Program Manager

Let’s create a more sociable future together. At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

Be uniquely you, come as you are.

18 Months Fixed Term Contract

Sydney or Melbourne Location

Reporting to the Specialty and Support Head of Optimisation Retail & Support, the Program Manager will drive the establishment, development, and end-to-end delivery of a high-impact portfolio of store and support optimisation initiatives across the group.

In this strategic, hands-on role, you will champion process improvements that actively challenge the cost of doing business identifying and valuing key opportunities while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to align productivity models and achieve performance targets against budgeted metrics. Operating with high autonomy in a fast-paced yet collaborative environment, you will inspire, coach, and upskill project teams and business partners in best practices, ensuring successful delivery of the team’s work plan while building sustainable capability for the future.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Lead the discovery across the business landscape to identify opportunities and develop a pipeline delivered by the program team.
• Successful and sustainable delivery of people, process and system changes across multiple business units and brands.
• Manage projects within the program to time, budget and quality.
• Manage dependencies and project integration.
• Accountable for establishing and delivering business benefits against business cases.
• Manage and report on project costs, including expenditure and expected future cost outlay to realise benefits.
• Gaining and sustaining confidence of business customers in facilitating decisions that involve inter-functional trade offs and risks.
• Managing competing demands of business units without the resources to satisfy all simultaneously.
• Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, constraints, assumptions and dependencies.
• Expeditious escalation of relevant issues via appropriate stakeholders and governance forums.
• Create and execute program plans and evaluate trade-offs between program size, complexity, cost and stakeholder value.
• Understand program level dependencies and business impacts to support decisions on prioritisation and sequencing of projects.
• Partner with business sponsors to define objectives and key results.

Qualifications:

• Experience in establishing Transformation and Business orientated programs of work.
• Experience in delivery utilising Agile and or Waterfall Methodologies.
• Project Management Certification (Prince 2 / PMP).
• 6 years or more experience in a Project Management role.
• Extensive knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
• Led successful and sustainable implementations of transformational and business orientated programs.
• Planning, problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to work through issues with complexity and guide others in the resolution of problems.
• Graduate, bachelor degree as a minimum.
• Strong coaching skills.
• Must have or willing to obtain RSA & RCG.
• Travel interstate and within state required.
• Trained in Lean Six Sigma Methodology (Green or Black Belt).
• Previous agile/scrum experience preferred not mandatory.
• Demonstrated Leadership experience.
• Good business acumen and horizontal collaboration capability.

The benefits are good too!

• We offer hybrid ways of working.
• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands.
• Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W.
• As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career.

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.

If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.