Lead Project Manager — Data, Migration & Analytics

News Corp; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

News Corp Australia is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the Data, Migration & Analytics streams as part of a major technology transformation. This hybrid, 12-month contract role focuses on delivering data migration, analytics capabilities, and reporting across the subscription ecosystem, coordinating technology, data, analytics, architecture, product and vendors.

Responsibilities include managing readiness, validation, cutover, and post-launch support, while ensuring data quality

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex data migration and analytics programs in large enterprise environments.
• Ability to lead stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams across technology, data, analytics, architecture, product and business units.
• Structured, pragmatic, commercially minded with the judgement to identify risks early and solve complex delivery challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data, Migration & Analytics streams end-to-end, owning the delivery plan, milestones, dependencies, critical path, risks, and governance across a major enterprise transformation.
• Drive complex data migration and reporting activity from legacy platforms into the future-state subscription ecosystem, spanning customer, subscriber, subscription, billing, product, and entitlement data, alongside reporting and analytics capabilities.
• Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across technology, data, analytics, architecture, product, business teams, and external vendors to bring clarity and momentum to complex dependencies.
• Own migration readiness, analytics validation, and cutover, leading data profiling, mapping, reporting design, testing, reconciliation, migration rehearsals, go/no-go decisions, and post-launch hypercare.
• Turn complexity into confident decisions, providing senior stakeholders with clear visibility of risks, trade-offs, progress, and outcomes while ensuring data quality, analytics integrity, and customer experience remain protected.

Job description

News Corp Australia is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the Data, Migration & Analytics streams as part of a major technology transformation. This hybrid, 12-month contract role focuses on delivering data migration, analytics capabilities, and reporting across the subscription ecosystem, coordinating technology, data, analytics, architecture, product and vendors.

Responsibilities include managing readiness, validation, cutover, and post-launch support, while ensuring data quality