Head of Portfolio

**General Information**:

- Date Published- 04-Sep-2024- Advertising Ends- 11-Sep-2024- Country- New Zealand- Location- Auckland, Canterbury, Hamilton & North Waikato, Taranaki- Role Type- Engineering- Work Type- Permanent- ID#- 9689**Position Description**:
**Our Co-operative**

**Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini**
We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.

When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.

**About us | Whakapā mai**
We are embracing a new vision and strategic direction with a centralised engineering, capital & technical group for COO. Global Engineering & Technical represents a transformative step in our journey towards engineering excellence and strategic innovation to deliver our long term asset strategy within COO. It will drive positive change by enhancing strategic delivery, efficiency, and agility, streamline risk management, standardise operations, simplify processes, improve communication and enhance career pathways for engineers within a recognised centre of excellence, ensuring a sustainable future.

**About the opportunity | Te whai waahi**
The Head of Portfolio - Major Remediation & New Assets has end to end accountability for management of a portfolio of Major Remediation & New Assets Capital Projects to meet Fonterra’s strategic objectives.

Your key accountabilities include:

- Oversee capital project portfolios to achieve strategic goals, leading change, and delivering benefits.
- Define portfolio scope and objectives with key stakeholders, prioritising projects, and managing execution through governance forums
- Assess portfolio performance, manage benefits, and ensure project delivery meets commitments.
- Escalate risks and key issues to governance forums, participate in forums for oversight, and drive continuous improvement
- Manage vendor relationships, share learnings, and manage portfolio wide team performance
- Partner with Global Engineering and manage design and safety in design for best value assets
- Achieve benefits and deliver capital efficiency, through leverage of capital resources across Portfolio Services, Integrated Planning & Cost, other portfolios, and key partners
- CoOp wide enterprise leadership and challenge and support across all portfolios
- Define roles, recruit, coach, and mentor the team towards strategy achievement and talent pipeline
- Manage Health, Safety, and Wellbeing and Food Safety Quality Accountabilities.

**About you | Moe koe**
You bring significant experience in managing end-to-end programme and project delivery within capital works. Your proven leadership skills have been honed in large, complex organizations, where you have successfully motivated and influenced others to achieve their best. With a strong background in contract management and commercial acumen, you have a track record of delivering capital projects across complex, major programmes.

Other skills include:

- Robust stakeholder management skills on large scale projects, including conflict resolution
- Effective communication skills to convey programme plans, budgets, risks, and interventions to all levels.

**Our story | To Tatou Korero**
Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together.
- Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose.
- Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do.
- Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.
- Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.

Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.
Sound good to you? Come join our whānau and let’s solve for better, together. You, me, us together. Tᾱtou tᾱtou.