Project Manager

at  Link Group

EXPERIENCE & PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• 7+ years’ experience in successful project management.
• 4+ years’ experience in project management within financial services, preferably with experience in superannuation and/or risk insurance knowledge.
• Strong PM capabilities in time, cost, scope, quality reporting and governance.
• Exceptional leadership skills and capability - Enthusiastic, engaging and inspiring.
• Commercially savy.
• Strong experience in management of risk.
• Ability to lead multiple teams across diverse platforms
• Excellent organisational skills - Can quickly and effectively mobilise both time and resources (clients and project team members) to get things done
• Great stakeholder management skills including regular up-to date and accurate written and verbal updates to key stakeholders.Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues and clients at all levels.

THE ROLE

The role of Project Manager is to lead and inspire our delivery teams to achieve exceptional customer outcomes. You will form relationships with key stakeholders, provide great decision making and effectively lead a delivery team. This role involves planning, directing and leading the development and implementation of projects to satisfy business strategies and objectives.

• Fixed term contract until 30th June 2025
• Flexible location - Paramatta or Melbourne CBD

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build strong relationships and actively collaborate across functions to support the achievement of objectives.
• Role model transparent and trustworthy communication – Display effective communication concepts, tools and techniques, accurately interpret ideas, information and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviours
• Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria
• Engages the team, motivating them, taking care of their needs and maintaining a friendly and productive work environment. Holding self and other project team members accountable to meet commitments. Providing direction to the team, delegating and removing obstacles to get work done
• Defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Facilitating informed engagement and sound decision making grounded in facts
• Implementing effective governance for project tracking and reporting to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, tracking reports and financial information
• Proactively manages project budget variance, scope and change requests. Enforces project governance & compliance, Delegation of Authority and the consistent application of Link’s project methodology
• Ensure change control mechanisms are put in place to manage project schedules.
• Determining, monitoring, analysing and controlling project costs and outcomes to ensure they meet financial objectives
• Management of tasks and resources
• Creating risk mitigation strategies to anticipate, assess and resolve project risks as they are encounteredPromoting a culture of risk and compliance awareness.