Principal Ways of Working Lead

XPT Software; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software in Melbourne, Australia, is seeking a Principal-level leader to establish and drive the Ways of Working function, championing continual program-wide improvements for greater effectiveness and efficiency.

The role reports to the Program Director and focuses on mapping value streams, driving an improvement backlog, and ensuring successful changes are embedded into the organisation’s Ways of Working. Melbourne-based leadership is required.

Qualifications

• Led agile or lean ways of working transformation at program or portfolio scale with measured results.

Responsibilities

• Baseline flow metrics: cycle time, throughput, work in progress, dependency wait and predictability.
• Map the program value stream to find where work waits.
• Run a prioritised improvement backlog as measured experiments with program leadership.
• Write successful changes into the RegistryConnect Ways of Working.
• Transfer the function to an ASIC lead before exit.

Skills

Agile Transformation

Lean Transformation

Program Leadership

Job description

Purpose: establish and lead the Ways of Working function and champion ongoing improvement in program effectiveness and efficiency.

Seniority: Principal.

Reports to: Program Director.

Responsibilities

• Baseline flow metrics: cycle time, throughput, work in progress, dependency wait and predictability.
• Map the program value stream to find where work waits.
• Run a prioritised improvement backlog as measured experiments with program leadership.
• Write successful changes into the RegistryConnect Ways of Working.
• Transfer the function to an ASIC lead before exit.

Essential

• led agile or lean ways of working transformation at program or portfolio scale with measured results.

Desirable

• scaled agile frameworks; flow metrics tooling; government delivery environments.