At Versent, as a Program/Project Manager, you will lead complex, high value projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring alignment with business strategy, stakeholder expectations, and organisational standards.
This role requires strong leadership, exceptional communication skills, and deep expertise in project management methodologies.
Must be an Australian citizen with security clearance and currently residing in Australia.
Responsibilities
Lead end‐to‐end delivery of large, complex, or high‐risk projects, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria with key stakeholders.
Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, resource allocations, and governance requirements.
Provide clear and consistent communication to stakeholders, sponsors, and executive leaders.
Facilitate decision‐making, issue resolution, and alignment across cross‐functional teams.
Mentor and support project team members to foster collaboration and high performance.
Identify, track, and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies, with timely escalation where required.
Manage change requests, assessing impacts and ensuring appropriate approvals and communication.
Ensure compliance with organisational governance frameworks, standards, and regulatory obligations.
Conduct post‐implementation reviews, capturing lessons learned and applying continuous improvement.
Implement and promote project management best practices, tools, and methodologies.
Drive efficiency, innovation, and improvement in delivery processes and project outcomes.
Proven record of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
Experience and Qualifications
7–10+ years' experience delivering complex, large‐scale projects in enterprise environments.




Proven ability to lead cross‐functional teams and manage senior stakeholder groups.
Demonstrated success delivering technology, transformation, or business‐change initiatives.
Strong financial management capability, including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
Deep knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid).
Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
High proficiency with project tools such as MS Project, Jira, or similar.
Strong analytical, problem‐solving, and strategic planning abilities.
Tertiary qualification in Business, Technology, or a related discipline (preferred).
Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or Scrum Master (highly regarded).
Life at Versent
We're a diverse team of motivated humans who think outside the box and strive to deliver what others might consider impossible.
At Versent we truly care about our people and put real focus on cultivating a culture of learning, collaboration and growth.
We provide our teams with the space, trust, and support, to deliver the best work of their careers.
To enable this, we have a culture that places a high value on continual feedback, excellence, and invention anchored in customer success.
We also understand that you might not fulfill all the criteria for this position.
Our celebration of diverse perspectives isn't just a value, it's a way to gain an edge.
Benefits




Flexibility: We give you the freedom to excel, providing as much autonomy and flexibility around when you work so you can manage your time in a way that best suits you to get the job done.
Learning: We are passionate about continuous improvement and care about you investing in and developing your craft.
Our Craft 180 Program is a holistic strategy for ongoing, meaningful skill and capability development with an ultimate goal to create an environment where people can learn and contribute in different ways to develop, practice and become masters of their craft.
Access to Benefits That Fit Your Life: From salary packaging and purchased leave to novated leasing options, we offer a range of benefits designed to suit different lifestyles and priorities.
There's something for everyone.
Health & Wellbeing Programmes: We focus on you as a whole person, with wellbeing initiatives that are to support you mentally, physically, emotionally and financially.
Connection: Regular social activities across your team and the organisation.
Recognition: We offer several reward & recognition programmes to acknowledge the amazing work that you do!
Career prospect: We provide the opportunity to work on diverse projects and initiatives that enable you to create a brilliant career.
Versent is a leading technology consultancy.
We exist to architect, build and operate cloud-native applications, data streams, platforms, and services.
We work with customers to transform their business' through technology, in ways they never imagined.
Australia's leading businesses and top technology companies choose to partner with us because of our deep expertise, unwavering integrity and dedicated focus on ensuring our customer success.
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