Senior Project Manager

at  AMP Limited

DESCRIPTION OF DIVISION AND BUSINESS UNIT

The Chief Transformation Office (CTO) function is the technical, operational, and project delivery hub of AMP, partnering with AMP business units to design, deliver and manage innovative technology and operational solutions that meet the current and future needs of customers. Our vision is to be recognised as AMP’s technology innovators and integrators, applying world-class best practice standards and processes within AMP’s operations.

JOB SPECIFIC CAPABILITIES REQUIRED:

• A self-motivator who takes end-to-end accountability to drive the right outcome
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable dealing with constant changes in the operating environment
• A relentless focus on execution
• Demonstrated strong presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated highly developed oral and written communication skills, with the ability to interact with all levels
• Ability to collaborate with, build rapport and gain the trust of stakeholders throughout the organisation in the interest of advancing security awareness.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical and business team to drive outcomes in a matrix management environment
• Highly developed presentation and persuasive skills.
• Demonstrated ability to provide direct management and peer mentoring and support

WORKING AT AMP

We are transforming our business. We are looking for people with courage, accountability and integrity who inspire the same in others. If you are comfortable challenging the status-quo and perform at your best in an evolving and complex environment - we need you.

• To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate an excellent proficiency in the following capabilities:
• Delivery management
• Strong team leadership and ability to instil a vision for the project, creating a motivating environment and building a team culture with focus on ownership, delivery and collaboration across business and IT
• Contemporary project management skills, including strong planning with an ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines, manage dependencies, assumptions, risks and issues and instil stakeholder confidence
• Demonstrable hands-on experience in end-to-end programme/project delivery, leveraging matrixed and distributed teams
• Ability to establish effective project governance and controls to deliver quality outcomes
• Strong commercial focus and business judgement with the ability to drive programme budget efficiencies
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, demonstrating ability to maintain effective relationships, ensure project is aligned to business objectives and negotiate trade-offs between business need and project do-ability
• Delivering effective communications tailored for different audiences at all levels
• Strong Vendor management
• Ability to proactively anticipate and resolve problems/roadblocks and maintain delivery momentum
• Ability to understand Technology and translate them to financial terms
• Identification and implementation of mitigating controls with consideration of associated costs and benefits to allow the business to make informed risk and control management decisions
• Experience in delivering financial transformation projects is desirable
• Experience in working in both Agile and Waterfall delivery environments is desirable
• Excellent collaboration with other Streams within the Service-X Program to ensure dependencies are proactively managed