Identity Project Manager

About Us

Chemist Warehouse Retail is Australia’s largest retail pharmacy group with over 20,000 employees across our 600+ national store network. With a growing international presence in New Zealand, Ireland, China & Dubai - now is the time to join us.

About The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Project Manager to drive identity-related initiatives from end to end. You’ll be managing multiple cyber projects, ensuring high-quality outcomes while keeping things moving in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll play a key role in shaping our identity capability landscape, with the flexibility to take on other high-priority projects as directed by leadership. If you’re someone who thrives on variety and values autonomy while being supported by a dedicated team—this could be your next big move.

Job Description

The primary focus and responsibilities of this role are:

• Perform the project planning, project coordination and execution of cyber security projects as per direction from the General Manager – Cyber & Risk, including technology implementations, process improvements, compliance initiatives, and risk remediation.
• Ensure project objectives are aligned with organisational cyber and identity strategy, risk appetite, and compliance frameworks such as ISO27001 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
• Manage project teams, schedules, and vendors to achieve milestones, resolve issues, and deliver expected outcomes.
• Provide regular status reporting, escalate risks and issues appropriately, and maintain stakeholder alignment throughout project lifecycles.
• Promote project management best practices and contribute to the uplift of cybersecurity delivery capability across the organisation, through alignment with the EPMO

Role Responsibilities

• Deliver identity access security initiatives such as Identity & Access Management, Identity Governance & Administration, Privileged Access Management uplift, and how they integrate into incident response systems and other co-related cybersecurity projects.
• Work closely with Cyber, IT, and Business stakeholders to define project scopes, goals, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop detailed project plans and manage all aspects of project lifecycle including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.
• Ensure resource availability and allocation for delivery of project activities.

About You

• Preferred minimum Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or relevant business systems discipline(s).
• Ideally relevant Industry Certificates in the domain of experience(s).
• Minimum of 5 years experience within IT and IT Security projects.
• Strong project management and oversight, commerciality with the ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive initiatives to completion
• Prefered experience with an identity project and implementation of identity platform(s), especially in the Okta or Microsoft technology stack(s).
• Demonstrated ability to apply critical thinking and problem solving
• Excellent written and verbal communications and presentation skills coupled with a professional approach.
• Strong communicator with proven skills for cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills for tailoring messages for various audiences.

Benefits

• Career growth and development opportunities in a supportive and collaborative working environment
• Access to discounts across all our affiliated brands, as well as other retail partnerships
• Subsided café on-site
• Free annual flu vaccinations