Portfolio Change Manager

Perth Airport is Australia’s Western Hub connecting the people, businesses and communities of Western Australia with the rest of Australia and the world. Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the year, Perth Airport plays a significant role in providing economic, social and cultural benefits to West Australians. 

Perth Airport is investing more than $5 billion in new infrastructure so we can support our airline partners to grow, offering more services to new destinations and an improved customer experience. 

Over the coming decade we will expand T1 International, and build new domestic terminal facilities, a parallel runway, two multi-storey carparks and our first airport hotel. This will deliver one airport for the people of Western Australia which will host all flight services in a central location giving passengers a seamless, world-class travel experience. 

The Perth Airport estate is spread over 2100 hectares and has developed a $1.5 billion portfolio of existing industrial premises and significant vacant land holdings. 

We service a truly diverse community and play an important role in strengthening cultural, family and social bonds while supporting business, tourism and leisure travel. 

About the role 

Perth Airport is undertaking a significant capital portfolio to support future growth and deliver safe, reliable and efficient airport operations. We are seeking an experienced Portfolio Change Manager to lead the people-side of change across our Capital Portfolio, shaping how new ways of working, systems, processes and organisational structures are designed, adopted and sustained. 

Working in close partnership with our Capital Portfolio Partner and key stakeholders across Projects and Planning, you will build a structured change approach that improves readiness, increases engagement, and reduces delivery risk. You will translate complex program activity into clear communications, practical transition plans and fit-for-purpose training, enabling teams to confidently move from project delivery into operational adoption, along with: 

• Develop and deliver end-to-end change management plans for major capital works, including change strategy, integrated schedules, resourcing, and governance.
• Identify, assess and actively manage change risks and dependencies, minimising impacts to program timelines, cost, safety, and quality.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and change leadership across the business, building alignment with the Delivery Strategy and establishing strong sponsorship, buy-in and advocacy.
• Conduct change impact and readiness assessments, translating findings into practical actions (e.g., transition plans, cutover activities, role impacts, and capability uplift).
• Design and deliver fit-for-purpose communications and learning solutions that support adoption of new systems, processes, procedures and ways of working.
• Partner with project teams to embed change activities into delivery, building trust, removing barriers, and supporting consistent outcomes across the portfolio.
• Measure adoption and effectiveness of change initiatives, using feedback and data to refine plans and sustain improvements post-implementation.
• Provide specialist coaching and advice on change methodology, tools and practices, lifting change maturity across a complex infrastructure environment.
• Support portfolio delivery through hands-on change management across planning, design, construction and commissioning phases to enable operational handover and adoption.
• Contribute to other portfolio priorities as reasonably directed by the leadership team.

About You 

You are a confident, outcomes-focused change leader who can operate in a complex program environment and bring people with you through ambiguity. You combine structured methodology with a practical, collaborative style, building strong relationships, tailoring your approach to different audiences, and ensuring change is embedded and sustained in operations. To be successful in this role, you will have: 

• Tertiary qualification in Business, Organisational Development, Engineering, Project/Program Management (or similar), or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Significant change management experience, ideally in large-scale infrastructure/capital works or complex program environments, delivering measurable adoption outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of change principles, tools and governance; certification (e.g., Prosci) is desirable.
• Proven ability to lead and influence diverse stakeholders (frontline to executive), with clear, confident communication and strong relationship-building.
• Strong analytical and planning capability, able to assess impacts/readiness, manage risk and dependencies, and translate complexity into practical transition, communication and training plans.
• Comfortable working across delivery methodologies (Agile/Waterfall) and capital works lifecycle stages (planning, design, construction, commissioning and handover), balancing multiple priorities with a pragmatic, outcomes focus.

About Us 

We offer a dynamic and supportive team culture, a contemporary workplace with great facilities and a modern approach to work/life integration. Our competitive remuneration package comes with additional company benefits including free parking.

Grow your career with mentoring, development and project exposure. 

Perth Airport is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to building an equitable and diverse workforce representative of the community we serve. We encourage and welcome applications from all communities and backgrounds. 

Doing the right thing by the planet and future generations is important to us. At PAPL we place a strong emphasis on embedding sustainability throughout our business strategy and operations. We remain steadfast in our commitment to driving ESPG (Environmental, Social, People, Governance) performance across our value chain and areas that have material environmental and social impact. 

If this sounds like you, please get in touch.