Job Description
Contract Length: 12 months initial contract
Working model: Hybrid - 3 days per week in the Parramatta office and 2 days Work From Home
About the Client & Opportunity
Our client is a prominent NSW Government state-owned corporation responsible for delivering essential water, infrastructure, and environmental services to millions of customers across Greater Sydney.
Dedicated to agility, sustainability, and innovation, the organisation is embarking on a significant enterprise transformation to modernise its asset management capability.
We are seeking a highly accomplishedProgram Managerto lead the initial shaping phase of a business-led transformation program.
Positioned within the Finance & Commercial group, this role focuses on two critical initiatives: defining the broader transformation roadmap across people, process, technology, and data, and establishing the readiness pathway for an enterprise Maximo platform upgrade.
Key Accountabilities
Program Delivery & Leadership:Direct and lead a cross-functional team of 5–10 direct and indirect project professionals, driving program governance, resource coordination, and delivery under an Executive Program Board.
Strategy to Execution:Translate strategic blueprints and holistic target state designs into actionable, staged plans aligned with broader organizational portfolio objectives.
Business Case Development:Lead the formulation of robust business cases, benefit realization frameworks, and future investment sequencing, presenting clear and evidence-informed options to senior leadership.




Platform & Capability Readiness:Establish the core readiness pathway for a major Maximo platform upgrade, ensuring alignment across interdependencies, risks, and functional requirements.
Stakeholder & Vendor Alignment:Engage, influence, and negotiate with senior stakeholders across engineering, operations, digital, and finance, effectively challenging assumptions and resolving delivery risks.
Change & Adoption:Drive change management strategies that embed new systems, processes, and ways of working to ensure sustainable business adoption and value realization.
Candidate Profile & Experience
Seniority:10+ years of qualified experience leading complex, large-scale enterprise transformation or business solution programs.
Industry Context:Deep domain expertise in infrastructure management, enterprise asset management, and asset/utility environments (prior government experience isnotmandatory).
Systems Experience:Direct experience in asset lifecycle management systems, strategy setting, case writing, and platform readiness (Maximo platform experience is highly regarded).
Executive Communication:Exceptional skill in writing high-level business cases, board papers, and engaging with formal assurance reviewers.
Qualifications:Tertiary qualifications with recognized Program Management certifications (e.g., PgPM, MSP, PMP).




10+ Years Enterprise Program Leadership:Demonstrated track record of managing high-profile, complex business transformation programs within utilities, infrastructure, transport, energy, or asset-intensive environments.
Systems & Asset Management Expertise:Proven expertise in infrastructure management, asset management frameworks, and functional systems experience across the asset lifecycle.
Platform Transformation & Readiness:Demonstrated experience establishing execution and readiness pathways for major enterprise asset management platform upgrades (specific experience with IBM Maximo is highly regarded).
Strategic Direction & Roadmap Development:Proven ability to set strategic direction and translate holistic transformation blueprints into executable roadmaps encompassing people, process, technology, and data.
Business Case & Executive Writing:Superior business case writing and board-level communication skills, with demonstrated experience preparing transparent, evidence-informed investment cases and engaging with assurance reviewers.
Complex Stakeholder & Governance Management:Advanced stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills, with a proven capability to drive decision-making across Executive Boards, Steering Committees, operations, and third-party delivery partners.
Change Leadership & Methodologies:Formal certifications in program management (PgPM, MSP, PMP) combined with demonstrated capability in driving organizational change, process adoption, and transition to target operating models.
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📌 Program Manager - Enterprise Asset Management (New South Wales)
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📍 New South Wales