, issues, and key decisions impacting project success.

4. Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to project teams and service providers.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance working environment.
• Mentor and support junior project managers, coordinators, or team members where applicable.
• Encourage teamwork, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.

5. Quality, Risk & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure project outputs meet agreed quality standards and business objectives.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Conduct lessons learned reviews and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promote process optimisation and best practices across project delivery functions.

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Project Management, Business Management, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Professional certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum Master, or equivalent will be advantageous.

Experience

• Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in project management, including at least 3 years in a senior or lead project management role.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Experience managing both business and technical projects.
• Experience working within structured project governance environments.
• Experience using Smartsheet will be advantageous.