Job Description

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18th September, 2026 n

Senior Project Manager
Contract Length : 6 month renewable
Location: Sydney or Melbourne
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Key Responsibilities

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- Own and manage the transition of IT Service and IT Operations including code repository handover and process transfer
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- Design, schedule, and run structured knowledge-transfer sessions between outgoing and incoming delivery partners
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- Define and scope the transition workplan where documentation or handover artifacts are incomplete or non-existent
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- Engage with stakeholders to capture lessons learned in previous migrations
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- Build and maintain strong working relationships across onshore and offshore teams, and across incumbent/incoming vendors
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- Support the delivery team's shift toward quarterly (QTR) release cycles
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- Manage delivery using both Agile and Waterfall approaches as required by the workstream
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- Track and report on transition progress using Jira and Confluence
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- Proactively challenge existing ways of working
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About You n
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- Proven Senior PM experience delivering large-scale enterprise technology transformation, ideally with exposure to system migrations, vendor transitions, or build-to-run handovers
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- Experience managing multi-vendor delivery (incumbent-to-incoming transitions) is highly desirable
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- Strong stakeholder and relationship-building skills — able to build trust quickly with onshore and offshore teams and multiple vendors
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- Proactive, solutions-oriented self-starter, comfortable operating with ambiguity and limited handover documentation
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- Confident challenging established practices and driving process improvement in a less mature delivery setting
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📌 Senior Project Manager - Build to Run Transition (New South Wales)
🏢 Pathway Search
📍 New South Wales