Orchard - Project Director (Digital Transformation & Delivery)

We're looking for a Project Director to own delivery across one of our most significant client portfolios. This is a player-coach role: you'll lead and run complex programs yourself while setting the standard for how delivery works across the team, developing the PMs around you, and holding accountability for portfolio health, commercial performance, and client confidence.

What You'll Own

Portfolio governance — you maintain a live, trusted view of the program: milestones, dependencies, risks, and revenue. You pre-empt problems. You don't manage them in crisis.

Commercial accountability — you own the numbers. Budget vs actual vs forecast, change control, margin recovery. If a project is tracking off-plan, you flag it early with a view on recovery not after the write-off. You also keep a close eye on pipeline: spotting forecast dips before they become gaps, identifying growth opportunities within existing clients, and actively contributing to new business efforts.

Team leadership — you lead, coach, and develop a team of PMs with genuine investment. You build structures where work is owned at the right level, people are empowered to deliver, and you are not the single point of everything.

Client partnership — you are the senior delivery contact. You work in close partnership with Account Direction (not instead of them), translating business objectives into executable programs and building the kind of delivery credibility that retains and grows clients.

AI & continuous improvement — you use Claude and other AI tools as a genuine part of how you work. You bring new thinking back to the team, trial better ways of doing things, and help build Orchard's AI delivery capability from the inside out.

At Orchard, we believe technology can make lives better for businesses, brands, and the people behind them. We exist to invent better outcomes through creativity and technology, and our delivery team is the engine that makes it real.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years in digital delivery, agency experience preferred
• Proven track record across complex, multi-program portfolios $6M+ revenue responsibility
• Sharp commercial instincts: you understand margin, you own forecasts, you manage change
• A people-first approach to team leadership you invest in the people running the system, not just the system itself
• Systems thinker who builds frameworks that scale and empowers others to carry them
• Calm, transparent, and decisive under pressure you surface risk honestly and present clear options
• Hungry for growth you spot opportunities within existing clients and actively pursue new business; you see pipeline health as part of your job, not someone else's
• Comfortable with ambiguity you don't wait for a perfect brief to get moving; you create structure where there isn't any and make calls with incomplete information
• Active user of AI tools with genuine curiosity about where it's heading
• Committed to self-directed learning and bringing new thinking to the team

Why Orchard?

We're a creative and technology agency with serious delivery credentials part of ASX-listed Enero Group with a client portfolio spanning health, consumer, and automotive sectors across Australia and the US.

You'll join a PM leadership cohort that genuinely raises the bar people who care about craft, build real capabilities, and invest in each other. You'll have direct access to senior leadership, genuine autonomy in how you lead, and the chance to shape how AI changes delivery at one of the most progressive agencies in the market.

If you're the kind of person who turns ambiguity into structure, builds teams that don't need you for every answer, and gets genuinely excited about what AI can do for delivery we'd love to hear from you.

Apply with your CV and a short note on what great delivery leadership looks like to you.

Orchard Marketing is part of the Enero Group. As a Group, we proudly acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Our Innovate, Level 2, RAP endorsement aims to nurture, develop, encourage, and include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent, partners, and advisors both in our own agency, and across the broader industry. As such, we encourage peoples of all backgrounds to apply.