Senior Siebel Technical Project Manager

About the Role:

Leading the delivery and governance of complex ICT initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and aligned to business outcomes. The project manager will manage project schedules, risks, issues, budgets and stakeholder relationships while coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams and vendors.

Primary Duties:

1. Plan, coordinate and deliver complex ICT projects, ensuring outcomes are achieved within agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality requirements.
2. Develop and maintain project plans, reports, risks, issues, dependencies and decision registers to support effective governance and oversight.
3. Build and maintain productive relationships with business areas, technical teams, vendors and senior executives to support successful project outcomes. Manage multidisciplinary teams and contractor resources, allocating work, monitoring performance and fostering a collaborative delivery environment.
4. Deliver informed recommendations on project priorities, technical solutions, risks and opportunities
5. while promoting improvements to project management practices and delivery frameworks.

 

Skills and Experience Required:

• 1.Financial management

Monitors and maintains financial records to agreed requirements for compliance and audit. Assists with identifying and calculating process, service, project and component costs for financial planning and budgeting. Collates required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision-making.

• 2.Organisational change management

Develops the change management approach and a change management plan in collaboration with sponsors, users and project teams. Creates and implements action plans to ensure everything is ready for the change before going live. Acquires change management resources and develops their capabilities to deliver the required changes. Gathers feedback to allow timely improvements to the change management plan and approach. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Develops and communicates tailored change management plans for senior stakeholder groups. Provides guidance and makes suggestions to support change sponsors.

• 3.Project management

Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects. Provides effective leadership to the project team. Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools. Manages the change control process and assesses and manages risks. Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and delivers regular and accurate communication to stakeholders. Ensures project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure. Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are formally accepted, by appropriate stakeholders. Monitors costs, times, quality and resources used and takes action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

• 4.Requirements definition and management

Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity. Contributes to selecting the requirements approach. Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements. Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.

• 5.Stakeholder relationship management

Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups. Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables. Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders. Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding. Facilitates business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information.

 

Location and Contract Term: This role can be based in QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW or SA. Up to a 12 month contract with 24- month contract extension options pending budget and delegate approval. 

Security Requirements: Applicants must be Australian Citizens and hold a baseline security clearance.

How to Apply: Applications close 17 November.

Please upload your resume to apply. Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks

Please note you may need to complete selection criteria to complete this application process. We will be in touch with instructions for suitably skilled candidates

Call Kelly 0480 002 457  or email kelly@whizdom.com.au for any further information