ABOUT US:

Roy Morgan is Australia’s best known and longest established market research company, with an unparalleled reputation for reliable, accurate, meaningful, revealing market research.
Roy Morgan has a transformational program underway to migrate our data management into more modern data lakes/warehouse designs, as well as remap our current processes into modern pipelines. The Technology department is responsible for positioning Roy Morgan as an efficient and innovative Research Company that employs best in breed technologies and methodologies to generate powerful insights for its customers.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As the Head of PMO, you are responsible for building and leading the PMO function, providing strategic oversight across the transformation portfolio, and ensuring project excellence and alignment to business objectives. A key responsibility of this role is to take over the leadership and coordination of existing project managers, business analysts, and data-focused delivery teams within IT, evolving their capability and alignment under a unified framework. The PMO will then turn its focus on servicing all business project management needs going forward.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in project, program, or portfolio management, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership capacity
• Certifications in project (PMP, PRINCE2), change (Prosci), and/or agile delivery (Scrum, SAFe)
• Demonstrated success establishing or leading a PMO function across both technology and business transformation environments
• Proven experience managing or integrating project managers, business analysts, and/or data delivery teams
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT delivery, digital transformation, and data maturity journeys
• Well-developed communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts concisely and in plain English, to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Preferably worked in a research or data centric organisation

• Establish and lead a centralised PMO within the IT portfolio, scalable to support broader business transformation
• Develop and implement enterprise-wide project management methodologies, standards, and project management tools
• Integrate and lead existing project managers and business analysts currently embedded within the IT team, setting clear goals, roles, and performance expectations
• Provide end-to-end delivery oversight for critical technology programs including cloud adoption, legacy system replacement, cybersecurity uplift, digital platform modernisation and datalake/pipeline analysis and delivery
• Manage project risks, interdependencies, and stakeholder engagement to maintain delivery momentum and alignment with business needs
• Ensure data transformation efforts drive measurable business value, improved decision-making, regulatory compliance, and a scalable data foundation for the future
• Implement robust governance frameworks for project prioritisation, security and risk management, status tracking, and executive reporting