Project Manager

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband and digital solutions.

Join our Network Delivery Office as a Project Manager and play a pivotal role in planning, executing, and governing projects that shape the future of our network. You’ll be based in Macquarie Park and work across multiple work streams and stakeholders, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards.

Your day to day will consist of

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, ensuring adherence to project management frameworks and standards.
• Create and maintain project timelines, milestones, and resource allocation plans.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, and ensure accurate invoicing.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks; manage change requests.
• Coordinate and manage third-party vendors to meet delivery objectives.
• Provide timely and accurate project reporting to stakeholders.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and ensure clear, consistent communication.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project delivery frameworks and templates.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, WHS standards, and escalation protocols.
• Support pre-sales activities, including tender documentation and solution scoping.
• Conduct Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs) and share insights with Sales and Presales teams.

What makes you perfect for the role?

• Proven experience managing large-scale, cross-functional projects in network delivery in Telco, infrastructure or utility environments.
• Project Management certification (PMI, PMBoK, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent).
• Strong analytical, planning, and forward-thinking skills.
• Exceptional leadership and influencing abilities; able to build strong relationships at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive-level stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating multiple collaborators and vendors in high-complexity environments.
• Proficiency in project management governance, frameworks, tools, and methodologies.

The good stuff….

• Competitive remuneration and colleague discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners.
• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home.
• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenience store, chill out zones, GP, post office, gym and on-site childcare centre.
• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you.
• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.
• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).
• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 — in-person, by phone, SMS, or video.
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon.

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact, and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity