Commercial Technology Portfolio & Investment Management | Senior Manager

This is offered as a 12-month Maximum-Term contract opportunity.

Our firmwide investment program is focused on scaling and enhancing our core client service offerings by augmenting our people with AI-powered tools to deliver greater value for clients. The program is establishing the commercial technology (CT) operating model, governance, and investment foundations needed to grow our AI-enabled offering pipeline across Lines of Service (LoS). This role is critical to ensuring CT investments are fiscally disciplined, ROI-accountable, and sustainably owned within the LoS over time.

Why PwC?

At PwC Australia, your skills meet purpose. We tackle big challenges across industries like finance, technology, energy, and health — giving you the chance to make a real impact. Here, your growth is our priority. You'll work with leading teams, explore new technologies, and unlock your full potential.

Join a global community of more than 370,000 people who value bold ideas, collaboration, and lasting change. Together, we're building trust and shaping the future.

What you'll do

Commercial Technology Innovation Front Door

• Design and operationalise the end-to-end intake pathway for CT ideas — from origination through triage, assessment, and progression into the pipeline.
• Align the front door with broader firm processes and tooling to ensure a single, coherent intake view across the firm.
• Establish the operating cadence, roles, and supporting tooling, then transition ownership progressively into LoS CT teams.

Benefits Realisation Framework

• Define the methodology, metrics, and business case standards for tracking CT investment benefits.
• Establish stage gates, re-baselining triggers, and post-investment review cadence to drive ongoing ROI accountability.
• Build reporting tooling and dashboards providing benefits visibility to CCTO, SteerCo, and executive sponsors.

FY27 Funding Allocation Model

• Design the allocation model for the CT investment.
• Define phased drawdown and approval mechanics (e.g., tranche-based, milestone-gated) aligned to SteerCo governance.
• Model allocation scenarios and recommend a preferred approach, anchored to the investment appraisal and benefits realisation frameworks.

Cross-cutting

• Produce SteerCo-grade artefacts.
• Provide connectivity into complementary program workstreams (trust, economic model) to ensure alignment without owning their outputs.

What we're looking for

• 8–12+ years in technology strategy, technology investment governance, portfolio management, transformation, or a top-tier consulting environment.
• Demonstrable experience designing technology intake / demand management / innovation governance processes in a complex, federated organisation.
• Strong track record building benefits realisation, business case, or ROI frameworks for technology investments — with practical, embedded outcomes (not just theoretical design).
• Experience designing or operating technology investment / funding allocation models, ideally at $20m+ portfolio scale.
• Comfort operating at the intersection of CIO/CTO stakeholders, Finance, and business sponsors.
• Strong commercial and financial literacy — able to model phased funding, build allocation logic, and challenge business cases.
• Excellent written communication; able to produce SteerCo-quality papers and frameworks.
• Pragmatic, bias-to-action mindset — comfortable in ambiguity, designing v1 frameworks that can iterate.

What you’ll gain

• The opportunity to work with leading organisations and cutting-edge technology that challenge and expand your expertise.
• Flexibility means trusting you to choose when, where, and how you work—balancing what’s best for you, your team, and your clients to grow and thrive together.
• Clear paths for career progression supported by continuous learning and leadership development.
• Generous leave entitlements to support your work-life balance - including floating public holidays, birthday leave and ability to purchase additional leave on top of your four weeks.
• A world-class parental leave policy offering up to 26 weeks of leave for caregivers, supporting your family and personal life.

We know that perks are as important as your financial rewards. Explore all the benefits that PwC has to offer here.

Ready to grow here and go further? Join PwC Australia as a Senior Manager and make an impact that goes beyond the expected. Apply now and take your next step with a team shaping the future.

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