Address- Exciting opportunity to manage program activities within business and technology solutions.
- Opportunity to lead a team
- Open to both Sydney and Gold Coast based candidates
How will I help?
The Technology Program Director is an important role within Consumer Digital Technology team that oversees technology related programs and initiatives within the organization. You will be managing a team of 6 Senior Project Managers and 1 Project Manager, with the possibility of expansion.
- Drive program level planning efforts, identifying and handling critical program level dependencies and facilitate cross-project collaboration.
- Validate lifecycle methodology of various projects and ensure alignment and aggregation of critical data to enable tracking and reporting.
- Review the program scope as created by multiple Project/Account Managers against the client acceptance criteria at the program level.
- Review operational parameters which impact the bottom-line for the program to track performance against expected margins.
- Review and monitor all phases of the project on a regular basis and suggest corrective actions.
- Delivery Lead across key pillars including Scheme Compliance, Risk & Compliance, and Unite
In addition, this role is #LI-Hybrid
What’s in it for me?
You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to become one of the world’s great service companies. So, we will back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure.
Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements.
What do I need?
To be successful in this role, you will need experience operating in a large organization across the complex portfolio projects. Having experience in stakeholder and line management is essential. In addition to this, your skills may include:
- Track record in successfully leading and delivering large and complex projects / programs:
- Indicative cost above $20M
- Program/project duration > 12 months
- Teams typically > 50 resources
- Program/project Impact: High
- Program/project Risk: High
- Multiple sub projects / streams
- Multiple end deliverables (complex)
- Multiple business areas affected
- Multiple external partners and/or critical reliance
- Multiple interdependencies
- Ambiguous, high risk, volatile program
- Program which drives transformational changes
- Extensive experience within projects / programs with (minimum 3 years at Program Manager / Project Director level)
- Substantial experience working in a large and complex organisation in the financial services industry
- Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience
- Certified Practicing Project Director (via AIPM) and/or Program Management Professional (via PMI) and/ or Managing Successful Program (MSP) accreditation desirable or internal training mandatory.
What’s it like to work there?
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth, and insurance benefits in the market.
We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will have access to banking, wealth and insurance benefits.
How do I Apply?
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At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email ***************@westpac.com.au.
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please call 1800 655 592 Option 2.3 or email ***************@westpac.com.au
