Senior Program Manager
The Senior Program Manager serves as an experienced delivery leader on the Global Product Strategic Delivery Team at Aristocrat. This role is responsible for guiding complex, enterprise-scale initiatives across Aristocrat’s global product portfolio.
This professional drives cross-functional execution across Product, Technology, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Compliance, and leadership teams. The role ensures that strategic priorities are translated into clear plans, disciplined governance, measurable outcomes, and sustained business value. As a trusted partner to senior leaders, the Senior Program Manager provides structure in ambiguity, influences alignment across matrixed teams, and drives accountability for delivery commitments, risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes. The role operates with a high degree of autonomy, engages regularly with senior management, and helps mature standards, tools, data analysis, and fulfillment practices across the organisation.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional programs with enterprise visibility, business-critical outcomes, and multiple interconnected workstreams.
- Translate strategic objectives into actionable delivery plans, achievements, success measures, governance routines, and ownership models.
- Drive program outcomes through partnership with business leaders to define success measures, connect delivery plans to measurable business objectives, track benefits realisation, and ensure programs deliver intended business value.
- Establish and maintain executive-level program artifacts, dashboards, reporting, and performance metrics that provide clarity and enable informed decision-making.
- Proactively identify, assess, raise, and drive resolution of risks, issues, dependencies, decision points, and delivery constraints.
- Facilitate governance forums, leadership reviews, and decision-making routines that promote timely resolution of critical issues, clear accountability, and disciplined execution.
- Influence cross-functional teams without direct authority by clarifying scope, sequencing, commitments, trade-offs, and success measures.
- Influence the continuous improvement of standards, delivery methodologies, tools, templates, and reporting practices while mentoring less experienced team members.
- Own program outcomes by aligning delivery plans with quantifiable business objectives, customer impact, financial considerations, and executive-level success metrics.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Technology, Information Systems, Finance, Product, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered. (required)
- 10+ years of experience leading complex programs, critical initiatives, enterprise delivery efforts, or related cross-functional transformation work. (required)
- Proven success operating as a seasoned program leader across multiple functional areas, preferably in product, technology, gaming, digital, or similarly complex environments. (required)
- Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to frame complex issues, risks, decisions, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly for senior leadership. (required)
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build trust with collaborators, and gain alignment in sensitive, ambiguous, or fast-paced situations. (required)
- Strong knowledge of program management practices, governance models, risk and dependency management, performance reporting, and delivery methodologies. (required)
- Experience working with globally distributed teams and within environments involving regulatory, compliance, operational, or commercialisation constraints. (required)
- Advanced proficiency with enterprise delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Smartsheet, and Power BI. (required)
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.