Job Description

We're reimagining the way Australians live, work, and play. We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia.

We’re evolving our portfolio into destinations that offer a broad selection of retail, residential, and office spaces. Through our diverse portfolio, data-led decision-making, and nationwide development pipeline, we do things differently.

We are Vicinity.

Role purpose

The purpose of this role is to support the delivery of strong project governance and disciplined execution across Vicinity Centres through high‑quality analysis, insight generation and delivery support. The role applies enterprise delivery frameworks, tools and processes to assist project and initiative teams, and supports informed decision‑making through clear insights and structured outputs. The role contributes to improved ways of working by supporting continuous improvement initiatives, structured reviews of programs and activities, and the delivery of projects focused on business effectiveness and efficiency. Success in this role requires strong analytical and process improvement capability, clear communication, curiosity, and the ability to work collaboratively across business functions.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise project management frameworks and capability

• Apply enterprise wide project management frameworks, tools and processes to support consistent delivery discipline, transparency and reporting
• Assist with targeted delivery support on critical or underperforming initiatives, including analysis to support recovery planning and realignment of scope, schedule, risks and outcomes
• Work closely with initiative owners and delivery leads to support governance processes, clarify actions and track issue resolution

Project delivery oversight, governance and support

• Support delivery oversight through preparation of governance materials, status reporting and analysis to inform prioritisation and decision‑making
• Lead targeted intervention on critical or underperforming initiatives, supporting recovery plans and realignment of scope, schedule, risks and value outcomes
• Partner with initiative owners to strengthen governance, clarify accountabilities and resolve delivery issues

Strategic alignment and enterprise efficiency reviews

• Support reviews of organisation wide initiatives by conducting analysis, supporting workshops/ working sessions, data collection and synthesis to assess strategic alignment, prioritisation and impact
• Assist in translating review findings into practical recommendations and improvement opportunities that enhance organisational effectiveness and efficiency

Delivery of priority projects and programs

• Support the end-to-end delivery of projects aligned to Vicinity’s strategic priorities through analysis, coordination and delivery support activities
• Track delivery progress, risks, interdependencies and benefits, escalating insights and issues where appropriate
• Manage interdependencies, risks and delivery trade offs, escalating issues as required
• Summarise and translate review outcomes into clear documentation, actions and plans

Key Role Relationships

• Business Unit Leadership Teams
• Strategy & Corporate Finance Team
• Group Financial Planning and Analysis Team
• Technology Teams
• Project and Initiative Owners/ Teams

Capability and Experience

Essential Experience (what you have done)

• Experience supporting project or program delivery in a consulting or corporate environment, including exposure to planning, reporting, risks and dependencies
• Experience contributing to organisational efficiency or transformation initiatives through analysis, research or delivery support
• Experience analysing and documenting business processes, with exposure to process improvement, automation or technology‑enabled change
• Experience supporting change initiatives through documentation, communication materials, training support or governance processes

Critical Knowledge (what you need to know)

• Tertiary qualifications in Commerce, Law, Engineering or similar

Capabilities (what you can do)

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to structure problems, analyse data, identify root causes and synthesise insights
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise verbal and written presentations
• Commercial awareness, with exposure to business cases, cost benefit analysis or performance metrics
• Pragmatic and solution focused, with the ability to apply fit for purpose approaches and adapt to organisational context and maturity

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES (who you are)
You consistently demonstrate and role model the behaviours that bring the Vicinity values to life:

Respect:

• We listen to and acknowledge each other's views
• We have difficult conversations with care

Integrity:

• We back our words with the right actions
• We do the right thing, no matter the situation

Customer Focus:

• We nurture a genuine connection with our customers
• We consider customer needs when making decisions

Collaboration:

• We invite the right people to the table
• We balance consensus with decisive actions

Excellence:

• We always strive to improve
• We share our challenges and celebrate the wins
  

Why Vicinity?

Our benefits program focuses on creating an awesome place to work in which our people are rewarded and recognised. This includes:

• Flexible working options

• Birthday leave & purchased additional leave

• $1,000 worth of VCX securities rewarded for eligible team members

• Generous Parental Leave

We live and work by our values of Respect, Integrity, Customer Focus, Collaboration and Excellence. They are the foundation to everything we do and provide us a north star with which we can shape meaningful places where communities connect.

At Vicinity we embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where we attract, retain and develop our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

We are aware of current limitations with our website accessibility and are working towards improving this. Should you experience any issues accessing information in this job advertisement or the application form, and require this in an alternate format, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team. Similarly, if you would like to discuss workplace accessibility, any reasonable adjustments we can make to better support you during the recruitment process, or your potential future role please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team:

Email: talent.acquisition@vicinity.com.au

Phone: +61 3 7001 4000 (request to speak to our Talent Acquisition team)

Note: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have existing, relevant Australian work rights. At the later stages of the recruitment process the shortlisted candidate/candidates will be required to undergo a Criminal History Background/Police Check as a mandatory part of the process. Additional qualification checks may also be required dependant on role and level.