Company Description
We’ve been around since 1988, and today we’re one of Australia’s largest profit‑to‑member super funds.
That means everything we do is focused on delivering better outcomes for our members – not shareholders.
Closing date: 14th September 2026
Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies
Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier
Job Description
At Rest, we help more than 2 million Australians to build a better financial future. With around $112 billion in funds under management, we focus on delivering strong long-term outcomes for our members — from their first job through to retirement*. Your best at Rest means focusing on what matters, being trusted to get on with it, and knowing your work genuinely makes a difference. That’s how we operate every day, guided by our values: Be Daring, Keep It Simple, Take Action and Have Grit.
Join us as the Head of Delivery, Portfolio & Change - Enterprise, where you’ll lead delivery, portfolio management and change enablement capability for the enterprise domain as well running portfolio planning as a service across the broader Technology, Transformation & Enablement Division. This is your opportunity to make a real contribution to the financial wellbeing of millions of Australians.
Your role will lead the approved Enterprise Services portfolio across all change and transform initiatives across both persistent teams and projects
Lead a diverse team of portfolio, project, change and initiative leaders to mobilise projects and programs.
Translate priorities into options, work decomposition, capacity and sequencing scenarios, credible delivery commitments and visible opportunity cost; Shape demand to increase the use of stable teams and predictable capacity where feasible to deepen domain knowledge, outcome-alignment and predictable quality/change ownership.
Facilitate persistent Enterprise Services and Platform teams to maintain durable roadmaps, ordered backlogs and an explicit capacity policy across run or support, committed change, discovery, security and control work, reliability and technical debt, provider obligations and contingency.
For hybrid initiatives, connect project work packages, persistent-team backlog items, shared-platform change, provider deliverables, controls and business adoption through one outcome, dependency, release, confidence and transition architecture.
Establish commitment entry conditions so discovery and uncommitted demand remain distinct from work accepted into a feasible baseline. Confirm the outcome, owner, funding route, capacity source, key dependencies, acceptance conditions, adoption owner and transition route before material work is treated as committed.
Maintain the integrated TTE planning and observability capability
Design and maintain the TTE planning and oversight cadence approved by TTE leadership, including periodic portfolio and capacity reconciliation, material dependency and release decisions, delivery-confidence intervention and authorised mobilisation, continuation or closure decisions.
Maintain common minimum definitions, identifiers, evidence requirements, submission rules and data-quality checks for TTE portfolio information, working with Finance, Risk, Portfolio governance team and domain delivery leaders, and ensure these standards are enabled as efficient workflows through tooling, AI-fluent methods and practices
Publish end to end cross domain roadmaps and identify dependencies & resource contention.
Support the Corporate Functions and Enterprise Platforms planning, flow and portfolio rhythm in close collaboration with functional leaders across Rest
Connect strategic and portfolio planning to the portfolio, quarterly/PI or equivalent planning cadence, as approved, and continuous roadmap, backlog and project replanning. Facilitate roadmap and backlog replenishment, work decomposition and sequence priority and funding decisions
Intervene early by changing sequence, reducing work in progress, reallocating assigned capacity within delegation, strengthening controls, resetting the forecast or recommending stop, scale or rescope. Escalate deteriorating confidence with options and consequences early enough for the accountable owner to act.
Provide complete and timely Enterprise Services information to the Enterprise portfolio service using common definitions and identifiers and reflect enterprise alignment in domain plans. Apply Rest's approved lifecycle, stage or milestone controls and assurance arrangements proportionately.
Enable change and adoption
Lead process, control, workforce readiness, and adoption activities, using mobilisation insights and stakeholder feedback to shape roadmap priorities.
Define readiness milestones, establish adoption ownership across impacted teams, and support leaders to embed sustainable change while remaining accountable for adoption and business outcomes.
Lead managers and practitioners across product and value-stream delivery, project and program delivery, portfolio, and change management, setting clear performance expectations and managing workforce capacity, cost, contingent labour, capability, succession, wellbeing and professional development.
Build practical capability in hybrid planning, capacity & financial forecasting, roadmap and backlog flow, project mobilisation, dependency and release integration, provider delivery, change and adoption, transition and evidence literacy – working cross-functionally with expertise across Rest
Support movement between domain-aligned initiatives and to balance demand across the broader enterprise portfolio – supporting both effective career development as well as improving investments outcomes and portfolio delivery effectiveness.
Qualifications
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Project, program or portfolio management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, or an agile / scrum credential), or equivalent demonstrated delivery experience
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Enterprise/corporate technology portfolio leadership - owning a corporate-functions systems estate (finance, HR/payroll, procurement, workplace, records) and an enterprise change portfolio across multiple capability areas.
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Delivery and portfolio management at scale - demand, prioritisation, throughput and milestone delivery of a technology change agenda within risk appetite and funding discipline.
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Federated / embedded delivery operating models - enabling and stewarding delivery and change execution owned in business and technology domains (two-in-a-box), rather than running a central PMO.
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Enterprise change management (OCM) and adoption - embedding new ways of working so business benefits and the People Score are realised.
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Leading a multi-team sub-function through its managers - setting delivery, service and quality standards and owning performance, cost, risk and controls.
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Regulatory-aware corporate-platform and delivery leadership - working knowledge of the obligations touching corporate / enterprise systems and their resilience (operational resilience CPS 230, secure-by-design CPS 234, best financial interests SPS 515).
Additional Information
.What you'll find at Rest
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Hybrid working
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5 Rest Days (wellbeing days) each year in addition to annual leave
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22 weeks paid parental leave (gender neutral)
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Continued super contributions during parental leave
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Learning and development opportunities, including AI & Data Academy, leadership programs, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and professional memberships
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Income Protection Insurance
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Option to purchase additional leave
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Recognition through our Rest Excellence Awards
If you share our values and this sounds like the kind of place you’d do your best work, we’d like to hear from you. Apply now.
Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.
We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.
We welcome applications from all candidates. To be considered, you will need the right to work in Australia.
- Funds under management as at 30 June 2026. Rest is recognised as a superannuation leader across a range of areas including performance, responsible investment and member value. Find out more at https://rest.com.au/why-rest/awards.
