Brennan. Where true performance thrives.
At Brennan, we believe that
how technology is delivered is every bit as important as
what the technology is. We focus on creating real and relevant value for customers with solutions that fit their specific needs and always reflect their true interests.
It’s a claim backed by our
True Performance System – a way of working engineered to get us closer, and deliver better, for our customers and their actual experience of technology.
Why join Brennan
True performance for our customers starts with a true belief in our people.
It’s why we’ve structured our business to help our teams, and their talents, shine bright. It's why we’ve created a workplace where people of all backgrounds, beliefs and experiences are welcomed and empowered. And it’s why we’ve built an organization where real innovation makes a genuine impact and generates true rewards for our team members.
True rewards
In addition to competitive remuneration, Brennan offers extensive benefits, including:
- Training and certification bonuses
- Culture Awards that recognize excellence
- Brennan Daredevils – our annual, all-expenses paid trip awarded to our top performers and outstanding contributors
- Vibrant, fun social activities
- Discounted hardware and software
- An environment that embraces learning and development
The Role:
The Project Manager is responsible for independently leading the delivery of digital projects across Cloud, Data & AI, or Business Application practices within a professional service environment. The role works directly with customers, project teams and internal stakeholders to manage delivery activities, maintain project governance, control scope, schedule, cost and quality, and deliver positive customer outcomes aligned to Brennan’s delivery frameworks.
The Project Manager owns project planning, coordination, reporting and stakeholder communication, acting as the day-to-day delivery owner for assigned projects. The role is accountable for identifying, managing and resolving risks, issues and delivery challenges, escalating appropriately where decisions, support or intervention are required to keep projects
on track.
The Project Manager contributes to continuous improvement by applying Brennan’s project management standards, using approved tools effectively, and demonstrating strong project delivery, customer communication, commercial awareness and delivery discipline.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Project Delivery Coordination, Control & Support:
- Independently lead the delivery of assigned professional services projects, typically lower to moderate complexity engagements, working directly with customers, project teams and internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate project activities to ensure scope, schedule, budget, quality and customer expectations are understood, managed and tracked.
- Maintain project plans, registers, status reports, meeting minutes and action logs in line with Brennan’s project governance standards.
- Identify, document and track risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and decisions (RAIDD), escalating concerns to the Portfolio Manager or relevant governance forum as required.
- Drive mitigation and follow-up activities by coordinating actions, owners and due dates.
- Manage change control processes by documenting change requests, impacts,
approvals and related communication.
- Coordinate impact assessment inputs for cost, schedule, scope, risk and resourcing, escalating material impacts for review and approval.
- Coordinate activities across project team members, helping ensure actions are visible and aligned to upcoming milestones.
- Identify potential resource constraints and escalate early for support and direction.
- Lead project team cadence through clear administration, meeting coordination, follow-up and timely communication.
- Escalate delivery issues promptly through agreed governance and escalation
pathways.
- Maintain accurate and timely project information within the PPM tool and associated systems.
Financial & Commercial Management:
- Manage project financial administration, including budget tracking, forecast updates, timesheet follow-up and billing milestone visibility.
- Monitor actuals against forecast and baseline, identifying variances and driving corrective actions with appropriate escalation where required.
- Drive recovery actions for at-risk projects by tracking agreed actions, owners, due dates and commercial impacts.
- Ensure billable effort is accurately captured and aligned to client agreements,
approved scope and billing milestones.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
- Lead customer and internal stakeholder communication through clear project
updates, meeting notes and action summaries.
- Facilitate project working groups and customer status meetings, including agendas, minutes, actions and follow-up.
- Prepare timely project reporting focused on progress, risks, issues, actions and forecast updates.
- Work directly with customers, project teams and internal stakeholders to resolve day to-day delivery matters and escalate where business decisions or leadership support are required.
- Own customer-facing project management activities within defined governance and support structures.
Pre-Sales Support and Initiation:
- Lead project initiation activities by confirming scope, assumptions, deliverables, risks, milestones and handover information.
- Manage transition from sales to delivery by preparing project documentation,
organising kick-off activities and confirming initial project administration requirements.
Capability & Continuous Improvement:
- Follow Brennan’s Project Framework, delivery standards and information security policies.
- Contribute ideas for improving project administration, reporting consistency and delivery practices.
- Contribute to improved delivery outcomes by applying practical project management experience, sharing lessons learned and supporting consistent use of Brennan’s delivery practices.
KEY COMPETENCIES
Delivery Experience:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management, project delivery or professional services delivery roles, with demonstrated ownership of customer-facing projects.
- Experience delivering digital, cloud, business application or IT professional services projects is required.
- Experience working in structured project environments with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities and defined governance processes.
Professional Skills and Technology:
- Strong working knowledge of project delivery methods, governance, scheduling, reporting, risk management, issue management and change control.
- Relevant project management certification is desirable, such as PMP, PRINCE2
Practitioner, AgilePM, Scrum Master or similar.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, project scheduling tools and PPM systems. MS Project Operations exposure preferred.
- Experience working with distributed delivery teams is mandatory.
Behavioural Capabilities:
- Organised and reliable project professional with strong attention to detail and follow through.
- Proactive and accountable, with sound judgement to resolve delivery matters
independently and escalate early where project decisions, risks or customer matters require leadership support.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarise project information for internal teams and customers.
- Strong issue resolution, stakeholder engagement and customer-facing project
leadership skills.
- Strong customer and team focus, with a commitment to Brennan’s core values.
- Collaborative team contributor who can work independently, maintain delivery
discipline and engage effectively across local and remote teams.
The responsibilities outlined here are subject to change or amendment at any time at the discretion of the business.
Brennan is an equal opportunity employer. 