Senior Manager Portfolio Pipeline

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Transport for NSW invites a Senior Manager Portfolio Pipeline to lead end-to-end delivery and project controls across a complex PD&E portfolio in a full-time onsite role at Macquarie Park. You’ll provide strategic oversight of Tier 1 programs, embed standardised delivery practices, govern risks and interdependencies, and deliver portfolio-wide performance visibility to executive leadership while guiding multi-disciplinary teams in a matrix environment and driving continuous improvement. To apply, showcase a proven record of delivering large-scale programs, strong end-to-end project controls, and the ability to balance governance with business outcomes; quantify impact, demonstrate senior stakeholder engagement, and cite enterprise PPM tool experience and relevant certifications. Apply by 26 June 2026; for details contact Karen Lister.

You want to play a part in making NSW a better place to work, live and travel.

You're passionate about public service and ready to lead a team of professionals, share your expertise and guide decision-making to help shape the future of our State.

In this role, you'll:

This is a senior leadership opportunity responsible for driving end-to-end delivery leadership and project controls capability across a complex portfolio of programs and projects within Transport for NSW, operating in the PD&E environment.

You will provide strategic oversight across large-scale Tier 1 programs and multi-disciplinary initiatives, ensuring projects are effectively planned, coordinated, governed, and delivered in alignment with organisational priorities and enterprise delivery standards.

The role combines portfolio delivery leadership with deep project controls expertise, ensuring strong integration across all key controls disciplines including planning, scheduling, risk, cost, governance, and performance reporting. You will work closely with program and project leadership, enabling functions, and technical teams to ensure delivery is structured, predictable, and aligned to business outcomes.

You will drive consistency in delivery practices, embedding standardised methodologies, governance frameworks, and assurance processes across the portfolio. A key focus will be ensuring that risks, issues, and dependencies are proactively identified, managed, and clearly communicated to senior leadership.

Working across a dynamic and highly matrixed environment, you will coordinate cross-program dependencies and sequencing, enabling effective prioritisation and minimising delivery conflicts. You will also provide portfolio-wide visibility of performance, risks, and interdependencies to support informed executive decision-making.

The role requires strong leadership of multi-disciplinary teams (direct and indirect), fostering collaboration, accountability, and a high-performing delivery culture. You will also drive continuous improvement of delivery practices, controls, and tools, uplifting delivery capability and maturity across the organisation.

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.

About you

You are an experienced senior leader with a strong track record delivering complex programs and portfolios within large-scale environments, ideally across Tier 1 projects or major transformation initiatives.

You bring extensive experience across end-to-end project controls disciplines, with the ability to apply structured delivery approaches while maintaining flexibility in dynamic environments.

You have proven capability leading multi-disciplinary teams, both direct and indirect, within matrix organisations, aligning teams toward common objectives and ensuring consistent delivery outcomes.

You are highly organised and capable of operating autonomously with authority, balancing competing priorities while maintaining accountability for delivery performance and outcomes.

You have strong understanding of project, program, and portfolio management methodologies, supported by relevant certifications and experience working with enterprise PPM tools.

You are an influential communicator with the ability to engage and advise senior executives, translating delivery performance, risks, and insights into clear and actionable recommendations.

You bring strong commercial and strategic awareness, with the ability to balance governance, delivery performance, and organisational priorities.
With a pragmatic, structured, and outcomes-focused approach, you are passionate about driving delivery excellence, strengthening project controls capability, and enabling successful outcomes across Transport’s most complex programs and portfolios.

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