The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our Delivery Management team at AIA on a 12-month basis in either Sydney or Melbourne. Reporting to the Practice Manager, we are seeking a claims-focused project leader with strong data migration expertise to drive complex transformation initiatives within the insurance setting. The successful candidate will lead large and/or multiple business projects to deliver key outcomes, while managing internal and external teams, both onsite and offshore, throughout the project lifecycle.

To do this successfully you will:

Managing and delivering large scale tactical and strategic projects that span one or multiple lines of business to enable AIA Australia to deliver its business plan

Develop detailed business cases from feasibility, design through to implementation and closure

Develop detailed financial budgeting incorporating resource planning from project plans

Design and develop strategies & processes, in consultation with, stakeholders, team members and business consultants, to support implementation of project

Strong enterprise stakeholder management, ensuring appropriate collaboration, communication and change champion engagement for successful delivery and implementation of project

Plan and manage internal and external project resources to ensure delivery of project outcomes to time

Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously

Lead and manage distributed delivery execution team onsite and offshore

Present status updates, Business Cases, funding/resource requests and required governance artefacts to the relevant committees as required Successful applications will demonstrate:





Recent experience working as a hands-on Senior Project Manager ideally in insurance or financial service

Ability to lead and inspire people to deliver exceptional outcomes and to drive a performance culture

Direct exposure to claims delivery or transformation

Proven experience working with Executive & Senior Management on developing and implementing strategic initiatives

Previous experience in contract/vendor negotiations and management

Able to apply any of multiple delivery disciplines that is best suited to execution strategy of project or program (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) Why choose AIA:

At AIA, we’ve made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives. And it starts with our own people.

Access our training and development to build on your current skills

Career development through internal mobility opportunities

Work for a business helping millions of Australians and make a difference to someone’s life everyday

Access additional leave days a year to recharge and refresh yourself

Enjoy wonderful Health and Wellbeing initiatives that support you

Work with supportive and inclusive managers At AIA Australia, we’re proud to help guide, support and protect the wellbeing of over 3.5 million Australians. As part of the AIA Group - the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group – it is our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030. Lots of companies like to say they’re different.

What makes us truly different at AIA, is the difference we make in people’s lives. We are proud that this difference has been recognised in the 2024 ANZIIF awards by being named Life Insurance Company of the Year AIA is different. Are you?

If you want to be part of an organisation that helps people live better every single day, apply via the link.

📌 Senior Project Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 AIA Australia
📍 Melbourne