Project Manager

Your role At Allens

Your role At Allens, our business teams are also specialists in their field, using their unique knowledge and expertise to solve critical client and business challenges. You'll be part of our Information Technology team, based in either Sydney or Melbourne. The team partners with the business to deliver secure, practical and effective technology solutions that support how our people work and serve our clients. We're looking for a Project Manager who enjoys helping people adopt technology and ways of working.

You'll lead the delivery of technology-enabled business solutions while partnering closely with stakeholders to drive business readiness, change and adoption outcomes. As a Project Manager, you will:

• Lead the end to end delivery of technology enabled business solutions, from initiation and planning through to deployment and transition to support.
• manage scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues and dependencies, maintaining clear project plans and delivery activities in Jira.
• Coordinate cross functional business and technical teams, vendors and specialist partners to resolve challenges, remove blockers and deliver implementations with minimal operational disruption.
• Drive business readiness and adoption by assessing impacts and coordinating communications, training and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Work with stakeholders to understand business objectives and requirements, assess solution options and ensure outcomes align with strategic priorities and governance, security and delivery standards.
• Build trusted relationships with sponsors, business leaders, subject matter experts and technical teams, and facilitate workshops, governance forums and steering committees.
• Provide clear and timely reporting on project status, financials, risks, issues, decisions and benefits to both technical and non technical audiences.

This is a fixed term 12 month, part time opportunity (3 days per week). At Allens we have a hybrid working structure, typically 60% in the office and 40% from home. We would be happy to discuss any other flexible working arrangements that best support you.

About you

You are a proactive and curious Project Manager who enjoys learning new technologies, solving problems and working with stakeholders to deliver meaningful business outcomes. You bring a positive, solutions focused mindset, take ownership of outcomes and thrive in environments where priorities evolve and continuous improvement is encouraged.

You will have:

• Demonstrated experience delivering technology implementations, business system upgrades, migrations, digital transformation initiatives or enterprise platform deployments.
• Experience delivering technology implementations where business readiness, stakeholder engagement, training and user adoption were critical to success.
• Strong project management, governance, financial management and reporting skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with confidence influencing senior leaders and translating complex information for varied audiences.
• Strong working knowledge of Jira, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft 365.
• A curious, collaborative and solutions focused approach, supported by strong ownership, accountability and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Experience in legal, professional services or another knowledge based organisation is advantageous.
• A formal project management certification such as PRINCE2, PMP, Agile or equivalent would be beneficial.

Your development

In joining Allens, you will receive unparalleled learning and development opportunities. You will be challenged, supported and guided as you learn and develop, and will be encouraged to grow. We foster greatness, and will coach and support you to meet your goals and aspirations. Our unique Career Deal allows you to take control of your career and provides a transparent approach to career development. Our international alliance with Linklaters means we are able to support secondments all over the world.

Our perks

Our benefits include:

• Financial: market competitive fixed remuneration, employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.
• Health and wellbeing: fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families.
• Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.
• Leave: ability to purchase additional annual leave, access to an enhanced, inclusive and flexible parental leave policy - 26 weeks paid parental leave with no minimum service for permanent employees and high quality executive coaching to support the transition.
• Recognition: team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.
• Allens is also proud to invest in our communities, giving you the opportunity to make a difference through our work on reconciliation, the environment and other social justice issues as well as our workplace giving and volunteering programs.

At Allens, our culture is made up of unique backgrounds and varying life experiences. We celebrate our people's differences across gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, and family and caring arrangements.

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At Allens, we've been building legal careers for 200 years; longer than any other firm in Australia. The impact of our people extends to almost every sphere of business, government, the judiciary and the wider legal profession. We continue to provide opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds to build outstanding careers and shape the world around them. Through our alliance with Linklaters, we work in a global network of 40 offices in 25 countries. Our size and global reach provide exceptional opportunities for career development, including both on the job learning and formal training and development opportunities. Our commitment to high performance is balanced with a focus on wellbeing, with a culture that's inclusive, supportive and collaborative. We prioritise connection and value the unique contribution of everyone at the firm. We're proud to hold some of the world's longest ongoing client relationships, stretching back more than 180 years.