General Manager - Project Management Office

General Manager - Project Management Office

Full-Time 49500 - 60500 $ / year (est.) Hybrid
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead enterprise transformation and project delivery for a purpose-driven organisation.
  • Company: A respected Australian not-for-profit impacting thousands through essential services.
  • Benefits: Competitive salary, five weeks leave, hybrid work, and salary packaging perks.
  • Other info: Join a dynamic team focused on continuous improvement and impactful outcomes.
  • Why this job: Shape significant organisational change and drive innovation in a pivotal leadership role.
  • Qualifications: 10+ years in transformation, strong leadership, and project management experience required.

The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 $ per year.

About the Company

Our client is a large and highly regarded Australian not-for-profit organisation delivering a diverse range of essential care, community and support services.

With a long and established history, a substantial workforce and operations across multiple service areas, the organisation positively impacts tens of thousands of people each year.

It is currently investing significantly in its future through a major agenda of business, operational and technology transformation.

This creates an exciting opportunity for an experienced transformation executive to join at a pivotal time and influence how strategic investment, enterprise change and innovation are delivered across the organisation.

About the Role

We are seeking an accomplished General Manager - PMO to lead the organisation's enterprise transformation portfolio, project delivery capability, innovation agenda and investment governance processes.

Reporting to a C-suite executive, this highly influential role sits at the centre of strategic decision-making and will partner closely with the Executive Leadership Team, senior leaders and key governance forums to ensure organisational investments are effectively prioritised and deliver measurable outcomes.

The mandate is to evolve the PMO into a trusted enterprise function that enables better investment decisions, strengthens portfolio performance and ensures sustainable benefits are realised from significant transformation initiatives.

  • Leading the enterprise project and transformation portfolio, improving visibility, prioritisation, and accountability.
  • Maturing portfolio management, project governance and delivery capability.
  • Providing strategic advice to executives on investment priorities, portfolio performance, organisational risk and innovation opportunities.
  • Strengthening business case evaluation, investment prioritisation, and benefits realisation.
  • Establishing pragmatic frameworks, methodologies and tools that enable effective project delivery.
  • Driving cross-functional collaboration and strengthening organisational change capability.
  • Leading and developing a capable, engaged, and respected Project Management Office team.
  • Fostering a culture of innovation, optimisation, and continuous improvement.

Success will be demonstrated through stronger alignment between strategy, investment and delivery, improved portfolio visibility and benefits realisation, and greater executive confidence in transformation outcomes.

About You

You are an experienced enterprise transformation and portfolio leader who combines strategic thinking, commercial acumen and strong delivery capability.

You are comfortable operating at executive level while remaining pragmatic and close enough to delivery to understand what is really happening across a complex portfolio.

You will bring demonstrated capability across the five priority areas of enterprise transformation, portfolio leadership, PMO maturity, benefits realisation, and project delivery.

Your background will ideally include

  • 10+ years' experience across business transformation, change management and process improvement.
  • Significant leadership and project/program management experience.
  • Direct experience leading, transforming or maturing an enterprise PMO or portfolio function.
  • Previous experience delivering large and complex transformation programs. Strong portfolio and investment governance capability.
  • Executive-level stakeholder management and experience presenting to Executive Leadership Teams and Boards.
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link investment decisions to measurable operational, financial and strategic outcomes.
  • The ability to influence without relying on authority and build trust across complex stakeholder groups.
  • Relevant tertiary, project management and change management qualifications.
  • The Benefits

This is a rare opportunity to take on a genuine enterprise-wide transformation mandate and shape how a large, purpose-led organisation prioritises investment and delivers significant organisational change.

The offering includes

  • Permanent executive leadership opportunity
  • Competitive base salary plus superannuation
  • Five weeks' annual leave
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
  • Attractive not-for-profit salary packaging benefits
  • Free on-site parking
  • On-site café with staff discount.

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Enterprise Transformation
Portfolio Leadership
PMO Maturity
Benefits Realisation
Project Delivery
Change Management
Process Improvement