If you’re looking for great work culture, great work life balance and flexible working, and opportunities to continuously learn and get involved with our … – this is the role for you!

Rabobank is the world’s leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our people who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for clients. Our commitment to our employees and clients is at the heart of everything we do.

About the Role

Rabobank is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise resilience program aligned to strategic and regulatory priorities. This is a critical leadership role responsible for translating strategy into executable change and delivering sustainable outcomes across a highly regulated financial services environment.

As Program Manager, you will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of a complex, multi-stream program. You will partner with senior executives, business and technology leaders, and external vendors to ensure delivery is on time, within budget, and compliant with regulatory obligations.

You will play a key role in embedding resilience capabilities across the bank, driving organisational change, and ensuring long-term benefit realisation.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership & Delivery

• Lead delivery of a large-scale, complex resilience program across multiple workstreams
• Establish integrated program plans, milestones, dependencies, and benefits frameworks
• Take accountability for scope, schedule, cost, and delivery outcomes
• Ensure benefits are realised and sustained post-implementation
• Drive organisational change, business readiness, and adoption outcomes
• Manage cross-program dependencies and resolve enterprise-level conflicts

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Establish robust governance aligned with Rabobank frameworks
• Manage program risks, issues, and regulatory obligations
• Deliver high-quality reporting for Executives, Board, and regulators
• Ensure alignment with risk appetite and strong non-financial risk outcomes

Financial & Resource Management

• Manage multi-million dollar budgets, forecasts, and financial controls
• Oversee internal teams and external vendors
• Ensure effective resource allocation and delivery capability
• Build and lead high-performing, multidisciplinary teams

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with senior business, technology, and risk leaders
• Act as the primary delivery point of accountability to the Executive Sponsor
• Influence across complex stakeholder environments and competing priorities

About You

Experience

• Proven track record delivering large-scale programs in financial services or regulated environments
• Strong experience engaging at Executive and Board level
• Deep understanding of governance, risk and compliance in banking
• Experience managing complex delivery models (Agile, SAFe or hybrid)
• Background in transformation, regulatory uplift, or resilience programs

Skills & Capabilities

• Exceptional program leadership and delivery expertise
• Advanced stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• Strong financial management and benefits realisation experience
• Excellent executive communication and reporting abilities
• Proven ability to manage ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in finance, business, or project management (required)
• PRINCE2, PMP, or equivalent certification (preferred)

What we're proud to offer you:

Rabo@Anywhere is our hybrid way of working at Rabobank and for Australia, that means we have a blend of time working between the office and home.

Wellbeing leave. These leave days support greater work/life balance and is just another way we are helping our employees to lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.

Education Assistance Program. Rabobank values the development of its people and has a great Education Assistance Program to assist with professional development.

Parental Leave that supports you and your family while giving you the freedom and flexibility to enjoy this special time (up-to 14 weeks paid leave)

Bonus and Additional Leave. We realise sometimes 4 weeks Annual Leave isn't enough! At Rabobank we provide an incentive for eligible employees to receive 1 extra week Annual Leave and an option to purchase another 2 weeks Annual Leave.

Extra Insurance. Rabobank recognises that employees need to protect their financial wellbeing, in the event of serious illness, injury, or even death. Rabobank provides eligible permanent employees with employer-funded Death, TPD and Income Protection Insurance.

Rabo Workplace Giving program. As part of Rabobank's global Corporate Social Responsibility, Workplace Giving aims to encourage employees to contribute to our community. Rabo Workplace Giving program matches employee donations to selected Social Partners.

Our Values

Rabobank Australia values inclusion, belonging, and positive experiences for all. Our work environment, our benefits, and the way we live our values, “Client Driven”, “Responsible”, “Professional” and “Cooperative” make it a great place to work. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds.

Please let our Talent Acquisition team know if you need any accommodations to make our opportunities more accessible to you.

Rabobank is not accepting submissions from recruitment agencies for this role.

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