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Microsoft Senior Consulting Project Manager - Public Sector 
Australia 
787482899

07.01.2025

This a client facing role and requires minimum 50% working on client site.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 3+ years' experience in project management
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Public Sector Experience.
  • Azure Fundamentals AZ900 Certification
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Strong business acumen, stakeholder management experience, and knowledge of Microsoft tech stack are also required.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 8+ years' experience in project management
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience with Azure cloud computing
  • Azure level 300 – 400 Certification.
  • 4+ years financial management experience.
  • Agile certification, Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification.
Project Delivery Management
  • Drive and maintain customer obligations throughout the delivery lifecycle, including envisioning, solution development, delivery planning, cloud consumption, and usage.
  • Lead or participate in steering committee meetings with strategic customers to discuss delivery progress.
  • Identify blockers to consumption goals and enable customers to get the full value of their purchases.
  • Collaborate with Sales to support contract setup, signature, compliance, and execution.
  • Manage fiscal responsibilities within the project portfolio, ensuring budget adherence and engagement profitability.
  • Support relationships with key stakeholders to ensure service delivery is on track and issues are managed proactively.

Intellectual Property (IP)

  • Research and share intellectual property (IP) proactively, providing recommendations for improvement and submitting new IP.
  • Hold team members accountable for reusing appropriate IP and collective knowledge by enforcing the use of processes and artifacts.

Relationship Development

  • Engage with customer stakeholders to develop partnerships, leveraging broad technical expertise.
  • Manage escalations or ensure resolution of escalations with customer stakeholders through tailored corrective action and overcome ambiguous situations as needed.
  • Leverage project sponsors and internal network to influence stakeholders and resolve situations.
  • Drive customer satisfaction by engaging with customer stakeholders positively, reviewing and analysing customer feedback, and leveraging trusted relationships with key internal resources to act as the voice of the customer.
  • Manage expectations with political sensitivity by leading Success Expectation discussions with customers and documenting, executing, and monitoring through customer and partner experience (CPE).
  • Adhere to project compliance standards and requirements of the contract, accommodating customer compliance standards, including managing compliance-related complexities.
  • Champion compliance by contributing to knowledge sharing across teams to build compliance capability of others.

Initiation

  • Drive project initiation for medium complexity projects by delivering a workstream within a larger project/program, assigning resources, and creating work breakdown structures (WBSs) with the delivery team.
  • Balance needs across projects in challenging situations and collaborate with other groups on integrated planning and organization of onshore/offshore projects.

Contracting

  • Facilitate the contracting process for customer and partner resources by briefing partners, coordinating partner candidate interviews, and identifying and acclimating partner resources to the team.
  • Support negotiation and structuring of fixed-fee subcontractor contracts and monitor processes such as Amendments, Delivery Acceptance, Proof of Delivery, and Invoicing.

Presales

  • Contribute to pre-sales for medium-impact projects by articulating the business value proposition and considering associated complexities and risks.
  • Participate in the review of proposed scope and assist in developing Statement of Work (SOW), Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs), estimates, and preliminary risk assessments.

Planning

  • Develop detailed project management plans for medium complexity projects, aligning with customer plans and ensuring predictable delivery.
  • Establish clear expectations and accountabilities with project team members and stakeholders through internal and external kick-off meetings.
  • Engage a broad set of internal and external stakeholders, including those impacted by project scope/outcome, and involve subject matter experts in planning activities.

Monitoring and Controlling

  • Orchestrate and oversee a broad range of project metrics on midsize to large projects with high visibility.
  • Proactively manage risks and issues within projects, leveraging technical knowledge and previous experience to evaluate risks and create risk management plans.
  • Ensure timely completion and quality of deliverables by applying quality management techniques and using analyses to identify solutions to systemic issues.
  • Manage finances for projects with mid-size to large scopes and budgets by balancing funding and resources across workstreams.
  • Manage stakeholder communications on project health, issues, and financial performance throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Closure

  • Drive timely project closure by ensuring completion of project sign-off tasks and reflecting on and sharing lessons learned across teams.
  • Apply advanced knowledge across project management principle areas to execution and delivery, serve as a mentor to less experienced colleagues, and participate in cross-border mentoring and peer alignment.

Business Growth

  • Demonstrate accountability for the financial health of a project or program, identify opportunities to accelerate and drive consumption and delivery, and own and drive backlog risk management.
  • Look for or create opportunities to maximize timely cloud consumption through current deliveries and identify new opportunities with customers.