Delivery Practices Manager

2 weeks ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Transpower Full time
Bring your experience in improving and embedding Project Management practices

  • Lead our Project Coordination team. Support multiyear ICT Portfolio Delivery
  • Help to enable a more sustainable energy future for Aotearoa


Bring your passion for driving continuous improvement and lead a Project Coordination team that supports $50m of ICT Projects per annum.

Transpower is the commercially focused and regulated State-Owned Enterprise that owns and operates the National Grid.

At the very heart of the energy sector, we transport electricity from where it is generated to large electricity users and the distribution companies who deliver it to homes and businesses nationwide.


About the team


The IST Delivery Services team work to deliver circa $50m of IST projects per annum, encompassing both waterfall and agile delivery techniques.

The right people and timely delivery of our ICT Work Programme is essential to Whakamana i Te Mauri Hiko - Empowering our Energy Future.


About the opportunity


As our Delivery Practices Manager, you'll be responsible for developing and implementing delivery standards and processes for IST Portfolios and Projects.

You'll lead a team of ~8 Project Coordinators and a Portfolio Administrator supporting IST capital delivery. You'll utilise your permanent team to help embed change into the IST delivery teams.

Over the next 18 months you'll be involved in:

  • Leading the launch of our Service Delivery Framework (SDF) for IST and work on enhancements aligned with our roadmap. You'll coach your project coordinators to embed the changes with the team/s they support.
  • Collaboration with Portfolio Delivery Managers and Project Managers to update the Delivery Practices Roadmap and deliver against it
  • Establishing and leading a Project Management Community of Practice building on the success of the established Project Coordinators group
  • Support the continuous growth of our coordinators through to Associate Project Managers if that's their aspiration.
  • Agree and establish our Project Management Standards

What will you bring?


You may be in an Operational PMO Manager role with direct reports currently or have people leadership experience and have led improvements/change in project delivery practices for a large commercial organisation.


This role provides a service to our Portfolio Delivery Managers and leads change, so you'll be naturally collaborative, and get your buzz from providing a service that ensures great project delivery outcomes.

A passion for developing people is essential as we have a development path for our project co-ordinators to become our project managers of the future.

Many of the changes to delivery practices that you will lead will have enterprise-wide impacts so you will have great system thinking and exceptional ability to seek and provide clarity and influence

Your CV and cover letter will demonstrate:

  • Outstanding communication and leadership skills with energy and passion for project delivery governance and continuous improvement. You may have led the delivery practice in a vendor or large organisation.
  • A PMP equivalent certification and 10+ years of relevant experience working within programme, portfolio, and project management (PMO experience advantageous)
  • An understanding of project finances, and experience managing billable resources that support the delivery of projects.
  • A proven track record of success in implementing and embedding Project Management and Delivery Processes as well as embedding practices and ways of working though influence rather than hierarchy.

Join us at Transpower.
Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver.

This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, every day and long into the future.


Next Steps

Job Details:

  • Position Description
Delivery Practices Reference #
Posted on
31 Mar 2023- Closes on

23 Apr :55- Location(s)

Wellington- Expertise
Project Management- Job level(s)
Experienced, Management- Work type(s)
Permanent Full Time
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