Program Manager - Business Transformation

Description:

Job Description
Location, SydneyMax Term ContractLead & Innovate: Manage multi-million-dollar projects with high complexity and diverse stakeholders.
How will I help?
We are seeking a seasoned and results-driven Program Manager - Business Transformation to join our team. In this role, you will lead and manage large projects, ensuring successful delivery within agreed scope, time, cost, and quality. You will work closely with stakeholders across various departments to drive transformation and ensure compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements.
You will be responsible for:
Leading and managing large projects with indicative costs over $20M and durations of 18-36 months.Overseeing multiple sub-projects, streams, and technology teams, affecting multiple business areas.Managing diverse stakeholder expectations across different business divisions.Ensuring continuous delivery through Agile methodology within a complex organisation.Managing end-to-end key program milestones across business and technology.Monitoring and reporting to the Business Lead on financials, risks, issues, and progress towards milestones and deliverables.Forecasting and managing the cost/benefits impacts of scope changes and managing partner/vendor costs to ensure delivery within budget.Identifying, monitoring, reporting, and escalating risks and issues, challenging and influencing leadership and stakeholders as needed.Engaging, informing, influencing, and negotiating with stakeholders to ensure commitment throughout the program/project.Ensuring adherence to enterprise methodologies and processes, including Transformation Delivery Standards (TDS), Agile Execution Framework (AEF), and Solution Engineering Lifecycle (SELC).Facilitating and driving key Customer Engagement governance cadences.Coaching and mentoring others on best practices in finance management, risk & issue management, and governance methodologies.Uplifting delivery capability across the program and coaching teams on Customer Engagement Ways of Working.
What’s in it for me?
You’ll play a significant part in the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
What do I need?
Proven track record in leading and managing large projects with indicative costs over $20M and durations of 18-36 months.Experience managing projects with high complexity, multiple sub-projects, and technology teams.Ability to manage diverse stakeholder expectations across different business divisions.Strong experience in continuous delivery through Agile methodology.Proficiency in end-to-end management of key program milestones across business and technology.Skills in monitoring and reporting on financials, risks, issues, and progress towards milestones.Ability to forecast and manage cost/benefits impacts of scope changes and partner/vendor costs.Experience in identifying, monitoring, reporting, and escalating risks and issues.Strong stakeholder management skills to engage, inform, influence, and negotiate.Familiarity with Transformation Delivery Standards (TDS), Agile Execution Framework (AEF), and Solution Engineering Lifecycle (SELC).Ability to facilitate and drive governance cadences.Skills in coaching and mentoring on best practices in finance management, risk & issue management, and governance methodologies.
What’s it like to work there?
We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities, and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow, or all the little perks in between. We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow. As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.
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At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.
We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au .
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