Head of Portfolio and Service Creation
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Company Description
Job Description
About Us
ur values ‘collaborate, innovate and deliver’ reflect how we do things at Vector Metering. By working together, we can achieve more than we ever could on our own. By embracing change, we can deliver better products, services, and solutions for our customers. We are dedicated to delivering on our promises, and being a company that our customers can trust.
Vector Metering is a business to business company helping our customers optimise, be more efficient and more successful through smart energy services. We have been providing smart metering services across New Zealand for over 15 years and for over 6 years in Australia and today partner with leading energy retailers and distributors.
From office-based operations teams to electrical technicians in the field, there are multiple career pathways to choose from at Vector Metering.
The energy sector is going through a major transformation, and we want you to join us and be part of this exciting transformation that is having an impact on our society, our environment and our future.
If you are interested in helping us achieve our vision of enabling choice through change, Vector Metering could be the place for you.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join Vector Metering. As Head of Portfolio and Service Creation you will `be directly accountable for the delivery of our Digital project portfolio. This is a “full stack” role which supports not only significant technology changes but also the business change elements of the new services being delivered.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing oversight and support of the prioritisation of projects, enabling the mobilisation of work for the value stream, and developing project definitions and budgets to ensure benefits realisation, as agreed with stakeholders.
- Providing portfolio leadership, integration and management of processes and functions to improve the consistency and efficiency of project delivery
- Build capability across the organisation to speed benefit realisation and effectively prioritise work
- Contributing to new and innovative project management approaches and tools and embed these in the behaviour and day to day activities.
- Providing assurance to the CTO of high performance, cost effectiveness and fit with current and future business demands.
- Managing the delivery, interdependencies, and coordination across our project portfolio, such as sizing and estimation of work, and ensuring that information relating to project deliverables including risks and issues are effectively communicated between stakeholders and key performance indicators are monitored and evaluated.
- Supporting the customer bid process with skilled resources, responses and solutions.
Who we are looking for
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field with a minimum of 10 years project management experience, with a significant portion operating within agile working environments. You will have a problem solving and continuous improvement mindset with a strong focus on the customer and you will have well developed business/ financial acumen. Experience in contemporary software development is a must as is dealing with the nuts and bolts of core infrastructure and cloud services.
Your organisational and leadership skills will top notch and you will have demonstrated ability to lead a team of delivery practitioners and analyst to across multiple projects with high priority, challenges, obstacles, and deadlines. Your attention to detail, coaching and communication skills will be exceptional, You will demonstrate the ability to authentically and professionally partner with internal and external stakeholders.
What we can offer you
Why us? At Vector Metering we are a business where our people are valued. We’re proud to be an inclusive workplace; our workforce made up of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race and religion.
In support of this we offer -
- A fun and collaborative environment.
- Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times.
- Health and wellbeing support
- Great benefits including life insurance, and subsidised health insurance
If you require assistance or accessibility support from us during the application and selection process, please get in touch with us on 09 978 7792
Applications will close 23 July 2023 .
