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Search suburb or city: West Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3003
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Company: Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
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- Optimise the flow of work across portfolios, programs, projects and Waterfall and Agile Release Trains
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- Influence senior leaders across Lifeblood and remove systemic barriers to delivery
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- 12-month secondment prospect, National Teams Enterprise Agreement: SP3
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About the role
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Reporting to the Director Delivery Excellence, the Head of Enterprise Delivery & Flow will lead an integrated approach across Agile Release Trains (ART), Waterfall projects, programs and portfolios. A key priority across the next 12 months will be developing and mobilising a sequenced roadmap that removes delivery constraints, improves flow and creates greater consistency across Lifeblood business units.
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Operating across the entire enterprise, you will navigate enterprise trade-offs, connect teams and introduce meaningful measures to track improvement. Leading four direct reports and a community of Scrum Masters, you will bring the credibility, empathy and momentum needed to guide people through change and deliver shared outcomes.
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Key Responsibilities:
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- Embed a cohesive enterprise delivery strategy that accelerates current delivery and creates a future-ready model
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- Develop and mobilise a sequenced roadmap to progressively improve enterprise delivery
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- Lead an integrated delivery approach across ARTs, projects, programs and portfolios
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- Improve end-to-end flow, visibility and coordination across business units and delivery teams
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- Identify and remove systemic constraints, risks and dependencies affecting delivery outcomes
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- Establish consistent delivery principles, standards, governance and ways of working
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- Align ART planning cycles with long-term portfolio roadmaps and strategic priorities
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- Navigate competing priorities, capacity constraints and enterprise-level trade-offs
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- Introduce meaningful measures to track, report and demonstrate delivery improvements
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- Build strong partnerships across business, technology and operations to enable seamless delivery
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- Lead four direct reports and a community of Scrum Masters with clarity, credibility and empathy
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Sound interesting? Here's what we're looking for:
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- Proven extensive experience leading enterprise delivery across Agile and Waterfall environments
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- Strong knowledge of portfolio delivery and enterprise-wide planning, experience developing and implementing practical, sequenced roadmaps for improvement
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- Experience leading and integrating ARTs with program and project delivery structures
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- Strong executive and senior leadership engagement, communication and influencing capability
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- An enterprise mindset, with the judgement to navigate competing priorities and delivery trade-offs
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- A collaborative and empathetic leadership style that creates confidence and valuable outcomes across the team
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- A measurement-focused approach,
with experience tracking and reporting improvements and outcomes
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- Experience operating in complex and regulated environments
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- SAFe SPC certification, with PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent
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We place our employee's well-being at the forefront and express gratitude and care for one another. As an Australian Workplace Equality Index recognised employer and one ofAustralia's menopause-friendly organisations, we celebrate diversity and support all our people.
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In addition to being a part of an organisation that is the heartbeat of the Nation, you will have access to the following:
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- Ability topurchaseadditionalannual leave
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- Access to salary packaging withan optionto package up to $15,900 for living expenses and $2,650 for meals and entertainment
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- 14 weeks paid parental leave - no waiting period for either parent
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- Our dedicated employeeassistanceprogram - Sonder that you can access 24/7 from an app on your phone
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- Plus, many more!
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We're proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer for 2026 and commit to respond to every applicant. You'll hear from us once your application has been reviewed.
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In the mean time if you have questions about this role, or need support or adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us
[email protected] . Our AI careers assistant can help with common questions and connect you with our Talent Acquisition team if required.
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Please note: applications sent directly to this email address cannot be accepted
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This vacancy is being managed directly by Lifeblood's Talent Acquisition team. We won't accept candidates from external recruitment agencies on this occasion.
📌 Head of Enterprise Delivery & Flow (Victoria)
🏢 Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
📍 Victoria