12-month fixed-term contract | Likely extensions | Iconic Australian organisation
An iconic Australian organisation is seeking an experienced Portfolio Planning Lead to manage the intake, prioritisation and coordination of technology demand across multiple delivery teams.
This is not a traditional Project Manager role. Rather than owning the delivery of one individual project, you will provide portfolio-level visibility and governance, ensuring recent initiatives are properly assessed, prioritised and aligned with available capacity and strategic objectives.

Portfolio Planning Lead

What you'll be doing

- Manage the intake and triage of new technology initiatives and business requests
- Develop and maintain prioritisation frameworks that support informed investment decisions
- Coordinate delivery demand, dependencies and capacity across multiple teams
- Maintain visibility of the delivery pipeline, risks, constraints and competing priorities
- Facilitate portfolio planning, governance and prioritisation forums
- Translate business requirements into clear technology demand
- Partner with delivery, product, architecture and business teams to improve planning outcomes




- Prepare portfolio reporting and recommendations for senior and executive stakeholders
- Identify bottlenecks and support the resolution of cross-team delivery challenges
- Continuously improve demand-management and portfolio-governance processes

What you'll bring

- Strong experience in demand management, portfolio planning, portfolio delivery or product operations
- Demonstrated experience managing intake, triage and prioritisation processes
- Experience with capacity planning and delivery pipeline management
- Strong understanding of portfolio governance and prioritisation frameworks
- Ability to coordinate work and dependencies across multiple delivery teams
- Good technical literacy and the ability to translate between business and technology stakeholders
- Strong relationship management, communication and influencing skills
- Confidence working with senior and executive stakeholdersExperience within a complex enterprise technology environment

This is an excellent opportunity to influence how technology demand is assessed, prioritised and delivered across a large and complex organisation.

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📌 Portfolio Planning Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 Talent
📍 Melbourne