Senior Manager - Product Practice Standards and Adoption

As a Senior Manager, Product Practice Standards and Adoption, you will make Product Practice standards real across Westpac. Partnering with leaders and practitioners, you will embed the right ways of working, remove barriers to adoption and use evidence from practice to continuously improve standards, tools, frameworks and the practitioner experience across Westpac.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Standards Adoption and Embedding: Lead adoption of standards, paved roads, patterns and reusable capabilities across assigned Delivery Units.
• Practitioner Experience and Coaching: Coach leaders and practitioner communities, identify ideate on ways to remove common frictions.
• Standards Evolution: Participates in pilots and distinguishes whether friction is caused by standards, capability, tooling, governance or adoption.
• Measurement, Governance and Improvement: Maintains a portfolio view of adoption maturity, practitioner experience, exceptions and interventions along with championing improvements across aligned practice areas.
   

What do I need?

To be successful in this role you should have a deep knowledge of agile ways of working, demonstrated experience with the product ownership craft, and be able to partner with various levels of stakeholders. You will be able to be data driven and have a growth mindset. 

Additional skills and experience required include: 

• Deep Product Practice and product ownership expertise
• Standards application and practitioner coaching
• Change leadership and adoption
• Practitioner experience and continuous improvement
• Governance and risk-informed decision making
• Systems thinking and problem solving