Senior Project Manager

The SunRice Group is an Australian ASX-listed branded food group, comprising multiple businesses, assets and operations across Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, the United States, The Pacific Islands and Asia.  SunRice was built by the Australian rice industry over many decades and today is one of Australia’s leading branded food exporters, with approximately 2,000 employees and operations in 11 countries.

 

SunRice is a great place to work, providing a real opportunity for passionate people to make a difference.

 

 

About the role

 

SunRice is progressing an enterprise-wide transformation program in support of our 2030 Strategy. Following our upgrade to SAP S/4HANA, the next phase will focus on unlocking greater capability from our technology, simplifying how we work and creating more consistent processes and experiences across our sites and functions.

 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to bring multiple transformation streams together into one connected and well-governed program. Reporting to the Transformation Director, you will integrate business process simplification, SAP functional implementation and organisational change, guiding initiatives from mobilisation through to implementation, transition and benefits realisation.

 

This is a visible, hands-on leadership role that combines strategic oversight with disciplined delivery. You will connect interdependent workstreams, provide constructive challenge and give senior leaders clear visibility of progress, risks and decisions.

 

Key responsibilities will include:

 

• Develop and lead an integrated program plan connecting business, process, data, technology, security, change and training.
• Guide delivery across design, build, testing, deployment, transition and stabilisation.
• Establish effective governance, stage gates and decision-making disciplines.
• Own program-level risks, issues, dependencies and decisions, escalating early with clear options and recommendations.
• Partner with business process owners and SAP functional leads to translate strategic priorities into practical, testable solutions.
• Drive process simplification and standardisation across multiple sites while balancing operational and local business requirements.
• Oversee fit-to-standard design, data readiness, security and user profiles, controls, cutover, hypercare and transition to business ownership.
• Coordinate internal teams, implementation partners, vendors and specialist resources to support successful delivery.
• Provide clear reporting, insights and recommendations to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Embed change, communication, training and adoption throughout delivery, while building capability across project managers and workstream leads.

 

About You

 

You are an experienced transformation and program delivery professional who can operate effectively across a complex, multi-site organisation. You move confidently between the detail and the bigger picture, bringing structure to ambiguity, challenging plans constructively and communicating clearly with senior leaders.

 

Pragmatic, proactive and people-focused, you understand that successful transformation depends on strong governance, quality delivery and bringing people along through change.

 

 

You will bring:

 

• Significant experience leading complex, enterprise-wide transformation or ERP-enabled programs.
• Strong SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA delivery experience across design, implementation, testing, deployment, cutover and stabilisation.
• Proven program governance capability, including integrated planning, RAID management, financial control, resourcing and assurance.
• Experience integrating multiple, interdependent workstreams within a complex or multi-site organisation.
• A strong track record of driving process simplification and standardisation while balancing operational requirements.
• Confidence presenting program updates, complex information and clear recommendations to executive stakeholders.
• Experience managing implementation partners and vendors, including milestones, deliverables, commercial obligations and change control.
• A strong understanding of organisational change, business adoption and capability uplift.
• Experience within FMCG, food, manufacturing, agribusiness, supply chain or another operationally complex environment will be highly regarded.
• Exposure to SAP Activate, data migration, master data governance, security and role design, integrations or business reconciliation would be advantageous.

 

 

All correspondence will be dealt with in strict confidence.

 

SunRice is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SunRice will consider qualified applicants for employment based on their merit, individual skills, qualifications and other appropriate criteria relevant to the role for which they are applying.