Program Delivery lead

Role: Program Delivery Lead
Location: Victoria Australia
Contract: 8 weeks extension
Experience: 8 years

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Program Delivery Lead and trusted advisor supporting the client executive across strategic and operational initiatives.
• Establish and maintain effective program governance ensuring clear visibility of delivery progress risks dependencies and decision points.
• Prepare executive-level reporting dashboards status updates and steering committee materials.
• Drive program planning scheduling and delivery coordination across multiple workstreams.
• Facilitate workshops planning sessions and stakeholder meetings ensuring actions decisions and outcomes are clearly documented and progressed.
• Maintain and actively manage RAID (Risks Assumptions Issues and Dependencies) registers and ensure appropriate mitigation strategies are in place.
• Coordinate delivery readiness activities to support successful program execution.
• Track and progress actions arising from roadmap development initiative scoping and strategic planning workshops.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to ensure alignment between strategic objectives and delivery activities.
• Identify delivery risks and recommend practical solutions to maintain program momentum.
• Support the definition prioritization and mobilization of future initiatives.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Program Delivery Lead Program Manager or Senior PMO Lead within large enterprise environments.
• Strong background in program governance reporting and executive stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated experience supporting strategic transformation programs from planning through delivery.
• Experience facilitating executive workshops planning sessions and cross-functional meetings.
• Strong knowledge of project and program management methodologies (Agile Waterfall or Hybrid).
• Experience managing RAID logs action registers dependency tracking and program planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare executive-quality documentation.
• Ability to work autonomously while effectively engaging with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• High attention to detail and a proactive outcomes-focused approach.

Desirable Experience

• Experience supporting enterprise transformation or digital transformation initiatives.
• Consulting or professional services background.
• Familiarity with portfolio management roadmap planning and strategic initiative delivery.
• Experience using project and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project Azure DevOps Jira Confluence or Microsoft Planner.

Personal Attributes

• Self-starter with the ability to work independently.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Highly organized with excellent planning and coordination capabilities.
• Commercially minded with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Comfortable working with senior executives and influencing outcomes.
• Able to translate strategic discussions into structured actionable delivery plans.