Principal Portfolio Delivery Manager

Principal Portfolio Delivery Manager

• Full time fixed term role (12-month contract)
• Geelong office location with flexible hybrid working
• Offering a competitive base salary of circa $185000 plus super and benefits

Grow your career by supporting real progress

Right now were seeking a Principal Portfolio Delivery Manager who will continue to play their part in caring for the lives of everyone on Victorias roads. Someone committed to supporting the progress of our clients and your colleagues so they can achieve great things. Thats truly rewarding work that will help us continue to deliver life-critical services where it matters.

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About the role

The Principal Portfolio Delivery Manager plays a critical leadership role in overseeing the successful delivery of a portfolio of strategic transformation programs across the organisation.

Working closely with Program Managers senior leaders and executives you will guide delivery at a portfolio level balancing value risk and capacity while ensuring strong governance and visibility of progress benefits and issues. You will also play a key role in identifying and managing cross-program dependencies risks and opportunities enabling informed and timely decision-making.

Leading a team of Program and Project Managers you will foster a high-performance collaborative culture ensuring teams are supported aligned and focused on delivering outcomes that drive meaningful enterprise-wide impact.

About the Team

This role sits within the Enterprise Transformation division which is responsible for delivering TACs most significant strategic and transformation initiatives. The division brings together business digital change and delivery expertise to enable sustainable enterprise-wide outcomes that optimise client experience employee experience and community impact.

The culture is one of trust accountability and continuous improvement where leaders are empowered to take ownership of their delivery space while partnering across the organisation to achieve shared outcomes.

What were looking for

Portfolio Delivery & Governance Expert

You bring extensive experience managing complex program portfolios within large-scale transformation environments. You have strong expertise in portfolio governance performance reporting and benefits realisation with the ability to provide a clear consolidated view of progress risks and outcomes to support executive decision-making.

Strategic Leader & Decision Maker

You are a strategic thinker with strong judgement able to balance competing priorities and make informed trade-offs between value risk and capacity. You have a proven ability to manage interdependencies across multiple programs optimise resource allocation and ensure alignment to enterprise priorities.

Collaborative Influencer & People Leader

You build strong relationships across executive business and delivery teams influencing outcomes through collaboration and clear communication. You are an experienced people leader who develops high-performing teams fosters accountability and creates a culture of continuous improvement and shared success.

Take the next step in your career. Apply now.

Click apply to submit your Cover Letter and Resume. If successful youll progress to an interview. All applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application.

For more information read the attached Position Description or contact Hannah Egan ET Talent & Workforce Planning Partner at for a confidential discussion. Applications for this role will be accepted up until 11:55pm on Sunday 19^th April 2026.

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Were committed to the health safety and wellbeing of employees. This extends to inclusion diversity and accessibility in our employment practices and encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people people with disability men women and gender diverse people culturally diverse and LGBTIQA people to apply for roles.

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A current TAC employee is eligible to apply for another position at TAC if:

1. The employee has been in their current position for at least 12 months; and
2. Has attained at least a competency 2 (for job groups 1-5); and
3. Is not currently on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)

Please note labour hire staff who are employed by a recruitment agency to work at the TAC will be eligible to apply.