Project Manager

DAI Post Philippines; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Collaborative team environment

Promotional opportunities

Job summary

DAI Post Philippines is seeking a Project Manager to join our global PM & BI team. You will coordinate projects across Cebu, Manila, and international locations, guiding initiatives from initiation through release and handover to business as usual.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and 3–5 years of project management experience, preferably in logistics or technology. You will work with sponsors, analysts, and operations to deliver structured outcomes and operational improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, logistics, IT, or related fields.
• 3–5 years of experience as a Project Manager in logistics, technology, or PMO environments.
• Strong project management, planning, coordination, and organisational skills.
• Ability to manage medium-complexity technology and business projects in a governance setting.
• Knowledge of waterfall, agile, lean, and hybrid delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the full project lifecycle from initiation to close-out and transition to BAU.
• Collaborate with sponsors and cross-functional teams to align outcomes with priorities.
• Support project intake, business case evaluation, risks, and resources.
• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID registers, and status reports.
• Ensure delivery within scope, quality standards, and governance expectations.
• Coordinate release readiness and handover to BAU teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve project governance and delivery controls.

Skills

Project management

Planning

Coordination

Organisational skills

MS Project

Jira

Trello

Smartsheet

Monday.com

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Trello

Smartsheet

Monday.com

Global Track

Route4Me

Job description

With millions of parcels delivered each year, we pride ourselves on reliable and cost-effective service.

Established in 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, DAI Postis an Australian-owned company specialising in ecommerce and wholesale international parcel delivery across Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.

As a forward-thinking global logistics company, we place a strong emphasis on innovation, technology, and operational excellence. We’re on the lookout for a highly skilledProject Manager to join our growing team.

This is a full-time position, and you’ll be collaborating with teams based in Cebu, Manila, and other global locations as part of our growing international team.

Purpose:

The Project Manager plays a critical role in supporting the PM & BI department’s mission of delivering structured projects, technology change, and operational improvements through disciplined planning, governance, execution, and cross-functional coordination.

Areas of Accountability:

Project Lifecycle Management

• Oversee the full project lifecycle from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, release readiness, close-out, and transition to BAU.
• Collaborate with sponsors, department heads, Project Managers, Technology, Operations, Finance, Commercial, and other teams to align project outcomes with organisational priorities.
• Support initiative prioritisation, proposal review, project intake, and business case evaluation by providing delivery assumptions, feasibility inputs, dependencies, risks, and resource considerations.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, RAID registers, decision logs, delivery schedules, release plans, and status reporting for assigned initiatives.
• Manage project execution to ensure agreed deliverables meet approved scope, business requirements, quality standards, governance expectations, and agreed timelines or endorsed revised timelines.
• Partner with Business Analysts to ensure approved requirements, acceptance criteria, scope changes, and business impacts are reflected in project plans, delivery governance, release readiness, and close-out activities.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Engage project sponsors, business owners, subject matter experts, delivery teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure clear alignment, decision-making, and accountability.
• Facilitate project forums, working groups, status meetings, and escalation discussions to resolve blockers and maintain delivery momentum.
• Maintain clear communication on project status, scope, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, assumptions, and required stakeholder actions.
• Address stakeholder concerns or delivery challenges promptly, escalating material impacts through appropriate governance channels.
• Promote structured collaboration between business and technology teams to support practical, operationally adoptable delivery outcomes.
• Identify project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies early and maintain them in a structured RAID register.
• Develop mitigation strategies, action plans, owners, and due dates for material delivery risks and issues.
• Monitor risks and issues throughout delivery and adjust plans as needed to address changes in business priorities, capacity, scope, or external constraints.
• Escalate high-impact risks, decision gaps, or dependency conflicts to sponsors and relevant executives in a timely manner.

Budgeting, Resourcing & Financial Oversight

• Coordinate project budget, resource, vendor, and effort assumptions in collaboration with sponsors, department heads, Finance, Technology, and other relevant teams.
• Track project cost, resource effort, vendor dependencies, and budget assumptions against approved or endorsed revised baselines, escalating material variances or funding impacts through agreed governance channels.

Team Leadership & Delivery Coordination

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional project teams to ensure responsibilities, actions, owners, and target dates are clear.
• Motivate and support team members by removing blockers, facilitating decisions, and keeping delivery activities focused on agreed priorities.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and practical delivery support to project team members on project management practices and governance requirements.
• Coordinate delivery across internal teams and external partners or vendors where required.

Documentation, Reporting & Governance

• Maintain complete and auditable project documentation, including project scope/charter, plans, RAID logs, decisions, change requests, acceptance criteria, release readiness evidence, close-out artefacts, and benefit realisation inputs.
• Produce concise and accurate project status reports covering progress, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, budget/resource status, and escalations for the Head of PM & BI and relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure assigned projects operate under the agreed PM & BI governance framework, including approvals, documentation, reporting cadence, change control, release readiness, and close-out requirements.

Release Readiness & BAU Transition Support

• Coordinate release readiness activities, including stakeholder readiness, operational impacts, training dependencies, cutover planning, acceptance criteria, and support arrangements.
• Ensure handover to BAU teams is planned, documented, and agreed before project closure.
• Support post-implementation review and benefit validation in collaboration with sponsors, Business Analysts, Finance, Data/BI, Technology, and operational owners where applicable.

Project Management Framework & Business Improvement

• Actively identify opportunities to improve project management processes, governance templates, reporting practices, delivery controls, and portfolio visibility.
• Contribute to the implementation, adoption, and uplift of the PM & BI framework across priority initiatives.
• Identify and support broader business improvement opportunities, whether delivered as formal projects or operational uplift initiatives.
• Support benefit realisation by ensuring delivered outcomes remain traceable to approved objectives, business cases, and expected operational or financial benefits.

General/Others

• Comply with data integrity and security policies.
• Inspire and advocate the company values.
• Uphold OH&S policies and procedures to ensure a safe work environment for employees, contractors, and visitors.
• Other duties as requested by the department head.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, logistics, IT, or related fields.
• 3-5 years of experience as a Project Manager, preferably in logistics, technology, operational transformation, or a structured PMO/project governance environment.
• Strong project management, planning, coordination, and organisational skills.
• Ability to independently manage medium-complexity technology and business/operational projects in a structured governance environment.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including waterfall, agile, lean principles, and hybrid delivery models.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor communication to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Ability to liaise between technical and non-technical stakeholders and translate delivery impacts into clear business language.
• Knowledge of logistics processes and operations will be highly regarded.
• Familiarity with PM tools such as MS Project, Jira, Trello, Smartsheet, Monday.com, or equivalent platforms.
• Knowledge/experience in logistics software/systems such as Global Track, Route4Me, or equivalent will be highly advantageous but not mandatory.

Why Join Us?

At DAI Post, you’ll be part of a high-performing, committed team that’s making a real difference in the lives of our customers.

We offer:

• Opportunities for professional growth and promotion.
• A supportive, collaborative work environment.