This is an exceptional opportunity to join one of the world's leading cloud infrastructure providers. As they continue to rapidly expand their APAC digital footprint, they are seeking a highly strategic and data-driven Program Manager to spearhead pre-construction and front-end planning operations.

Based in North Ryde on an initial 12-month contract, you will bridge the rap between pre-construction planning and delivery execution. You join the technical review process across delivery and construction, ensuring all hyper-scale projects maintain a complete, accurate, and actionable risk profile throughout their lifecycle.

This role requires a unique blend of construction planning governance, risk modelling, commercial acumen, and stakeholder orchestration across a global matrix environment.

Key responsibilities:

Strategic Oversight & Pre-Construction Governance

- Lead and manage the technical review process across delivery and construction, ensuring teams complete inputs, consolidate risk data, and meet agreed SLAs.
- Define and enforce Front-End Non-Negotiables across regional project delivery teams.
- Review pre-construction schedules and coordinate with infrastructure stakeholders to ensure full colocation (COLO) alignment with updated planning specs.
- Support planning teams in benchmarking net-current projects to establish baseline delivery durations across the APAC portfolio.
- Partner with global central teams to develop scalable, end-to-end front-end processes, defining risk-register structures and RACI ownership models.

Commercial Alignment & Project Handover

- Partner with Commercial teams during pre-construction to ensure NRC/NTE (Non-Recurring Costs / Not-to-Exceed) considerations are fully incorporated into delivery planning.
- Track costs, contracts, design, schedules and commercials to baseline the end-to-end program before executing a seamless handover to Delivery Technical Program Managers (TPMs).
- Keep pre-construction project data meticulously updated,



aligning dates from multiple sources and tracking downstream changes.

Data, Metrics & Reporting

- Drive data-backed decision-making by consolidating cost, planning and delivery metrics to improve portfolio visibility.
- Partner with global analytics teams to embed standardised risk codes into reporting frameworks to support historical trend analysis and predictive risk modelling.
- Develop and maintain executive-level dashboards covering risk management, commercial performance procurement and delivery health metrics.
- Contribute to key colocation hold points, assessing risks and defining the clear pathway to Ready For Service (RFS).

To be successful in this highly visible role, you will bring:

- Infrastructure Experience: A proven track record in program management or project controls within large-scale data centres, hyper-scale cloud infrastructure or complex telecommunications/civil construction environments.
- Pre-Construction Expertise: Deep understanding of front-end planning, Colocation (COLO) provider models, Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) gap analysis and project benchmarking.
- Data & Analytics Savvy: Strong capability in building reporting frameworks, tracking delivery health metrics and utilising predictive risk data.
- Commercial & Risk Acumen: Familiarity with managing project commercials (NRC/NTE) and driving strict governance SLAs.
- Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, global central groups and regional APAC leadership.

In this role, you will influence the foundational planning of world-class cloud infrastructure in a collaborative, high-performance culture with a flexible hybrid working environment, offering long-term contract stability with a global technology giant.

Based in the head office in North Ryde, some hybrid working flexibility will be offered. Start asap

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.

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🏢 Randstad
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