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Lead project capability and governance across a national food manufacturing business. Sugar Australia has an opportunity for an experienced PMO Lead to join our team at our Yarraville VIC site on a full-time permanent basis. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how we plan, govern, and deliver key business and capital projects across Sugar Australia. This role is critical in building project management capability, embedding frameworks, and ensuring projects aligned to our business plan are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and within governance. As the PMO Lead, you will oversee the organisation-wide project portfolio and uplift project management maturity across the business. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, project managers, and functional teams to establish consistent governance, reporting, tools, and ways of working that enable successful project delivery. In addition, you will provide oversight across capital and non-capital projects, support effective prioritisation and resourcing, and partner with Finance and Engineering to ensure strong financial control, benefit realisation, and delivery discipline.
Job Responsibility:
Developing and maintaining the project portfolio, ensuring alignment to our balanced business plan and strategic priorities
Partnering with senior leaders and functional teams to define, prioritise and align projects to our business plan
Embedding and governing Stage-Gate and Front-End Loading processes, ensuring high-quality project documentation and controls
Establishing and improving project management frameworks, methodologies, templates and reporting standards
Uplifting project management capability across the business through coaching, training and best practice guidance
Coordinating and facilitating governance meetings including Steering Committees, Gate Reviews and Control Groups
Monitoring project performance to ensure timelines, budgets, risks and benefits are effectively managed
Partnering with Finance to track project budgets, forecasts, risks, opportunities and benefits realisation
Supporting post-project reviews and continuous improvement of project delivery practices
Identifying and addressing project delivery risks, helping to get projects back on track when needed
Supporting contractor administration related to engineering and project delivery
Requirements:
Minimum 5 years’ experience in project coordination or PMO related roles, ideally within manufacturing, engineering or industrial environments
Tertiary qualification in Business, Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline (preferred)
PMP or similar project management certification (desirable)
Demonstrated experience working within structured project management frameworks (e.g. Stage-Gate, FEL)
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior leadership level
Financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting and benefits tracking
Experience supporting change management and project communications
Proficiency in project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Excel or similar
Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across a diverse project portfolio
A collaborative, proactive and solutions-focused working style
Nice to have:
PMP or similar project management certification
What we offer:
Competitive salary and benefits package, on-site parking and exclusive corporate discounts
Health and wellbeing programs, regular social events, and employee recognition initiatives
Opportunities for career development and ongoing learning
A friendly and collaborative culture, grounded in community values
Access to our extensive product library – perfect for those with a passion for baking