About Facto
Facto is a growing Australian IT consultancy specialising in business transformation, technology enablement, and strategic advisory services. We partner with clients across a range of industries to deliver complex change programs and drive measurable outcomes. Our consultants are trusted experts who thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments.
Contract Details
- Duration: 6 months contract
- Location: Hybrid working, min 2 - 3 days in the office
Role Overview The Senior Technical Project Manager actively owns and operates integrated plans, dependencies, risks, and delivery outcomes, working directly in the detail with teams and partners to resolve issues, manage trade-offs, and maintain momentum in a heavily regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of multi-year, multi-workstream technology Projects.
- Lead delivery of major initiatives, adapting governance, cadence, and depth of hands‑on engagement to match regulatory risk, scale, and delivery criticality
- Lead project mobilisation and top-down planning, translating business outcomes and strategic intent into an executable delivery model, workstreams, integrated roadmap, milestones, critical path, resource requirements and delivery governance.
- Lead and coordinate the delivery of technical teams across multiple geographies, ensuring alignment, effective collaboration, and consistent execution against program objectives
- Support development of an integrated master plan including milestones, dependencies, and critical path.
- Drive disciplined management of scope, schedule, cost, risks, and issues with clear escalation paths.
- Ensure delivery readiness through structured checkpoints (design readiness, build readiness, cutover readiness).
- Lead delivery discussions in governance forums, steerco meetings, and executive reviews, bringing first‑hand insight from active Project execution and framing clear options, risks, and trade‑offs for decision
- Provide independent challenge and decision support on delivery trade-offs, sequencing, and investment choices.
- Act as delivery continuity and escalation lead, representing the Director where required and ensuring momentum, decision quality, and alignment across initiatives during periods of change or absence.
- This role is not a PMO or coordination position; success requires direct ownership of plans, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
- Actively manage and resolve cross-project dependencies across Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, and Technology portfolios.
- Own resolution of sequencing conflicts and resource bottlenecks, driving agreed mitigations directly into integrated delivery plans.
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with site leadership, Engineering, Ops, Quality, and IT.
- Translate complex technical delivery topics into concise, executive-level communications.
- Produce quality present steerco packs and present to executive levels
- Embed consistent delivery standards across projects through direct application on active initiatives, not by policy definition alone.
- Embed scalable governance rhythms aligned to the operating model.
- Leverage data, automation, and AI-enabled reporting to improve foresight and execution confidence.
Required Skills &
Experience
- Demonstrated experience delivering large-scale, complex technology solutions across multiple domains (enterprise applications, cloud, manufacturing systems), with end-to-end delivery responsibility from planning through to cutover and stabilization.
- Demonstrated aspiration and capability to grow beyond a single‑project remit, taking on broader delivery leadership,
coaching responsibility, and enterprise‑level problem solving over time.
- Proven experience leading complex systems integration programs involving multiple enterprise, manufacturing and technology platforms, with accountability for managing
- cross-system dependencies, interfaces, data flows, integration testing and end-toend delivery across internal teams, vendors and systems integrators.
- Strong capability in managing high levels of ambiguity and complexity, translating loosely defined strategic intent into executable plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and outcomes.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to operate credibly with senior executives, site leadership, and functional leads.
- Demonstrated strength in executive-level communication, including the ability to:
- Articulate complex technical issues in explicit, business-focused language
- Frame options, risks, and trade-offs to support timely decision-making
- Challenge constructively while maintaining trust and alignment
- Experience operating in a consulting or professional services environment, including:
- Delivery of fixed-price or outcome-based engagements
- Strong financial and commercial discipline (scope control, change management, margin awareness)
- Managing client expectations and contractually bound deliverables
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, stepping into detail when required while maintaining an enterprise and portfolio-level view.
- High emotional intelligence, resilience, and adaptability when working across cultures, time zones, and seniority levels.
- Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, or related field.
- 10+ years’ experience in technical project or program management in complex environments.
- Strong experience with Jira, Confluence, and modern delivery toolsets.
- Strong working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
📌 Senior Technical Project Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Facto
📍 Sydney