Dependency Management Consultant

Accenture; Ballarat; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Arrangements

18 weeks parental leave

Career development program

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Dependency Management Consultant in Ballarat, Australia. You will identify, manage and resolve cross‑stream dependencies to ensure coordinated delivery across programs and vendors.

The role requires proactive risk handling, clear reporting to leadership, and close collaboration with PMO and delivery leads. You will partner with program leadership to support integrated planning, sequencing, and readiness, ensuring dependencies feed into schedules and release plans.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in dependency management within large-scale programs or complex delivery environments.
• Strong background in program delivery, PMO, or project coordination.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including experience working with senior leaders.
• Ability to translate complex delivery information into clear, actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Identify, document, and manage end-to-end dependencies across multiple workstreams, releases, and delivery phases.
• Maintain a consolidated dependency register with clear ownership and status tracking.
• Proactively resolve dependency clashes and timing constraints that may impact milestones.
• Partner with Program Leads, PMO, and Stream Leads for integrated planning and delivery readiness.
• Ensure dependencies are factored into delivery schedules, cutovers, and release plans.
• Identify dependency-related risks and issues early and drive mitigation actions.
• Provide regular dependency status reporting to program leadership and governance forums.

Skills

dependency management

program delivery

stakeholder engagement

clear communication

Job description

About Accenture

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Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

About the Role

The Dependency Management Consultant is responsible for identifying, managing, and resolving delivery dependencies across complex, multi‑stream programs. This role plays a critical part in ensuring coordinated execution, proactive risk management, and predictable delivery outcomes by maintaining strong alignment across business, technology, and vendor teams.

Working closely with Program Leadership, PMO, Workstream Leads, and external partners, the Dependency Management Lead provides visibility of cross‑stream impacts, drives timely decision‑making, and enables effective sequencing of work across the delivery landscape.

Key Responsibilities

Dependency & Cross‑Stream Management

• Identify, document, and manage end‑to‑end dependencies across multiple workstreams, releases, and delivery phases.
• Maintain a consolidated dependency register , ensuring clear ownership, sequencing, and status tracking.
• Proactively resolve dependency clashes, conflicting priorities, and timing constraints that may impact delivery milestones.

Planning, Coordination & Execution

• Partner with Program Leads, PMO, and Stream Leads to support integrated planning , milestone alignment, and delivery readiness.
• Ensure dependencies are factored into delivery schedules, cutovers, and release plans.
• Support scenario analysis and impact assessments to inform delivery decisions.

Risk, Issue & Impact Management

• Identify dependency‑related risks and issues early, assess impacts, and drive mitigation actions.
• Escalate critical dependency risks with clear options, impacts, and recommendations.
• Contribute to integrated risk and issue management processes across the program.

Governance & Reporting

• Provide regular dependency status reporting to program leadership and governance forums.
• Produce clear, concise insights to support executive decision‑making.
• Ensure dependency management activities align with PMO standards, governance frameworks, and delivery controls.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong working relationships with internal teams, vendors, and client stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted coordination point to facilitate collaboration and alignment across delivery teams.
• Support a disciplined, outcomes‑focused delivery culture.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven experience in dependency management within large‑scale programs or complex delivery environments.
• Strong background in program delivery, PMO, or project coordination roles.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including experience working with senior leaders.
• Ability to translate complex delivery information into clear, actionable insights.

Desirable

• Experience in government, defence, or highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, or waterfall delivery approaches.
• Experience working in multi‑vendor or partner‑led delivery models.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and structured thinking skills.

Additional Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirement : Given the secure nature of this role, we are seeking candidates who are Australian Citizens with an active security clearance.

Why Join Us?

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative work environment that values your growth and well-being. As a part of our team, you will enjoy:

• Benefits of working at Accenture:
• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities.
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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