Senior Project Manager (12 month FTC)

What you'll do

• Lead the planning, implementation, and delivery of projects on time, on budget and to the desired quality and scope.
• Facilitate the definition of scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Develop fit for purpose project management plans and approaches (including agile, iterative and waterfall).
• Work alongside the Project Leads, to assemble project teams from internal and external resource pools as required.
• Report on the progress of projects including risks and issues/problems and solutions at regular intervals.
• Contribute to the growth and improvement of the project teams and colleagues. Provide coaching and development for more junior members of the Projects team, and lead by example.
• Develop or contribute practices, templates, and other relevant artefacts to shared libraries to enable beautiful project practice 
• Contribute to ongoing process and practice improvement ideas and initiatives to support the ongoing improvement in our ways of working
• Role model what world class delivery looks like and respectfully challenge when the business veers from this path.
• Embrace and champion the project(s) assigned and drive the delivery of change to a high standard.
• Be able to manage concurrent pieces of work and prioritise the effort on each according to organisational priorities in discussion with the GM Projects/Project Leads
• Establish and maintain strong communications with all teams at Xero.
• Maintain a balanced perspective by building relationships and interacting with relevant internal and external stakeholders. 
• Work across the spectrum of project delivery activity from coordination to management, owning the outcome.
• Work closely with stakeholders to transition project deliverables into BAU.
• Develop repeatable processes where practicable to increase efficiency in project delivery.
• Clear and concise escalation of any complex risks or issues.

What you'll bring

• 6+ years demonstrated experience leading and delivering multiple projects.
• Experience working with security related projects
• Demonstrated experience leading complex projects and cross functional teams to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience with maintaining and improving project financial processes including managing and tracking budgets
• Project management certification is an advantage (PMI, PRINCE 2, AgilePM or similar).
• Relevant infrastructure, data and application development, business process, business change or GTM subject matter expertise / demonstrated experience.
• Agile/iterative and waterfall approaches.
• Web/online/cloud/SaaS experience.
• Understanding of business processes, structures and organisations.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Demonstrated vendor management.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong commercial acumen. 
• Experience working with senior leaders, demonstrated experience preparing / reporting to C level.

What success looks like

• Project scope, goals and the delivery plan for projects are clear, concise and complete.
• Project teams have a clear understanding of the scope and definition of projects and their deliverables.
• Modelling project management best practices and behaviour.
• Consistently displaying leadership behaviour within the team and throughout the business.  
• Cultivating and maintaining strong, mutually beneficial, relationships across the business.
• Successfully managing strategically important projects.
• Projects are delivered on time, within budget and to expected quality.
• Contribution and participation in company values, culture, and wider team.
• Exceptional stakeholder feedback.