Associate Director, Portfolio Management

Singtel; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Employee discounts

Flexible working arrangements

Parental leave

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Optus is seeking an Associate Director, Portfolio Management to lead governance, program delivery, and risk management within the Networks domain. You will embed enterprise frameworks and drive excellence across multiple delivery teams in a Tier 1 telecommunications environment.

The role requires deep portfolio expertise, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to influence without authority to achieve strategic outcomes. Hybrid work options available.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Telecommunications with portfolio and project delivery expertise.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to manage complex technical environments.
• Experience embedding enterprise governance frameworks and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio governance, project execution, and delivery disciplines across the domain.
• Establish governance forums, steering committees, and reporting cycles.
• Coach delivery teams to improve portfolio execution maturity.
• Oversee operating planning, prioritisation, and investment categorisation.
• Embed risk management practices and enterprise risk alignment.

Skills

Portfolio governance

Project management

Risk management

Financial management

Influence and execution

Job description

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Every day, millions of Australians connect, work, stream, and stay in touch on the Optus network. When it works seamlessly, it's easy to take for granted. But behind it is a team making thousands of decisions every day - decisions that keep people, businesses and communities connected.

The Associate Director, Portfolio Management leads project execution, capital governance, and risk management within a Networks domain, embedding enterprise frameworks and driving operational excellence. Success in this role requires deep portfolio management expertise, strong commercial and project delivery capability, and experience managing complex technical environments in a Tier 1 telecommunications network.

WhatYou’llDo

• Lead portfolio governance, project execution, and delivery disciplines, embedding standardised methodologies, tools, reporting, and review frameworks across the domain.


• Establish and maintain governance forums, including Steering Committees, portfolio reviews, stage gates, health checks, and performance reporting cycles.


• Coach and uplift delivery teams to strengthen project management capability and continuously improve portfolio execution maturity.


• Lead annual operating planning, prioritisation, investment categorisation, and portfolio execution aligned to Networks-wide objectives.


• Embed robust risk management practices, ensuring proactive identification, mitigation, reporting, and alignment with enterprise risk frameworks.


• Drive capital governance, including investment planning, forecasting, spend management, benefits realisation, and achievement of annual business outcomes.


• Identify and resolve issues for all delivery initiatives within the portfolio as appropriate and act as interface into other domains for driving cross-domain integrated planning and execution.

WhatYou’llBring

• 10+ years of experience in the Telecommunications sector with proven experience in within or supporting network and technology divisions.


• Proven experience in portfolio management, project management, financial management and risk management.


• Extensive problem-solving skills, commercial acumen and Networking technology fluency.


• Ability to influence with and without authority, drive decision making and execution discipline.

The good stuff …

• Competitiveremunerationand employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners.


• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home.


• Competitive leave policies, includingadditional'Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, orwhatever’simportant to you.


• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.


• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.


• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).


• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 — in-person, by phone, SMS, or video.

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.

We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If yourequireany adjustments or accessibility support, please email [e-mail] or call 1800 309 170.We’rehere to help. When you contact us, pleaseadviseyour preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours. For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity .