Senior Project Manager

at  GHD

AT GHD, WE DON’T JUST BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF COMMITMENT, WE LIVE AND BREATHE IT EVERY DAY

That’s why we pledge to support and empower all of our people to make a positive impact when working with the right technology and training as you bring ideas and projects to life.
Together with your colleagues, clients and partners, you’ll make an impact that is felt by all. See where your commitment could take you.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Organisational Development team. Working closely with the Global Leader – Change & Transformation, you will be responsible to provide project management at the portfolio, program and project levels to support the Enterprise-wide transformation.
This role will be a senior member of a project management resource team established to service the portfolio of delivery initiatives and key programs: Delivery Excellence, Global Delivery Strategy, Delivery Transformation.

• Establish systems, roadmaps and practices to maintain project pace and progress
• Run, manage and track progress using agile and waterfall methodologies
• Stakeholder engagement - establish and implement effective communications, change and learning strategies, utilising SMEs where needed
• Risk management - proactively identify and mitigate risks to outcomes
• Resource management – proactive assessment of resource requirements and scheduling to ensure availability
• Manages the project scope in a way that enables alignment to strategic objectives and outcomes are delivered that meet stakeholders expectations
• Manage project outcomes and integrations, considering the interdependencies, sequencing of initiatives with other enterprise activity.
• Set priorities and accountablities for the activities
• Track and drive quality outcomes to agreed time and budget
• Clearly enable the team to articulate the value to be created by the project

Partnering at program level :

• Establish and maintain effective relationships with program leadership team, Program reference group, adjacent initiative leaders, business leaders and subject matter experts
• Track and drive program outcomes
• Identify interconnectivity with complementary strategies and integration into the business
• Establish systems and maintain ongoing day to day management of the program
• Program and project activity performance tracking (time, budget, deliverables)
• Identify and manage program, project and external interdependencies
• Develop regular reporting to the Program Leader and project leads and determine ongoing reporting requirements and cadence

Contributing to portfolio level :

• Work with the portfolio leader, delivery program leaders, functional leaders, initiative leaders and other project managers, align programs and projects to the portfolio objectives and outcomes
• Identify the interdependencies and critical connections and works with organisational development to strength the cross-portfolio collaboration
• Translate the portfolio intent into program and project decisions, which may lead to program and project changes related to: Sequencing, Rescoping, Terminating, Change of Pace, Value creation