AECOM in Canberra are looking for an experienced a Principal Project Manager who is interested in working within an amazing Project and Program Management team.

This role sits within our ‘Construction Management’ team, which involves representing our clients best interest on site on infrastructure projects.  You will oversee the delivery of construction works and ensure progress is in line with design standards.

This senior role presents an opportunity to help achieve transformational outcomes for our clients, working with global experts to address the complex infrastructure challenges of a transitioning economy and growing region.

Founded by industry experts, DigiRen focuses on helping large commercial and public sector organisations build and scale new capabilities and ways of working to realise the benefits of new and emerging technologies leveraging the power of public cloud.

With decades of combined experience, we know that for large-scale organisations to fully leverage new technologies, they need to adapt their enterprise IT operating model and build new internal capabilities—embedding the use of the new technology, tools, and processes, and scaling new ways of working across the business.

DigiRen is vendor agnostic but has deep experience and understanding of hyperscale cloud technologies. We anchor our engagements on the orchestration of change and the delivery of strategic customer outcomes. As trusted advisors, we help our customers build new organisational capabilities, become self-sufficient, and take control of their journey.

DigiRen operates a flat, highly collaborative, and supportive working environment. Our focus on people drives our company culture. We are an inclusive team that nurtures our people for the long term. We value diversity of experience and anyone who can drive outcomes that deliver value to our customers; DigiRen is a community that enables great work and accelerated learning.

Overview

We are seeking a dynamic General Manager to drive the growth of our Canberra practice. This senior leadership role requires a candidate who excels in advisory, consulting, business development, customer acquisition, and people management.

In this role, you will be responsible for building the practice in Canberra through the acquisition of new customers, hiring and developing a local team of specialist consulting professionals, managing team utilisation, and delighting our customers every day through high-quality delivery execution. 

You will build strong relationships with our customer's senior technical and business stakeholders, work well in ambiguous situations, formulate direction and coach, mentor, and lead customer resources and external delivery partners through the engagement and program life cycle. 

An ideal candidate for this senior leadership role will have experience and expertise in:

1.      Leadership & Team Building: Proven track record in building and leading technology consulting and delivery teams. Highly analytical with a knack for distilling value for customers. Enjoys being customer-facing and is willing to roll up their sleeves to deliver.

2.     Maintaining Delivery Excellence: Committed to maintaining high standards across all engagements. Capable of leading and building the business while ensuring consistent quality.

3.     Consultative Approach: Demonstrated history of using a consultative approach to assist customers. Proven experience and track record in technology consulting firms, with a focus on advisory.

4.     Cloud Transformation Expertise: In-depth understanding of enterprise-scale cloud transformation programs gained from working on large-scale public cloud projects.

5.     Industry Knowledge & Network: Experience working with Federal Government and meaningful connections across Canberra.

At DigiRen, you will join an inclusive and welcoming team of technology leaders who are among the best in the business.

Responsibilities

As a General Manager and leader at DigiRen, you will have core responsibilities to help build the business:

Geography Ownership: Define, implement, and own the strategy for the Canberra practice. Own the customer engagement lifecycle for the practice, from sales through to resource management and successful delivery of customer outcomes.

Lead Customer Engagements: Deliver high-quality execution and delight our customers daily. Lead customer resources and external delivery partners through the engagement and program lifecycle.

Ensure Delivery Excellence: Build and foster an internal culture of collaboration, maintain a high-quality bar, and provide each team member with a platform to perform exceptional work and exponentially develop their skills and careers.

Improve Market Positioning and Partnerships: Establish the DigiRen brand within the geography, driving brand awareness and capturing mindshare with key executive personas and stakeholders. Establish and grow key local partnerships.

Strengthen Advisory & Consulting Frameworks: Strengthen and enhance our advisory methodologies and artefacts. Contribute to thought leadership and be a visible leader in the market.

Build Our Business: Build the practice across Canberra by acquiring new customers and fostering strong relationships with senior technical and business stakeholders.

Manage the Team: Hire, develop, and manage a local team of specialist consulting professionals. Ensure high team utilisation and maintain a high quality of work.

• Extensive career experience as a leader in IT advisory and consulting, cloud computing, IT strategy and delivery, specifically working on large-scale public cloud programs.
• People management experience in an enterprise technology context performing matrixed leadership in complex environments.
• Experience delivering real outcomes for technology programs in an external consulting role within the public sector in Canberra.
• C’ level presence with excellent written and verbal communication skills, including group leadership and executive presentations
• Based in Canberra, with the ability to travel to other locations within Australia if required.
• Minimun NV1 AGSVA security clearance, with an NV2 highly regarded.

DigiRen is an equal opportunity employer.  We passionately believe that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.  We provide highly competitive remuneration and a range of additional benefits.

Your New Role

We have an opportunity to support a multi-year program to the Australian Defence Force working as a Relationship Manager/Process Analyst.

The role primarily focuses on working with the customer, managing relationships and mapping out their processes. A love for working onsite, embedded with the customer is key to success in this role. There is no opportunity to work remotely.

Other aspects of the role:

• Define and document user problems, needs and/or enhancements opportunities.
• Capture and model current and planned business processes.
• Conduct user liaison for ICT activities including software development.
• Coordinate and manage engagements with relevant stakeholders, including support teams, end users, and other involved in business analyst activities.
• Provide feedback on areas for improvement within existing business processes, and support Organisational Change Management. 
• Contribute to, improve, and enable delivery and escalation processes.
• Support Change Management activities and the transition of solutions into production and operational use.
• Develop plans, procedures, work instructions, manuals and other technical documentation for use by target staff.

Your Career

As a Channel Business Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the success of our Tier 1 Partners in Australia. You will take ownership of the Channel Engagement  and collaborate with peers to cultivate relationships with select partners to drive growth in alignment with the company's strategic objectives.

Your Impact

• Build a joint growth business plan with key strategic partners
• Create the national strategy and manage interstate engagements
• Establish strategic Executive alignment between PANW Executives and Partner Executives
• Serve as an integral part of the channels and alliances team, closely aligned with the regional sales leaders and other stakeholders, becoming a trusted channel advisor
• Collaboratively define partner GTM plans and objectives to enhance reach, efficiency, and execution
• Drive greater adoption of our use cases and sales strategies
• Organize Partner EBC’s collaborating with supporting functional teams
• Build and manage pipeline with strategic partners 
• Contribute to the development of partner programs 
• Create Marketing events  tailored for your partners customers 
• Define the reseller financial proposition and train field resources on best practices to foster field relationships
• Set regional and district focused bookings and pipeline goals for each partner
• Establish strong alignment with Sales, Pre Sales and Consultants within your partners  and measure return on investment - eg Solutions offerings created, Platform adoption
• Create compliant partner incentives
• Consistently promote priorities and programs to key partners at the executive level for increased productivity
• Demonstrate the ability to scale with Tier 1 partners through collaboration with regional sales leaders

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development across Infrastructure projects to site based construction of individual projects, while helping the largest companies in the world. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use. 

In a Cost Manager role, you will have knowledge in:

• Develop cost estimates from drawings and specifications.
• Manage contracts across the lifecycle of the project. 
• Conduct estimate assurance reviews and associate report writing.
• Leading the Cost Management team across a variety of different projects in Real Estate, Defence and Infrastructure. 
• Displaying excellence in service delivery leadership.