Portfolio Governance Manager - Transformation Office

Bayside Health

Bayside Health is a public health service delivering high-quality care across every stage of life for close to 1.2 million people living in metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Koo Wee Rup, Bass Coast and Southern Gippsland. We have more than 15 main sites, including hospitals, centres and clinics that provide comprehensive care from welcoming newborns to supporting older people and a full range of services in between. More than 22,000 dedicated staff are focused on providing exceptional, equitable, and locally connected care through shared expertise, compassion, and a commitment to continuous growth. Education and training are central to staff development as we encourage all employees to strive and thrive. Bayside Health was formed following the merger of Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and Peninsula Health on 1 January 2026.

Head of Portfolio Management Office (PMO) – Alfred Care Group, Bayside Health

• Permanent, ongoing position – HS7
• Full time, 80 hours per fortnight including a monthly ADO
• Attractive staff remuneration and benefits

Bayside Health

Bayside Health is a public health service delivering high-quality care across every stage of life for close to 1.2 million people living in metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Koo Wee Rup, Bass Coast and Southern Gippsland. We have more than 15 main sites, including hospitals, centres and clinics that provide comprehensive care from welcoming newborns to supporting older people and a full range of services in between.

More than 22,000 dedicated staff are focussed on providing exceptional, equitable, and locally connected care through shared expertise, compassion, and a commitment to continuous growth. Education and training are central to staff development as we encourage all employees to strive and thrive. We encourage our team to challenge thinking and bring fresh ideas to the table, and our agile approach empowers us to focus on outcomes.

Bayside Health was formed following the merger of Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and Peninsula Health on 1 January 2026.

The Department

The Digital Health Division is responsible for enabling clinical staff to deliver timely, quality care to our patients and carers through innovative use of information technologies and through strategic management of information and data. The division leads technology procurement and support, cybersecurity, clinical applications, electronic medical records, digital strategy, data governance and enterprise transformation initiatives.

The Role – Position Summary 

 An exciting opportunity for a Head of Portfolio Management Office (PMO) has become available within the Strategy & Transformation team as part of Bayside Health’s Digital Health division. We are seeking a seasoned, confident, and collaborative PMO leader to scale a lean PMO team that provides portfolio governance, strategic delivery oversight, and project portfolio management capability uplift for Victoria's largest public healthcare organisations.

Partnering with senior leaders and cross-functional delivery teams, you will act as the link between strategic intent and execution, providing portfolio insights, shape prioritisation, and help balance delivery pace, capacity, risks, constraints and trade-off opportunities, while ensuring investments are aligned to strategic priorities. This role will be critical in ensuring Bayside Health delivers the right initiatives, at the right time, with the right governance, resources and controls to maximise organisational value. Your success will be measured by your ability to build confidence through visibility, transparent reporting, improved sequencing and dependency management, to create a more connected and coordinated delivery ecosystem.

Your key responsibilities:

• Design and own portfolio governance processes, project and program delivery methodologies, reporting standards, controls, tools, templates and quality assurance frameworks.
• Own aggregated portfolio decision registers, cross-program dependencies and delivery milestone status, integrated schedules, risks and issues, to provide real-time visibility of consolidated portfolio performance
• Own portfolio-level financial tracking and reporting, and contract administration activities
• Bring an enterprise perspective to portfolio execution, resolving systemic delivery challenges, competing priorities and macro execution issues that impact successful delivery of strategic outcomes.
• • Lead the orchestration of portfolio dependencies, ensuring initiatives are planned to optimise resource capacity and allocation, delivery flow and minimise execution risk.
  • Use data, insights and systems thinking to identify opportunities, remove friction and drive alignment across complex portfolios as part of quarterly planning business reviews and portfolio rebalancing cycles
  • Champion cultural reform, continuous improvement of PMO processes and adoption of modern delivery approaches, strengthening execution, driving accountability, transparency and consistent ways of working.

  Qualifications and Experience 

  • 15-20+ years PMO / portfolio management in Head of PMO roles or similar (including people leadership)
  • Tertiary qualifications in Business, Management, Engineering, Computer Science, ICT, or related discipline.
  • Formal portfolio management qualifications (SAFe LPM, P3O, MOP, PfMP etc. preferred)
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt / PROSCI Change Management or equivalent
  • Extensive experience in portfolio governance, integrated capacity planning, schedule and dependency management and sequencing, underpinned by expertise in modern lean-agile and hybrid delivery models.
  • Demonstrable experience in strategic product ownership, vendor management and expansion of portfolio management systems and tooling (e.g., Jira, Planview, PMO 365, OpenText, etc.)
  • Experience in leading and developing high-performing program and technical delivery teams.
  • Strong understanding of modern IT operations, software delivery and product-aligned operating models
  • Experience leading organisational change, capability uplift and large-scale technology transformation.
  • Demonstrated experience preparing executive and Board-level reporting and governance artefacts.
  • Exceptional stakeholder engagement, indirect influencing and change management skills, with the nous to champion new processes, systems and ways of working across diverse teams in matrixed environments.
  • Advanced knowledge of emerging PMO / PPM industry trends, practices and standards (PMI, PMBOK, P3M3, PRINCE2 Agile etc.), and an understanding of the impact on staff and business service models
  • Experience with health service mergers, acquisitions, integration or large-scale enterprise transformation.
  • Strong commercial acumen, enterprise leadership and ability to converge people around a shared outcome
  Desirable         
  
  • Understanding of fundamental software development and engineering practices (e.g., ITIL, REST, SDLC, etc.)
  • Knowledge of emerging technologies including AI / Agentic AI, automation, and digital innovation.
  • Credentials in health informatics, and / or public health management

  Benefits

  This is an opportunity to work with an amazing team in a growth area within public health and to have a real impact on patient care and outcomes. Additional benefits include:

  • Salary Packaging and Novated Car Leasing
  • Professional development opportunities and health and wellbeing initiatives
  • Flexible and hybrid remote working, with five weeks annual leave and monthly ADOs
  • Discounted car parking (subject to availability) as well as onsite gym and childcare services

  Applications close at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, 26 August 2026 

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, and people of all genders, sexualities, and cultural backgrounds.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application materials, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

In accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption.