About the role – Full-time, 12-month fixed term contract
Be part of our transformation journey and join us as Senior Delivery Lead and help shape the digital banking experience that powers our members every day.
Lead the delivery of large, complex strategic initiatives that drive meaningful transformation and value across the organisation. Partner closely with Product Owners and senior stakeholders to turn strategy into outcomes, while enabling high-performing, self-organising teams to deliver with quality, pace and impact. This is an opportunity to shape how change is delivered across a major transformation portfolio while mentoring and uplifting delivery capability.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the delivery of large and complex strategic initiatives within a program/value stream, ensuring prioritised backlogs and technical projects are delivered with quality, pace and measurable business value.
- Partnering closely with the Product Owner and business stakeholders to translate strategy into delivery outcomes, ensuring initiatives drive value creation, business adoption and successful value realisation.
- Creating high-performing, self-organising delivery teams by mentoring delivery resources, removing blockers, and fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and delivery excellence.
- Driving end-to-end project execution including planning, sprint/iteration management, dependency coordination, risk and issue management, and deployment activities across Agile, Waterfall or hybrid environments.
- Building strong executive and stakeholder relationships, maintaining transparent communication with business owners, program leadership and sponsors on progress, risks, financials and outcomes.
- Ensuring disciplined governance and financial oversight, managing budgets, forecasts, quality controls and cross-program dependencies to optimise delivery outcomes across the broader change portfolio.
About you
You will succeed in this role if you have:
- Extensive project delivery experience with a proven track record managing large, complex strategic initiatives within enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise across Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery methodologies, with the ability to adapt approaches to maximise delivery outcomes.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the confidence to work closely with Product Owners, executives and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to lead and mentor delivery teams, fostering high-performing, self-organising teams and promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset, comfortable navigating complexity, managing competing priorities and removing delivery blockers.
- Sound financial and governance capability, including managing budgets, forecasts, risks, issues and dependencies across multiple initiatives.
- Experience delivering change within financial services or similarly regulated environments, with an understanding of business, technology and operational interdependencies.
- A proactive, delivery-focused mindset, committed to driving quality outcomes, business adoption and measurable value realisation.
Location
Whilst our primary office locations are in Adelaide and Brisbane, we are pleased to be able to consider applications from employees within Australia for this role. We also encourage you to put thought into how the work may be undertaken given your location and what support you may require.
Why you’ll love working with us:
People First Bank – our new brand – says exactly what we’re all about: people. We're committed to supporting and growing our team and creating an outstanding work environment.
You’ll have access to financial and lifestyle benefits to support your success and individuality:
- Flexibility and hybrid working arrangements.
- Enhance your salary with discounts on banking, health insurance, and shopping across Australia.
- Advance your career with training, study support, and project opportunities.
- Competitive leave benefits that empower employees to take time for themselves and loved ones.
- Wellbeing support with our Employee Assistance Program, wellbeing leave, mental health app, and mental health ambassadors’ program.
- Make a difference with paid volunteering, Workplace Giving, and diverse community initiatives.
- Be recognised for your contributions through our peer-driven recognition program.
A bit about People First Bank:
In March 2023, People’s Choice and Heritage Bank merged to form Heritage and People’s Choice Limited - Australia's leading mutual bank. We are now on an exciting journey to bring together our products, services, and technology under a single brand - People First Bank.
We have over 700,000 members and 1,900 employees, with dual head offices in Adelaide and Toowoomba, an Australian-based contract centre and branches across five states.
With a vision ‘To deliver positive change through banking’, People First Bank serves members and contributes to the community, while offering an inclusive, flexible work environment. We’re big enough to make an impact; but agile enough to influence and do interesting work.
Apply online now:
If this sounds like you, this could be the next step in your career. Click 'Apply' now and submit your application, including a cover letter and current resume by COB Tuesday, 24th March 2026.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion and support candidate requests for adjustments to enable everyone to equitably participate in our selection process.
