Address- Leverage your first-class project management and people leadership capabilities.
- Make an impact working for a values and community-oriented, leading customer-owned bank.
- Permanent, full-time hybrid opportunity with Newcastle-based offices.
Purpose of the role
Greater Bank and Newcastle Permanent have come together to form NGM Group, a leader in customer-owned banking. We currently have an exciting, leadership opportunity available within our newly formed Property, Transformation, and Workplaces Services team.
Reporting to the Head of Property, Transformation, and Workplaces Services, you’ll lead a team responsible for the successful execution of Property Projects of varying scale across NGM Group, spanning from head office, to our branch network and ATMs.
In addition to your solid project/program management expertise, this role requires a high level of strategic thinking and dynamic and engaging leadership skills to ensure programs are delivered on time, within budget, and with high quality results.
What will your key responsibilities include?
- Leading the NGM Property Project Delivery Team to support with the successful execution of Property projects within the NGM Group.
- Accountable for all scheduling, resource, task, and milestone management to ensure projects are delivered in accordance with time, budget, and quality measures.
- Leading the delivery cadence set for the initiative delivery team.
- Managing project budgets and forecasts against corporate expectations for the initiative.
- Providing regular written updates on the progress of projects against plan and allocated budget, highlighting where necessary, issues and risks to any delivery expectations.
- Being a project champion, coaching your delivery teams and business subject matter experts to initiative success.
- Identifying delivery risks and developing contingency plans and controls to address them.
- Serving as the primary point of contact between stakeholders, vendors, and the delivery team, communicating progress updates, risks, and issues as they arise.
- Providing regular reporting on the project status, leading indicators, risks, issues, and inter-dependencies.
- Managing the project budget, tracking expenses, monthly forecasting and ensuring the project is delivered within approved budget constraints.
What are we looking for?
- Demonstrated experience in construction management or property management, including the delivery of Property Projects in the commercial or retail industries.
- Proven people leadership capabilities.
- Proficiency in using project management software, tools, and techniques to effectively plan, execute, and monitor programs and projects. This may include tools such as Atlassian (i.e. Confluence and Jira), Microsoft Project, or other similar software.
- The ability to analyse and interpret initiative data, metrics, and performance leading indicators to assess progress, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.
- Knowledge of risk management principles and practices, including identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with Project Delivery. This may involve developing risk management plans, conducting risk assessments, and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
- Understanding of financial concepts and ability to manage program and project budgets, financial forecasts, and financial reporting. This includes tracking expenses, managing financial risks, and ensuring compliance with financial policies and procedures.
- Experience and skill in prioritising and managing multiple projects/tasks, with technical project management skills.
- Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements affecting supply chain management.
- Experience in application of procedures and governance affecting property management.
What can you expect from us?
NGM Group employees can take advantage of the following work perks:
Health and wellbeing; Fitness passport, corporate health insurance and annual flu vaccination.
Lifestyle and giving back; Hotel discounts, 14 weeks paid parental leave, two community volunteer days per year and three recreational leave days per year.
Professional advancement; Diverse career opportunities, recognition programs and employee referral program.
About us
We’re NGM Group, and we offer retail banking services to more than half a million Australians under the brands Greater Bank and Newcastle Permanent.
We have fresh energy and big goals for our customers, and our people are key to us achieving this success. If you’re ready to be part of a team that puts the customer first and enjoys a challenge as the path to growth and innovation, then … we want you!
Collectively, we’re the largest customer-owned bank based on net assets and the 10th largest Australian-owned bank for household deposits. A financial powerhouse headquartered in the Hunter, we have a workforce of more than 1,600 people and total assets of more than $20 billion.
