Program Manager

at  Compass Group Australia

PROGRAM MANAGER

Today and tomorrow at Compass Group, we serve a better future by enriching people, communities and our planet. We do this because we believe that everyone should be seen and nourished as a whole person. We focus on the individual, their needs and more broadly on positive impacts in the community.

• Develop and implement program strategies that align with organisational and goals balancing competing strategic and operational demands and priorities
• Plan, oversee and manage multiple complex programs simultaneously, identifying and managing emerging and actual cross-functional interdependencies and risks
• Lead and oversee all aspects of program development, implementation and closure across a portfolio of complex projects and workstreams, preparing business cases (as required) and project plans, establishing governance, managing matrixed resources, and meeting reporting requirements, to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and in line best practice project management methodology
• Work closely with the program sponsor, program business owner, cross-functional teams, and assigned workstream project managers to develop the scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and delivery timing, interdependencies, dependencies, interlocks, risks, issues, assumptions, change management plan / activities
• Monitor program progress and performance to inform future planning developing effective strategies to ensure program success whilst providing regular performance reporting to the Executive SteerCo, program sponsor and business owner and stakeholders
• Foster a culture of lessons learnt, drive change and continuous improvement and best practices in program management processes and methodologies, creating a blueprint for future new partnership delivery excellence