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You’re an experienced delivery leader who thrives at the intersection of people, partnerships, and pace. You know how to hold the shape of complex digital work – keeping partners engaged, teams focused, and delivery on track – while also lifting your eyes to the horizon to spot what’s coming next. You’ve led people across a range of levels, and you know that great delivery is fundamentally about great leadership. You’re equally comfortable supporting a junior team member through a tricky moment as you are pushing back constructively with a senior stakeholder. Fast-paced environments energise you rather than exhaust you – and you’ve got the stories to prove it. You’ll lead a number of team members within a multidisciplinary delivery team, play a meaningful role in winning and shaping engagements, and contribute to a practice that genuinely cares about the impact of what it builds.
Job Responsibility
Support your team through active project delivery – tracking progress, managing risks, and keeping engagements on time and on budget across multiple concurrent workstreams
Review scopes and statements of work, identifying dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines before the work kicks off
Run one-on-ones and support your team members through the challenges and growth moments that come with doing complex, meaningful work
Lead or contribute to scoping and estimating for proposals, bringing delivery rigour to the business development process
Attend resourcing and leadership meetings, helping allocate work effectively and advocating for your people
Engage directly with partners and stakeholders – managing expectations, building trust, and navigating the tough conversations when needed
Ensure project retrospectives happen, and that learnings flow back into how the team works
Contribute to Portable’s broader delivery practice – sharing knowledge, helping refine how we work, and making us collectively better at what we do
Requirements
5+ years in digital project or product delivery, with a track record of successful end-to-end delivery
Proven people leadership experience across a range of levels – from early-career team members to experienced seniors
Strong commercial instincts – comfort with scopes, budgets, estimates, and the relationship between delivery and revenue
Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience navigating senior or complex partner relationships
Comfort with ambiguity and pace – you can create focus and momentum in a fast-moving environment
Experience working in agile, multidisciplinary environments
Experience in an agency or consultancy setting
Product management experience or familiarity with product thinking
What we offer
Meaningful work with impact: We take on projects that aim to make a positive difference in areas like mental health, social justice, and accessibility
Flexible work arrangements: We support a flexible working environment—whether it’s from home, the office, or a café—with remote and hybrid options (up to 3 days per week), flexible hours, and personalised start/finish times
Enhanced leave benefits: Enjoy bonus annual leave based on tenure, the option to purchase additional leave, paid volunteering leave, and paid mental health days as personal leave with no explanation or medical certificate required
Growth and career development: We offer structured career pathways, an annual professional development allowance of $1,000 and two working days, access to our Emerging Leaders program, annual salary reviews, and ongoing leadership coaching for those ready to step up
Wellbeing support: Through our Employee Assistance Program with The Mindroom, our team can access up to 4 counselling sessions per year, with support for general wellbeing, career planning, and managing life’s challenges
Financial incentives: Team members are eligible for a profit-sharing bonus and can explore employee share plan options, as well as salary sacrificing
Family-friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental leave and support part-time arrangements that work around family commitments, such as school drop-offs and caring for sick loved ones