# Project Manager - Automotive

**Company**: Podium
**Location**: Melbourne, Australia
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $650/month
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

As a Project Manager - Automotive at Podium, you will own the implementation of large and complex customers, leading multi-location, multi-product rollouts, and ensuring a seamless transition onto the Podium platform.

Responsibilities:

- Own end-to-end onboarding for large dealer groups and OEMs

- Build project plans covering milestones, timelines, deliverables, dependencies, and responsibilities

- Coordinate pilots, staged rollouts, and group-wide deployments

- Act as primary project contact for dealer group executives, head office stakeholders, and third-party providers

- Set clear communication cadences and run progress reviews and status updates

- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Technical Support, Integrations, and CX teams to deliver integrations, AI configuration, testing, and training

- Track location-level readiness, training completion, and go-live milestones

- Identify risks and roadblocks early, escalate where needed, and drive resolution

- Maintain project documentation, action registers, and implementation trackers

- Build repeatable templates and processes to help scale Podium's enterprise onboarding framework

Requirements:

- 3-5+ years of experience in project management, implementation management, or enterprise customer onboarding

- Proven experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, locations, or business units

- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects

- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills

- Demonstrated ability to manage timelines, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities

- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority

- A proactive, solutions-focused approach to problem-solving

- Experience using project management tools such as Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheet, or similar

Nice to Have:

- Experience in the automotive industry, particularly with dealership groups, OEMs, or automotive technology providers

- Experience implementing SaaS platforms or enterprise technology solutions

- Familiarity with CRM systems, third-party integrations, AI products, or customer communication platforms

- Experience coordinating technical implementations involving multiple external vendors

- Experience managing phased rollouts across geographically dispersed locations

- Project management certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile qualifications

Benefits:

- Health and Wellbeing Benefits

- $650/month allowance

- 4 weeks of annual leave

- Melbourne CBD Office

- Snacks and drinks always stocked

- Catered lunch the last week of every month

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- implementation management
- enterprise customer onboarding
- communication
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- automotive industry
- SaaS platforms
- CRM systems
- third-party integrations
- AI products

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