Job Title: Sr Project Manager
Location: Sydney
About the Role:
The PMO Project Manager will be responsible for driving execution of implementation and ad-hoc project
delivery requests ensuring that these programs deliver on time with high quality, in accordance with stated
business and technical objectives using MRI’s standard implementation framework.
Responsibilities:
• Creates, optimizes, and drives structured schedules, resourcing and milestone project plans
• Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based
on changing data or conditions
• Assists in planning and ensuring that a project tracks to resources, timeframes, and budget
constraints
• Track open issues and effectively negotiate to impact decisions and trade-offs and to guide issues
within internal and external groups to resolution
• Manage multiple projects in varying size ranging from 8 weeks to 12 months
• Facilitates impact analysis activities where required to manage changes to scope, time and cost
following standard Change Control processes.
• Holds program team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and
deliverables
• Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks, proposing appropriate
mitigation and contingency plans and communicates in a timely manner to stakeholders and
senior management
• Identifies program dependencies and tracks and reports on their progress
• Proposes workable solutions to problems by analysing business and technical trade-offs among
alternatives, and uses objective judgment and influence to formulate and drive consensus on
recommendations
• Frames communication and discussions for the intended audience, with appropriate context and
line of sight
• Ensures that the appropriate documents exist and are broadly communicated to drive shared
vision among the program teams
• Creates clearly understandable & actionable success criteria, objectives, and requirements and
communicates them to the team
• Conducts and effectively facilitates program team meetings to update status, and identify and
resolve issues
• Achieves quality results through strong team interaction, effective cross-group collaboration and
taking ownership of the success of the initiative
• Plan and manage all external project delivery activities using the standard MRI implementation
framework
• Full project financial management responsibility
• Preparation and submission of all reporting requirements underpinned by MRI Governance
Framework & Implementation methodology
• Engagement with the Professional Services Program Management Office ensuring accurate
reporting data is timely submitted, whilst also supporting the functions continued maturity.
Job Requirements:
• 7+ years’ experience working in complex SaaS software delivery environments
• Strong understanding and experience of project/program management principles
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Strong experience in working with Professional Services accounting systems including (but not
limited to) time, cost and invoice management
• Strong planning acumen and self-starter that clearly prioritizes against delivery goals
• Communication strengths to anticipate needs and ensure teams have the information they need
to be effective, presents effectively to executives and cross-functional leaders
• Analytic & strategic thinking based on deriving insights from disparate pieces of information and
translating those insights into action and mitigation plans
• Strong decision-making skills despite ambiguous data and situations. Considers upstream and
downstream operational impacts as decision inputs. Balances long-term vs. short-term
objectives
• Detail-oriented and extremely organized, with proven ability to establish priorities and achieve
results with very strong communication skills
• Engaging and working with third Party Vendors ensuring timelines, costs and communications are
managed
• BA/BS in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related area, highly
regarded but not essential
• Project Management Professional certification
Benefits:
• Hybrid Working Model (2x days in the office, 3x days work from home)
• Annual Performance bonus
• 6x Flexi Anyday: knock 2.5 hours off your day on any day
• Me Days: additional 3 days of annual leave for qualifying employees
• Engaging, fun & inclusive culture: check out the MRI Software APAC Insta feed and stories!
About the Business:
MRI Software delivers innovative applications and hosted solutions that free real estate companies to
elevate their business. Our flexible technology platform, along with an open and connected ecosystem,
allows us to meet the unique needs of real estate businesses, from property-level management and
accounting to investment modeling and analytics for the global commercial and residential markets. With
over five decades of expertise and insight, we have grown to include offices across the United States, the
United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, and India, with
thousands of team members to support our clients and their unique needs! MRI is proud to be an Equal
Employment Opportunity employer.
