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 one of Southern Cross Healthcare's most significant business transformation programmes.
You'll take ownership of the implementation of our new Dayforce HRIS platform, delivering a high-profile, enterprise-wide programme that will transform the way we support our people. Working alongside Executive leaders, senior stakeholders, business SMEs, and delivery partners, you'll lead the implementation through to successful delivery while managing scope, budget, timelines, risks, and vendor performance.
This role offers exceptional visibility across the organisation and the opportunity to influence a programme that will have lasting impact. Beyond the immediate project, you'll join a team that is focused on strengthening enterprise delivery capability, providing the opportunity to contribute to future strategic initiatives across Southern Cross Healthcare.
This is a full-time contractor role based in our National Support Office in the Auckland CBD.
Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience
- Proven success delivering large-scale enterprise application implementations from initiation through to delivery
- Strong experience managing complex business transformation programmes involving multiple business units and stakeholders
- Exceptional vendor management skills, including experience managing third-party and offshore delivery partners
- Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams including Business Analysts, Change Managers, and Technology and Subject Matter Experts
- Strong governance, financial management and executive reporting experience
- The confidence and presence to influence Executive stakeholders and build credibility across the organisation
- Experience working within an Enterprise PMO or similar project delivery environment
- Project Management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile
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.
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