About the Opportunity
This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior, business-facing delivery role with a well-known South Island organisation at a genuinely exciting point in their technology journey. They’re accelerating their modernisation agenda and need a Senior Project Manager who can take initiatives from “we should” to “it’s live, it’s embedded, and the business is getting value from it.”
You’ll join a small but high-performing team high trust, hands-on, and close to operations. It’s a practical environment where people pitch in, decisions move quickly, and outcomes matter. This suit someone who enjoys being visible and influential in the business, building alignment and momentum, and not disappearing into project admin.
The remit is true end-to-end delivery across a varied pipeline, greenfield implementations, migrations, upgrades and business change with a strong emphasis on governance and stakeholder leadership.
While you’ll have people around you, the team is lean, so you’ll also bring the maturity to lead the “front end” of work when required: shaping scope, clarifying objectives, facilitating workshops, mapping processes, pressure-testing requirements, and ensuring the solution is set up for success before delivery ramps up. From there, you’ll own the full delivery lifecycle planning, resourcing, budget oversight, risk/issues, vendor coordination, and change activities ensuring outcomes land and stick.
The role is based in Queenstown, with an office in Wānaka and operational sites across the South Island/Great Lakes area. The expectation is a minimum of three days on-site/in-office (flexible across Queenstown/Wānaka/on-site), because being present and connected to stakeholders is a key part of how delivery succeeds here.
What You’ll Bring
You’ll have a strong track record leading complex technology programmes or large-scale projects end-to-end, and you’ll be comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity — building delivery plans, setting clear governance, aligning senior stakeholders, managing budgets and milestones, and maintaining a tight view of risk, dependencies and delivery health.
Just as importantly, you’ll have the credibility and capability to lead scoping and discovery work where needed: facilitating the right conversations, asking the incisive questions, mapping current/future-state processes, translating business needs into clear documentation, and guiding vendors/technical teams toward a solution that’s fit-for-purpose.
- Proven success leading complex, enterprise technology implementations end-to-end (greenfield, migrations, upgrades, business change)
- Strong capability in project shaping/discovery: turning broad objectives into clear scope, outcomes, deliverables and measurable success criteria
- Confidence facilitating senior stakeholder workshops and steering groups; able to drive decisions, alignment and accountability
- Strong vendor and partner management: selection support, SOW oversight, delivery coordination and performance management
- Comfortable operating in a lean environment where you’ll “roll up your sleeves” and fill gaps to keep momentum (without losing strategic view)
- Ability to flex into business analysis when required: requirements elicitation, process mapping, translating needs into clear documentation
- Calm under pressure with strong judgement able to manage ambiguity, competing priorities and fast-moving delivery environments
We’re looking for someone with presence and momentum a calm operator who can lead through influence, drive decisions, and take genuine ownership. Project frameworks/certifications (PMP/PRINCE2/Agile) are helpful, as is comfort with delivery tooling (e.g., Jira / MS Project) and process mapping tools (e.g., Visio), but your ability to lead people and deliver results will matter most.
What’s on Offer
You’ll step into a role with real breadth and impact - spanning system evaluation and selection through to implementation and business change and you’ll have the autonomy to deliver visible, practical wins quickly.
You’ll be working in a culture that values initiative, collaboration and delivery, with close access to decision-makers and stakeholders. If you’re excited by variety, pace, and the chance to make technology “real” in the day-to-day of the business, this is a compelling next step.
Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We'll review applications as they come in and be in touch.
For any questions give Teresa Jordan a call on +64 27 376 4884 and quote Job ID: 17926 for a confidential chat.
To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.
At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.
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