Project Lead

Avanade
Sydney
Full timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Facilitation","Negotiation","Executive communication","Risk management"]

Lead Microsoft-focused system integration engagements from mobilisation through completion, accountable for client outcomes, delivery performance, commercial control, and stakeholder confidence. Own end-to-end delivery across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, dependencies, and benefits. Establish governance, manage contract and change control, and oversee project budgets and financial performance. Lead multidisciplinary, distributed, and third-party teams using Agile, Hybrid, or Waterfall delivery approaches.

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Avanade
Avanade
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Project Lead

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Job Summary

Lead Microsoft-focused system integration engagements from mobilisation through completion, accountable for client outcomes, delivery performance, commercial control, and stakeholder confidence. Own end-to-end delivery across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, dependencies, and benefits. Establish governance, manage contract and change control, and oversee project budgets and financial performance. Lead multidisciplinary, distributed, and third-party teams using Agile, Hybrid, or Waterfall delivery approaches.
Location: Sydney
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own delivery outcomes across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, dependencies, and benefits from mobilisation to completion.
  • •Mobilise engagements by translating contractual commitments into an integrated delivery plan, governance model, resource plan, and delivery controls.
  • •Lead Agile, Hybrid, or Waterfall delivery approaches and drive timely decisions while resolving delivery blockers.
  • •Manage contract and change control, including translating contractual commitments into delivery controls and preparing change requests.
  • •Own project budgets and financial performance (revenue, cost, margin), monitor sold-versus-delivered performance, and manage commercial exposure.

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience leading enterprise consulting, technology, or business transformation engagements.
  • •Accountability for project scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and client outcomes.
  • •Strong understanding of consulting delivery and governance in professional services environments.
  • •Experience managing contracts, Statements of Work, deliverables, assumptions, client obligations, and change control.
  • •Strong commercial and financial management capability, including forecasting, margin management, and estimate-to-complete.
Skills:Stakeholder managementFacilitationNegotiationExecutive communicationRisk management
Certifications:PMPPRINCE2 PractitionerCertified ScrumMasterPMI-ACPITIL Foundation
Tech Stack:Microsoft Dynamics 365Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRMMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Finance and OperationsPower PlatformDataversePower BIAzure DevOpsAgileWaterfallHybridSystem integrationData migrationTestingDeployment

Company Brief

Avanade
Global digital innovation and IT services company delivering Microsoft-based cloud, digital and application services. Partners with enterprises to design, build and run business solutions across cloud, data, AI, modern workplace and industry-specific transformations.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2000
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