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Form of workDo you want drive Liebherr Australia’s organisational growth programme to 2030 and beyond? The organisation is preparing for unprecedented growth and wishes to recruit an experienced Programme Manager to lead a broad range of cross-functional organisational projects. Do you have exceptional programme/master scheduling experience with the capacity to clearly define project scopes, identify critical path, mitigate risk, and quantify investment requirements? Are you an exceptional communicator with the capacity to influence and work effectively in a matrix project organisation to drive the organisations growth journey?
The Opportunity:
Based in Adelaide or Perth, Liebherr Australia is seeking a Programme Manager to work with an established matrix project organisation to translate fleet growth into functional requirements and to provide modelled data driven inputs to a broad range of project scopes delivered as a programme This programme will ensure the organisation is ready to meet the growth requirements.
Reporting to the Executive General Manager, Future Industries Project, you will manage and coordinate a Master Schedule across the portfolio of projects. Routine high quality programme reporting is a key deliverable where constraint, risk and mitigation strategies are clearly articulated. You will have the communication skills to engage cross functional teams as well as to deliver comprehensive updates to Executive stakeholders domestically, internationally internal, and external to the organisation.
This role is for a highly experienced and motivated professional who is comfortable with changing priorities and has the unique skills to pivot quickly to deliver value outcomes. If you're ready to make an impact in a dynamic workplace where every day is a new adventure, we would love to meet you.
Responsibilities include:
- Preparing and executing a resource capacity plan and resource schedules.
- Demonstrated experience successfully managing projects interrelationships, alignments and impacts to achieve integrated and coordinated delivery.
- Ensure programme’s scope, plans, costs, schedules, and risk mitigation strategies are developed, implemented, and delivered on time, to budget and specification.
- Ability to Influence and support change across functional areas, with a proven ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships where competing agendas and priorities exist.
- Persuade, motivate, and engage a broad range of internal and external stakeholders influential to the program’s success, such as the Executive Leadership Team, Board of Management using tailored strategies including workshops, briefings, and presentations.
- Produce accurate, succinct, and high-quality reports on project progress through project lifecycles.
- Excellent risk management skills, with experience reporting and resolving risks and issues that could impact project outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience working in a collaborative environment with high performing teams with high priority deliverables under tight timeframes and balancing competing priorities.
- Lead the development of detailed needs analyses and business cases to initiate various programs/ projects and present aspects of the individual business cases to obtain approval from senior stakeholders.
You’ll be great in this role because:
You thrive working in a fast paced and dynamic environment, not afraid to roll your sleeves up while being tactical, operational, and strategic all at the same time! You bring great technical skills in conjunction with exceptional project management capability with your approach. You are unflustered despite multiple priorities and remain steadfast in seeking the best outcomes for the organisation. You bring an innovative approach to your work, and you are not afraid to challenge 'how it's always been done' and can support others through change.
Skills and qualifications:
- Degree qualification in Commerce, Business, Finance, Project Management, or a relevant discipline.
- Formal qualification in Project Management (Essential)
- Strong track record leading and implementing major transformational or change management projects across large complex business areas and organisations.
- Highly developed master scheduling capabilities, including using scheduling software (e.g., Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or similar tools) to develop and manage complex project schedules.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities, handle conflicts, and proactively address scheduling challenges in a dynamic project environment.
- Proven experience in large scale transformation initiatives driving multiple streams of organisational functions.
- Demonstrated experience successfully managing projects interrelationships, alignments and impacts to achieve integrated and coordinated delivery.
- Able to travel domestically and internationally.
Why should you join Liebherr’s family?
At Liebherr Australia, we’re committed to looking after you, with some great benefits including (but not limited to):
- A culture of reward, recognition, and celebration
- Generous employee benefits pool, including 5 bonus leave days per year, ability to purchase additional leave, 10 weeks paid parental leave, early access to LSL; wide range of company discounts and retail discounts program.
- Training programs and opportunities to ensure your continued growth.
- Soft skills and Leadership training programs
If we sound like the perfect fit for you, apply now!
At Liebherr we are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the communities in which we live, work and operate. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, teamwork and diversity of thought in the workplace. We are dedicated to seeing our employees work together in an environment that fosters the true meaning of collaboration; a culture that creates the highest quality, cutting-edge products, long-lasting relationships, and improved organisational and individual capabilities. We aim to give our employees an opportunity to grow and develop their careers.
Please apply via the “apply now” link below.
Kushali RaghwaniHR Business Partner
Applications close COB Friday 23 February 2024
Liebherr Australia would like to thank you for submitting your application and candidates are advised that interviews may commence before closing date.
Please note: applicants successful in progressing past interview stage will be required to undergo a Pre-employment process including National Police Clearance and Medical Screening process which includes drug and alcohol testing.
No agencies or third parties please.
Have we awoken your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your online application. If you have any questions, please contact Kushali Raghwani at: ***************@liebherr.com.
One Passion. Many Opportunities.
Liebherr-Australia Pty Ltd is part of the Liebherr Group, which employs around 48,000 people, in more than 140 companies and 50 countries on every continent. Liebherr's decades of experience, knowledge, and dedication to the highest quality and most reliable technologies makes Liebherr a respected leader and a trustworthy partner to industry. Liebherr-Australia is responsible for selling and servicing earthmoving machines, mining machines, mobile cranes, tower cranes, maritime cranes as well as deep foundation machines throughout Australia and New Zealand. Though the company's 20 hectare Head Office Complex is based in Adelaide, Australia, the commitment to, and support of, New Zealand customers is unwavering.
