Job Description

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.

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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.

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

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Key responsibilities:

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Strategic Oversight & Pre-Construction Governance

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

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- Partner with Commercial teams during pre-construction to ensure NRC/NTE (Non-Recurring Costs / Not-to-Exceed) considerations are fully incorporated into delivery planning.
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- 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).
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- Keep pre-construction project data meticulously updated,



aligning dates from multiple sources and tracking downstream changes.
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Data, Metrics & Reporting

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

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- 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.
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- Pre-Construction Expertise: Deep understanding of front-end planning, Colocation (COLO) provider models, Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) gap analysis and project benchmarking.
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- Data & Analytics Savvy: Strong capability in building reporting frameworks, tracking delivery health metrics and utilising predictive risk data.
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- Commercial & Risk Acumen: Familiarity with managing project commercials (NRC/NTE) and driving strict governance SLAs.
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- Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, global central groups and regional APAC leadership.
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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.

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

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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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📌 Program Manager (Ryde)
🏢 Randstad
📍 Ryde