Senior Project Manager
PLEASE NOTE - THIS ROLE REQUIRES YOU TO BE BASED IN SYDNEY AND HAVE FULL WORKING RIGHTS
Daily rate:$900 - 1000 inc super
Duration:
6 months initially
Start:
ASAP
Location:
Sydney (remote working – occasional visit to office)
Client:
Our client is an established Australian Financial Services organisation, looking for a contract Senior Project Manager to assist in their PPM standardisation.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the business owner, providing Atlassian subject matter expertise and representing organisation-wide business needs
- Manage projects from Business Case through to closure and operationalisation, to ensure that projects are appropriately structured to achieve the maximum chance of success (time, budget, scope, quality).
- Ensure efficient and timely monitoring and reporting to required stakeholders.
- Manage the preparation of project cost estimates for gating submission/funding approval, and subsequently manage and report project delivery against agreed costs
- Monitor benefits against what was predicted in the business case and ensure all participants are informed and involved throughout the change programme
- Engage, inform and negotiate with stakeholders, particularly the sponsor, business owner, impacted business units, vendors and parties responsible for the services
- Adherence to the business’ delivery methodology and governance framework
- Manage vendors to deliver solutions for the project to ensure adherence to schedule, quality outcomes, cost effectiveness, appropriate risk management and seamless integration with other project delivery streams
Your experience:
- 10+ years Project Management experience managing budgets of $2M plus and experience running projects in an agile environment.
- Proven experience in implementing and managing JIRA within an enterprise environment.
- Experience with JIRA administration, automation, including creating custom workflows, dashboards, and reports.
- Expertise with the wider Atlassian product suite (Confluence and various plug ins).
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and deliver solutions that drive business value.
- Experience spearheading innovative solutions and navigating complex project landscapes.
- Ability to align multiple third party organisations with the business’ objectives to deliver to agreed timelines
- Evidence of successful customer/stakeholder executive management, particularly as part of business transformation projects.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, consultation, negotiation and reporting/presentation skills, including the ability to influence people at all levels, and foster and maintain collaborative working relationships both within and outside the organisation.
- Experience in leading projects and/or delivery of solution planning, development and delivery of projects with multiple streams to budget, time and quality standards.
- Leading, managing and motivating multi-disciplinary project delivery team, consisting of both internal and external (contractors and vendors) to achieve outstanding results.
- Managing financial and performance analysis with project reporting.
- Leading the development and application of best practice project management approaches and methodologies, as well as mentoring less experienced team members.
Please submit your CV asap and I will get back to you with more details if suitable.
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