Portfolio Manager (BBBH7978) Melbourne CBD, Melbourne, Australia
About the Organisation
A large business operating across multiple sites nationally. With a complex operating environment, the organisation is at an important point in its transformation journey, building the enterprise delivery capability needed to support a growing portfolio of technology and capital programs.
About the Role
This is a hands-on senior leadership role responsible for strengthening portfolio delivery capability across the enterprise program portfolio. Reporting to senior leadership, you will provide oversight, governance and delivery assurance across a broad portfolio spanning both technology and capital programs, bringing structure, consistency and visibility to a function that is actively building its maturity.
What You'll Do
- Provide portfolio-wide oversight and delivery assurance across concurrent technology and capital programs, ensuring executive leadership has a clear, consolidated view of portfolio health, risks and priorities.
- Drive the continued development and embedding of portfolio governance frameworks, reporting standards, investment prioritisation disciplines and benefits realisation practices across the function.
- Establish consistent delivery standards and ways of working across program teams, lifting capability and creating accountability where it hasn't previously existed.
- Partner with executive stakeholders, program sponsors and business owners to align delivery priorities, manage dependencies and support evidence-based investment decisions.
- Extend portfolio oversight beyond the traditional IT boundary to include capital and infrastructure programs ,bringing a broad, enterprise-wide lens to portfolio management.
- Identify and escalate risks, issues and delivery concerns constructively and early , providing an independent view of program health rather than accepting what program teams report.
- Build strong relationships across a complex organisation , influencing without authority and earning trust quickly in an environment where the governance function is still establishing its credibility.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience in enterprise portfolio governance, PMO leadership or delivery assurance
- Demonstrated track record building or uplifting portfolio delivery capability in an immature or evolving function. You've done this before and know what good looks like.
- Strong governance and reporting skills , able to design and embed frameworks that give executive leadership genuine visibility and confidence, not noise.
- Experience operating in complex, regulated or mission-driven environments highly regarded.
Apply directly and we will reach out for a discussion.