Senior Project Manager - Strategic Initiatives & Transition Office

ANZ Banking Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

ANZ Banking Group in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead strategic initiatives within the Transition Office. You will partner with senior leaders to shape governance, delivery frameworks, and enterprise-wide transition capabilities across locations and vendors.

The role requires strong stakeholder engagement, change-management expertise, and an ability to drive roadmaps, manage dependencies, and deliver value from major initiatives within tight timelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading large scale business and technology change.
• Experience in scoping and developing plans for strategic pieces of work.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to build relationships.
• Strong communication skills in a technical/data driven space.
• Experience in change management and navigating ambiguity.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Willingness to challenge the status quo and innovate.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and functional leaders to identify opportunities.
• Drive design and implementation of transition frameworks, methodologies, tools, standards, and governance processes.
• Manage initiative roadmaps, business cases, delivery plans, risks, dependencies, governance forums, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes with regulatory, risk, compliance, and governance alignment.
• Drive stakeholder engagement, change management, communication, training, and adoption activities.
• Measure and report on initiative outcomes, benefits realisation, operational improvements, and business value delivered.
• Build relationships across divisions to influence strategic decisions and support enterprise transformation priorities.
• Set a vision for the initiative to drive high quality outcomes across a large, virtual team of squads.
• Manage the initiative backlog and visibility of delivery within Transition Office.
• Implement governance constructs and stakeholder reporting for visibility and input to decisions.
• Play a key coordinating role across divisions to plan interdependencies ensuring minimal disruption to projected work.
• Deliver major initiatives within specified time periods with a bounded outcome.
• Find the best path for delivery balancing completion, investment and time to value.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Strategic thinking

Delivery leadership

Communication

Job description

Senior Project Manager

About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

The Transition Office is ANZ’s central function responsible for governing, advising, and enabling the safe, compliant, and effective movement of work, roles, processes, and services across locations and delivery models, including Global Capability Centres (GCCs), internal ANZ locations, and third-party providers. The team provides strategic advisory support, transition governance, delivery oversight, risk and compliance management, and end-to-end transition execution to ensure transitions align with ANZ’s workforce, location, vendor, and productivity strategies. Through a standardised transition framework, the Transition Office helps business areas identify opportunities, assess feasibility, manage risk, execute transitions, and realise sustainable business benefits As an Initiative Lead within the Transition Office , you will be responsible for identifying, shaping, and leading strategic initiatives that strengthen ANZ’s transition capabilities, governance, operating frameworks, and enterprise-wide sourcing agenda. You will partner with senior business leaders, Transformation Office, People & Culture, Risk, Finance, Technology, Procurement, and other enablement functions to drive initiatives that improve the way ANZ plans, governs, delivers, and realises value from transitions. The role combines strategic thinking, delivery leadership, stakeholder engagement, and change management to ensure the Transition Office continuously evolves its frameworks, tools, processes, and operating model to meet enterprise objectives.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Location: Bengaluru Role Type: Permanent

What will your day look like?

• Partner with business and functional leaders to identify opportunities that support ANZ’s workforce, location, outsourcing, vendor, and productivity strategies.
• Drive the design and implementation of new transition frameworks, methodologies, tools, standards, and governance processes.
• Manage initiative roadmaps, business cases, delivery plans, risks, dependencies, governance forums, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver agreed outcomes while ensuring alignment with regulatory, risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Drive stakeholder engagement, change management, communication, training, and adoption activities to embed new ways of working across ANZ.
• Measure and report on initiative outcomes, benefits realisation, operational improvements, and business value delivered.
• Build strong relationships across divisions and enablement functions to influence strategic decisions and support enterprise transformation priorities.
• Set a vision for the initiative to drive high quality outcomes and unity across a large, virtual team of squads.
• Manage the initiative ‘backlog’ and retain visibility of delivery within Transition Office.
• Implement the right governance construct and stakeholder reporting for visibility and input to decisions, prioritization and remove roadblocks.
• Play a key coordinating role across various divisions and functions that are critical to the delivery of the initiative and understand and plan for interdependencies across various divisions and functions ensuring that there is minimal disruption to their ability to complete projected work.
• Deliver major initiatives within specified time periods with a bounded outcome in the context of new ways of working.
• Find the best path for delivery of the initiative that balances overall completion and total investment with minimisation of time to value.

What will you bring?

• Experience in leading large scale business and technology change including managing complex stakeholder groups along the journey.
• Previous experience in scoping and developing plans for strategic pieces of work.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, and ability to build relationships – understand the customer, define the problem and develop solutions through their eyes.
• Strong communication skills and ability to elicit/translate information in a technical/data driven space.
• Experience in change management - comfortable with uncertainty and have the ability to effectively manage yourself through ambiguity and change.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Willingness to look at things differently, challenge the status quo and innovate.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

Job Posting End Date 12/10/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia) Experience Level Senior Level