Address • Full-time permanent position
• PMO and project lead experience in Business Transformation
• Health and Wellbeing industry
• Convenient Melbourne CBD location
Use your project experience to help support mentally healthy workplaces
Converge International is a wholly Australian owned organisation with the mental health and wellbeing of people and their workplaces at the heart of all we do. We are a leader in providing health & wellbeing and people risk management solutions and provide a range of Employee Assistance Programs, crisis response and consulting services. This is your opportunity to work with some of Australia's largest industry, government and corporate organisations.
The Individual:
In this role you will execute best practice project management processes across the organisation by overseeing, managing and delivering end-to-end high-profile business projects and ensure they are complete on time and within budget.
The kind of person we have in mind for this role will have at least 3 -5 years’ experience in a PMO and project team. They will have established skills in project management and stakeholder management at a senior level. They will easily build rapport and negotiate with a range of internal stakeholders and confidently deal directly with the company executives.
Project management experience in a commercial setting is highly regarded.
This role will require you to:
• Manage the project portfolio/demand management pipeline by assisting sponsor in preparing business cases for SLT prioritization
• Oversea key project gate process including commencement, closing and post implementation reviews
• Business case development, project financial management on a weekly or sprint basis against baseline
• Escalation to steering group of funding issues (including expenditure in contingency)
• Project status reporting, risk and issues and tracking of project deliverables against business case objectives
• Manage project constraints/conflicts and manage project priorities and objectives
• Maintaining risks, issues, assumptions, actions log; and publishing regular status reporting for stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Actively manage cross project dependencies and assist delivery teams in removing impediments that extend beyond the scope of their capabilities
• Ensure that regular project governance activities, including reporting, KANBAN walls, financials, steering groups, and SLT are scheduled, executed, minutes and actions recorded and communicated to impacted parties
• Provide leadership in matters of collaboration, governance and probity, implementation, and business planning
• Reporting realisation of project benefits
• Manage client (internal and external) requests to a high standard
About you:
• Experience in project management office and managing projects
• Degree qualification with a preference in Change Management, Project Management or Business/Commerce
• A Project Management certification (PMI/ PRINCE2) may be advantageous
• Excellent relationship management experience and solid negotiation skills
• Highly organised, good technical skills and has the ability to problem-solve effectively
• MS Office: intermediate/advanced Excel, MS Project, good written and verbal communication
• A passion for mental health wellness and a desire to work in the allied health industry
Working at Converge means joining a diverse, talented, and caring community where our people feel included, valued and connected. We hire for heart. We are passionate about transforming the wellbeing of people at work. It’s at the core of all that we do.
Our commitment to you:
• Competitive remuneration
• Volunteer leave
• Paid parental leave
• Purchasing of additional leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• Flexible, diverse and challenging work
• Access to training and professional development
• Career development through internal mobility
• Lifestyle discounts – Discounted movie tickets, retail discounts and much more
If this sounds like the ideal role for you, click ‘Apply now’ to complete the online application.
Converge is committed to an inclusive culture where everyone is treated with respect and supported to thrive in the workplace. We encourage and support applications from people of all levels of experiences and abilities, ages, diverse backgrounds and cultures, including First Nations people and the LGBTQIA+ community. We invite you to send us your resume by clicking ‘Apply now’.
Please note that Converge will not ask you for personal details, including banking details, when you are undergo the recruitment process. Talent Acquisition Consultants will only contact you via email and/or phone call, not through social media channels.
