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 lead the delivery of strong project governance and disciplined execution across Vicinity Centres. The role applies and embeds enterprise delivery frameworks, tools and capabilities, partnering with business leaders to drive oversight and decision making. The role contributes to improved ways of working by leading and supporting continuous improvement opportunities, structured reviews of initiatives and activities, and the delivery of programs focused on business effectiveness and efficiency. Success in this role requires strong stakeholder engagement, a continuous improvement mindset, and the ability to influence across functions and levels of the organisation to build maturity in project execution and strategic alignment.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise project management frameworks and capability

• Apply and embed enterprise-wide project management frameworks, tools and processes to drive consistent delivery discipline, transparency and maturity
• Enable consistent use of delivery disciplines through coaching, guidance and hands on support to project and initiative teams
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project and program management practices by identifying improvement opportunities and providing practical feedback and insights

Project delivery oversight, governance and support

• Provide targeted delivery oversight to support prioritisation, informed decision making and effective governance
• 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

• Lead and contribute to reviews of organisation wide initiatives to assess strategic alignment, prioritisation and overall impact
• Translate review findings into practical recommendations and initiatives that improve organisational effectiveness and efficiency

Delivery of priority projects and programs

• Lead and support the end to end delivery of select projects aligned to Vicinity’s strategic priorities
• Oversee delivery outcomes to ensure initiatives achieve intended benefits, commercial outcomes and stakeholder expectations
• Manage interdependencies, risks and delivery trade offs, escalating issues as required
• Partner with senior leaders to translate review outcomes into practical, executable improvement initiatives

Key Role Relationships

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

Capability and Experience

Essential Experience (what you have done)

• Demonstrated experience scoping, managing and delivering complex, end to end programs in a consulting or corporate environment, with clear consideration of scope, milestones, dependencies, financials, risks and outcomes
• Proven experience contributing to and delivering organisational efficiency and effectiveness reviews, translating insights into measurable business outcomes
• Experience diagnosing, redesigning and embedding improved business processes using structured, pragmatic approaches, with consideration of automation and technology enablement
• Experience delivering sustainable change through effective governance, communication, training and process

Critical Knowledge (what you need to know)

• Tertiary qualifications in Commerce, Law, Engineering or similar

Capabilities (what you can do)

• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to assess value and risk, identify root causes, synthesise insights and support informed decision making
• Highly effective communication, influence and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage across multiple levels and functions of the organisation
• Strong commercial acumen, including an understanding of business cases, cost benefit analysis, value drivers and benefits realisation
• Pragmatic and solution focused, with the ability to apply fit for purpose approaches aligned 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.