Transit Growth Program Lead

Auckland Transport; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Auckland Transport is seeking a Public Transport Growth Delivery Lead to drive and manage project delivery across growth initiatives for Auckland’s PT network. The role focuses on planning, sequencing, tracking, unblocking and reporting to meet patronage growth targets.

Reporting to the PT Growth Manager, you will coordinate with workstream leads and stakeholders, ensure timely delivery of cross-functional initiatives and manage onboarding and commercial renewals across product areas.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in business or commercial discipline.
• Formal qualification in Project Management.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Project Delivery commercial or transport operations.
• 8+ years delivering cross functional projects in an Agile environment, ideally in public transport or the wider public sector.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management discipline to keep the programme moving: planning, sequencing, tracking, unblocking and reporting.
• Coordinate initiative delivery with workstream leads and manage stakeholder-facing delivery when external coordination is required.
• Track and report performance of the Growth Programme; maintain risk, issue and decision registers.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies across marketing, data, customer, commercial, technology and operations teams.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Agile delivery

Communication

Partner onboarding

Education

Bachelors in Business or related field

Project management certification

Job description

Auckland Transport is seeking a Public Transport Growth Delivery Lead to drive and manage project delivery across growth initiatives for Auckland’s PT network. The role focuses on planning, sequencing, tracking, unblocking and reporting to meet patronage growth targets.

Reporting to the PT Growth Manager, you will coordinate with workstream leads and stakeholders, ensure timely delivery of cross-functional initiatives and manage onboarding and commercial renewals across product areas.