Senior Project Manager ePMO
Senior Project Manager ePMO
National Support Office - Auckland
Mō te Tūranga | About the Role
This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our Enterprise Project Management Office (ePMO) and lead high-profile strategic programmes across one of New Zealand's largest healthcare organisations.
You'll lead complex business transformation initiatives, partnering with Executive leaders and senior stakeholders to deliver strategic change that strengthens organisational capability and drives lasting business outcomes.
This is more than project delivery. It's an opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, shape enterprise-wide change, and help mature project management capability across the organisation. If you're looking for a role where you can make a visible impact while working alongside senior leaders to deliver meaningful transformation, we'd love to hear from you.
This is a contractor position based in our Auckland office.
Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
- Significant experience delivering large-scale technology, digital, or business transformation projects and programmes
- Previous experience working within a PMO or Enterprise PMO (ePMO) environment
- Demonstrated success leading complex enterprise projects involving multiple stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams
- Proven ability to influence, engage, and communicate with Executive leaders and senior business stakeholders
- Strong experience managing project governance, budgets, risks, dependencies, and third-party vendors
- Experience delivering projects using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies
- Project Management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum, or equivalent
- Outstanding stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance strategic objectives and operational delivery
- A collaborative leadership style with experience coaching, mentoring, and developing project capability
Highly regarded:
- HRIS implementation experience
- Experience in implementing enterprise applications (in support of business transformation)
- Healthcare experience
Ngā mea ka taea e mātou te tuku I a koe | What we can offer you:
- Competitive Rewards: Attractive contractor day rate
- Health & Wellbeing: Extended Christmas/New Year break.
- Flexibility & Growth: Flexible working arrangements
Ko wai matou | Our Organisation
At Southern Cross Healthcare, our purpose is clear: to advance quality healthcare across Aotearoa New Zealand. Our values shape everything we do:
- Care First – We lead with compassion, delivering care that’s deeply human through genuine manaakitanga.
- Better Together – Collaboration is our strength. We unite diverse skills and perspectives to create better outcomes for all.
- Pursue Excellence – We strive to improve, innovate, and excel every day—never settling, always aiming to deliver our best.
We’re proud to bring together over 4,000 skilled professionals—including 2,000 nurses and anaesthetic technicians—working alongside more than 1,200 specialists, surgeons, anaesthetists, and allied health experts. Together, we’re one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest and most trusted healthcare providers.
Driven by a strong ‘for purpose’ ethos, we think beyond financial quarters—planning for generations to come.
Tō mātou whakahaere ki te tika, te rerekētanga, me te whai wāhi mai | Our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
We honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and foster a culturally safe environment that reflects manaakitanga and values the unique perspectives of our people. Our core value, Better Together, guides our goal to build a workforce that mirrors the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand.
If you have specific needs or would like to discuss how we can support you, please contact our Talent Acquisition team at careers@schl.co.nz for a confidential conversation.
Haere mai, ā, mā te mahi tahi ka whai wāhi ki tētahi mea whai take, ka āwhina i ngā tāngata ki te whai oranga mā te whakaaro anō ki te tautiaki hauora
Join us, and together, each of us can be part of something important, helping people live their best lives by reimagining healthcare.
