About Ampol

Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow.

Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose comes from the people, businesses, industries and communities we engage with. From our origins until today, we’ve always been inspired by the role we can play in people’s lives – to keep them moving, to make journeys happen. Here at Ampol, we are proud of our heritage as Australia’s only owned fuel brand.

For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for 100 more powering better journeys for today and tomorrow. Tomorrow comes with the need to navigate the energy transition, and by playing a key role in the broader decarbonisation of transport, we have defined an ambitious decarbonisation strategy to reach net zero emissions on an absolute basis across our operations by 2040.

About the role:


The Retail Systems team own and management the mass deployment of retail technology across Ampol sites.

You will be responsible for the planning and leading retail system deployment plans, including scheduling, budgeting, setting metrics, training, pilot programs and resource management. Leading a team of two, you will support the deployment of both hardware and software as apart of new project rollouts, upgrades, maintenance, and acquisitions.


You’ll work with both internal and external stakeholders, with responsibly across deployment operations and vendor management.


Key Deliverables:

Project Delivery:

• Create and manage the deployment plan and ensure all impacted parties are engaged and briefed accurately.
• Support deployment approaches for Saa S application architectures, with contingency planning and playbooks to execute in case of failure
• Coordinate testing of releases and represent changes to the Change Control Board prior to deployment
• Manage project scope end to end, and act as a point of escalation for scope changes, and ensure impacts to time or cost are managed within change control guidelines
• Conduct Quarterly reviews of deployment activities and operations

Vendor Management

• Ensure prudent commercial procurement decisions are made in the selection of delivery partners, and statements of work are negotiated and managed.
• Ensure vendors are engaged on projects are meeting the critical elements of their commercial SOWs, and works to maintain a high level of vendor service delivery

People Leadership:

• Provide leadership, Direction and profession development of IT Project Managers ensuring skills and knowledge growth in line with project requirements
• Recruiting/Selecting project resouces – both permanent and contract – as business requirements/funding dictate

You’ll take us further with:

• 7-10 years of experience in leading deployments at scale in Retail businesses.
• Experience in managing deployments to sites distributed across
• Australia including regional areas.
• Sound general IT experience (applications and/or infrastructure) including systemic knowledge of IT development, operational and change management processes and methodologies
• Strong vendor management skills and holding them to account for delivery
• Ability to think on the feet to solve problems arising in the ground during deployment and/or guide vendors.
• Demonstrated capacity for translating thought into action and being fully accountable for results.
• Proactive nature to ensure constant awareness and knowledge of changes in operation throughout the Ampol business
• Energetic self-starter, ability to quickly establish relationships with other project members and SMEs Thrives in complex and ambiguous situations
• Working knowledge of TIL processes and their application.
• Ability to develop confidence, presence, and influence within and outside function
• Planning, prioritisation, organisational skills and the capacity to be flexible in balancing priorities to meet/exceed customer needs

We’ll take you further by:

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including Linked In Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• Baby Care Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Leave Options – Up to 6 weeks annual leave and additional Wellbeing leave days.
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.

We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.

If we’ve got your interest, we encourage you to submit an application because we would love to tell you more. Click ‘Apply Online’ below to register your interest.