Manager IT Strategy and Planning

at  Melbourne Water

WHO WE ARE

In Melbourne, water is essential to our way of life.
As caretakers for Melbourne’s water cycle, we care for water, life and land throughout Melbourne: both its people and its biodiversity.
Each time you drink from the tap, flush a toilet, run through a yard sprinkler, or kayak down the Yarra—we’re there. Primed and ready, quietly delivering some of the world’s cleanest water for over five million residents and wildlife that call Melbourne home —just as we have for over 130 years.
If you value making it count, diving in with curiosity, and doing what’s right, you’re in the right place.

As the Manager IT Strategy and Planning you will be responsible for developing, refreshing and governing Melbourne Water’s overall IT Strategy, supporting technology roadmaps and associated implementation plans. This role is also responsible for future delivery capability within IT and identifying and helping resolve blockages. This role is key to ensuring Melbourne Water has a clear, coherent approach to technology strategy to be able to deliver business outcomes, grow capability and maintain organizational alignment.

• Lead the development and maintenance of an overall plan for the ongoing implementation of IT Strategy, acting as a focal point for technology strategy.
• Identify, investigate and resolve areas of opportunity and uncertainty, lead effective interventions, and produce relevant strategy and planning artefacts (e.g. supporting strategies, position papers, options papers, delivery resource modelling) to enable greater clarity and delivery capability
• Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with senior business and IT stakeholders to ensure that strategy is well communicated, reflects relevant inputs, and changes dynamically to address emerging issues and opportunities
• Oversight of IT business alignment initiatives to ensure IT delivers organisational value and benefits.

For more information, please see attached Role Mandate

About you:

• Previous and extensive experience in IT Strategy Development and Strategic Planning.
• Demonstrated Strong business and commercial acumen and consulting capability
• Proven experience in building and cultivating effective partnerships between business and technology
• Excellent communication, diplomacy, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skill
• Previous experience in Portfolio Resource Planning & Pricing Submission experience highly advantageous.
• Utility experience highly regarded.