About the role:
The Senior Consultant - Engagement Lead is a senior delivery role within Comunet, responsible for end‑to‑end client engagement, project delivery leadership and relationship management.
This role blends project governance, and client management, ensuring successful delivery outcomes and alignment between client needs and Comunet service capability.
We expect you to bring client leadership, project management, and a broad understanding of how IT aligns with business objectives. You will be technically confident and experienced in managing projects, teams, and client relationships at a senior level.
Client Engagement & Relationship Leadership
* Serve as a primary engagement lead for allocated strategic clients.
* Build and maintain strong, trusted client executive-level relationships through proactive engagement, a clear understanding of client needs, and a focus on long term partnership value and exceptional service.
* Lead regular client engagement activities including steering committees, roadmap sessions, and service reviews.
* Ensure communications, expectations, and outcomes are aligned with client strategic objectives.
* Industry Knowledge: Maintain awareness of industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure relevant, innovative, and forward-looking advice for clients.
Project & Delivery Leadership
* Lead multidisciplinary project engagements from scoping to completion.
* Oversee project governance requirements including reporting, risk management, schedule tracking, and change control.
* Provide delivery assurance ensuring adherence to methodology and client expectations.
Consulting & Advisory
* Conduct strategic consulting engagements including IT reviews and transformation plans.
* Assist in creating client strategic technology roadmaps including organizational impacts and project prioritisation.
* Guide clients through business case development and readiness planning.
Mentoring & Practice Contribution
* Mentor consultants and technical staff as required.
* Contribute to standardised delivery approaches and frameworks.
* Lead internal knowledge sharing and capability uplift sessions. sharing and capability uplift sessions.
* Contribute to the development of skills and knowledge across the consulting and services teams.
Key Skills and Capabilities
Essential
* Strong project management capability across IT and Cloud projects
* Experience in senior stakeholder management
* Ability to translate business needs into delivery plans
* Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
* Awareness of industry trends and emerging technologies to provide innovative guidance to clients
Desirable
* PMP, PRINCE2, Agile certifications
* Experience in cloud, modern workplace, cyber or software delivery environments
* Experience in consulting or professional services organisations
Benefits
Competitive market salary
Flexible working conditions
Mobility allowance
Training opportunities
Birthday leave
A package relevant to experience and credentials will be tailored to suit the candidate.
About Comunet:
At Comunet, we love technology. But more than that, we love helping clients use technology to build better businesses. We've been on an everchanging technology journey for over 30 years and have seen the challenges first-hand with hundreds of businesses and what this means for them - in trying to maintain currency, with costs, security and the inevitable 'future-proofing' in mind.
We have deep expertise across Infrastructure, Networking, Cloud, Modern Application Development and embedded Cyber Security and drive a continuous improvement and innovation program across all of our teams to ensure we maintain our position as a leading provider of technology services.
We offer a published Employee Value Proposition (https://comunet.com.au/careers/employee-offer/) to expand on salary and package offers includes dedicated training budgets and time allocation, fully stocked pantry and fridge, regular team and whole of organization events and opportunities for flexible working and purchased additional annual leave.
We believe in making work a fun place to be, and we work hard to maintain our culture while providing exceptional service to our clients.
How to Apply
We'd love a cover letter with your CV, and as this is active ongoing recruitment process the position may be filled with the right applicant before the published closing date - so encourage applications as early as possible.
By submitting an application to Comunet, you acknowledge that we will undertake workforce screening activities including, but not limited to: Reference checks, National Crime and Right to Work Checks and Identity and certification verification.
Only candidates that are short listed will be contacted.