15 Nov
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VOCUS
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North Sydney
15 Nov
VOCUS
North Sydney
Are you looking for an awesome place to work, where you can proudly be your authentic self, and be part of #oneteam?
We are looking for a passionate team player who aligns with our values and culture, takes pride in their unique contributions, and can challenge the status quo with disruptive thinking. If this sounds like you, come and join us
The Program Manager role is responsible for the end-to-end leadership of large and complex customer transition and transformation programs comprising multiple related projects, workstreams, technologies, suppliers and delivery partners. The role provides overall accountability for program planning, governance, financial and commercial performance, cross-project dependencies, risk management and customer outcomes, ensuring individual projects and workstreams remain aligned to the objectives and commitments of the broader program.
The Program Manager establishes the overall delivery framework for assigned programs and provides delivery direction across Project Managers, Senior Project Managers and workstream leads. The role maintains an integrated view of program scope, schedule, financials, resources, risks, dependencies and customer commitments, providing transparent visibility of overall program performance and ensuring issues are managed at the appropriate level.
Acting as the senior delivery interface for the customer, the Program Manager builds trusted relationships across senior, executive, technical and operational stakeholders, maintaining alignment between customer objectives, contractual commitments and Vocus delivery activities. The role develops a strong understanding of the customer's business and operating environment to ensure delivery priorities,
decisions and governance remain aligned with customer needs throughout the program lifecycle.
The role also plays a significant part in major pre-sales, bid and tender activities, helping shape delivery strategies, governance models, implementation approaches and transition plans, and providing delivery assurance that proposed customer commitments are practical and achievable.
What You’ll Be Doing
The key responsibilities of the role are listed below.
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of large and complex enterprise customer transition and transformation programs comprising multiple projects, workstreams, technologies, suppliers and delivery partners.
- Establish the overall program structure, objectives, delivery approach, governance model, accountabilities and success criteria.
- Develop and maintain an integrated program delivery plan and critical path encompassing project and workstream schedules, key milestones, dependencies, resource requirements and customer commitments.
- Maintain senior customer engagement throughout delivery, providing clear visibility of program performance, priorities, risks, decisions and emerging concerns.
- Establish and maintain a consolidated view of program risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and delivery sequencing, identifying cross-project impacts and ensuring appropriate ownership, mitigation and escalation.
- Maintain consolidated oversight of program financial and commercial performance, including budgets, forecasts, scope, change and commercial impacts.
- Assess significant scope, schedule, solution or implementation changes for their impact across the broader program, including downstream projects, dependencies, resources, commercial outcomes and customer commitments.
- Ensure implementation and migration activities are effectively coordinated across workstreams, including large-scale site rollouts with varied site requirements, network transformations, service migrations, customer readiness, cutover sequencing and contingency planning.
- Maintain oversight of suppliers, carriers, technology partners and third‑party delivery organisations, managing interdependencies, performance and delivery constraints that may affect individual sites, workstreams or overall program outcomes.
- Lead significant program escalations and recovery activities, applying structured problem solving and sound judgement to restore agreed customer and delivery outcomes.
- Ensure completed projects and workstreams are appropriately integrated, accepted and transitioned into operational support, and that the program is formally closed upon completion of delivery obligations.
Pre-sales, bids and tenders
- Lead the development of program‑level delivery approaches for major and complex opportunities, working with Sales, Solution Architecture, Commercial and delivery teams to establish implementation strategies, governance structures, workstream models, schedules and resource requirements.
- Participate in strategic customer workshops to understand business objectives, operating environments, delivery constraints, organisational readine
📌 Program Manager (North Sydney)
🏢 VOCUS
📍 North Sydney