Strategic Portfolio Management Team Leader

We’re looking for a Strategic Portfolio Management Team Leader to join our Technology & Innovation Unit. In this permanent opportunity, you’ll head up our central Strategic Portfolio Management Team. Shape how we plan, monitor, and report on our major tech investments. You’ll lead a highly skilled team driving strategic insights at the core of critical decision-making and help align our delivery to our new Technology strategy.

Your Role in Action  

• Lead & inspire - build and empower a high-performing team to deliver critical business outcomes across our complex tech landscape.
• Be a trusted advisor - provide strategic and technical portfolio leadership to Technology Leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Drive the plan - lead annual planning, budgeting, and forecasting, plus in-year review and optimisation of delivery plans.
• Turn data into decisions - deliver sharp portfolio insights and performance reporting to drive smarter, faster decisions.
• Shape strategy and governance - define and embed key metrics, assurance practices, and financial reporting to influence at all levels.
• Fuel investment decisions - oversee the Technology & Innovation operating budget and deliver robust financial models that support long-term investment planning.
• Drive change at scale - champion the adoption of agile delivery, product management, and modern portfolio practices across the business.
• Elevate governance excellence - ensure investment, capacity, and delivery governance is rock-solid through effective frameworks, health checks and assurance.

What Makes You a Great Fit 

• Values-driven leadership with a proven ability to motivate and develop diverse technical teams toward shared goals.
• Hands-on experience in a Project Management Office or centralised management team within complex ICT environments, driving measurable results.
• Strong analytical mindset to evaluate project and portfolio performance and translate insights into strategic actions.
• Expertise in Agile frameworks and modern delivery methodologies tailored to digital technology projects.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills - able to influence, build partnerships, and embed sustainable business improvements.
• Professional qualifications in project or portfolio management (e.g., Diploma of Project Management)

At Western Power, we’re leading a bold dual transformation - reshaping the future of energy while evolving the technology that powers it. This is more than just a modernisation of infrastructure; it’s a reimagining of how we deliver essential services to our communities, reliably and sustainably. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations.

• Build the future - be part of a once-in-a-generation tech transformation reshaping how energy is delivered. You won’t find a challenge like this anywhere else.
• Grow fast - when you’re part of building something new, you grow in ways you can’t in business-as-usual roles. You’ll learn faster and go further through challenge, tailored development & study assistance.
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.

Applications close on 8 August 2025 

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Find out more about our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

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