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At John Holland, our purpose is simple, we transform lives with everything we do. We've always known at its heart infrastructure is about people - our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work.
That's our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.
Be part of a team that thrives on rising to the challenge of transforming lives for good.
Are you up for the challenge?
We are currently seeking to appoint a Head of IT Business Management to join our Information Technology (IT) team in a senior leadership role, based out of John Holland's state-of-the-art Flinders Gate office.
Reporting to the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO), you will oversee the strategic direction, governance, and performance of the IT function across the organisation. You will work closely with the CDIO to develop key metrics and optimisation opportunities.
This role will drive the creation of the annual IT business plan and budget build as well as ongoing budget management throughout the year. You will be responsible for planning, governance and reporting of IT initiatives and ensuring alignment and progression against the IT business plan.
About the Role
- Lead and manage the IT Business Management team, which includes IT strategy, planning, governance, finance, commercial and portfolio management functions.
- Develop and implement the IT strategic plan, roadmap, and budget in collaboration with the CDIO and other senior leaders. Ongoing custodianship of the plan and associated progress tracking and reporting.
- Ability to craft and communicate a broad, long-term strategic direction with strong rationale.
- Emotional intelligence, influence, and diplomacy to develop relationships and lead teams through difficult decisions and conversations around prioritisation and investment
- Develop exec-level relationships and model good relationship management / collaboration for your team
- Role model John Holland values; Future Focused, Caring, Imaginative, Empowering
- Establish and maintain effective IT governance frameworks, policies, standards, and processes to ensure alignment, accountability, and transparency of IT activities and investments
- Manage the IT Investment Committee process which is comprised of JH Executives to govern the funding, approval, and prioritisation of key initiatives
- Visualise and communicate IT's work in progress, prioritisation and capacity limits
- Develop and implement an overall IT scorecard which monitors the performance of IT and is clearly aligned to business outcomes
- Identify optimisation opportunities to enhance the IT function and implement agreed initiatives
- Create a communication plan that drives a significant uplift in how IT communicates the business value that it delivers
- Collaborate with the IT SLT to create actions plans for engagement survey results that enhance culture and employee value proposition
- Taking a future focused view of IT direction and skills required to support capabilities
- Management of IT town hall planning and facilitation
- Responsible for the annual IT budget build and ongoing financial management of the plan, including levies and recoveries
- Forecast a longer-term view of IT costs and identify cost saving opportunities
- Responsible for commercial management of all IT agreement and contracts with vendors and suppliers.
This position will require you to have significant experience leading teams in a senior management role within an IT environment. A relevant Degree/Post Graduate qualification is highly regarded.
You will have demonstrated experience in:
- Developing IT performance scorecards and benchmarking
- Developing IT strategy and execution plans
- Executing this role in other medium / large organisations
- Influencing to drive organisational change
- Building high performing teams
Your well-developed leadership, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, along with your ability to manage multiple tasks and projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, will see you succeed in the role.
As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to transform lives.
Your success is reflected in ours, so we're committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success.
We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.
We are committed to building a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, women, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and people who identify as LGBTI+.
What's in it for you when you join John Holland?
We're about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.
We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From industry-leading leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.
We offer:
Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice packaging options available.
Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with superannuation and up to an extra 18 weeks of superannuation paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two additional John Holland Days to prioritise health and wellbeing.
Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you'll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
Learning and development opportunities where you'll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, and technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
Inclusion and diversity is part of how we work and do what we do at John Holland. Our active commitment to being an employer of choice is evident in the delivery of our Gender Equality Strategic Plan supported by our Pride, Celebrate Women, RAP and Grow networks.
Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it's flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we're committed to helping our people work flexibly.
