Madalin Ciubotaru
Transforming Strategy into Enterprise Results | Change Management Practitioner | Enterprise Portfolio & Program Leader
Salary / Daily rate
Wellington, New Zealand
Mobility: Romania, Bucharest, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Change Management and Enterprise Portfolio consultant and practitioner with 20+ years of experience driving large-scale transformation across various business sectors. Expert in translating C-suite strategy into governed, deliverable portfolios — and in building the organizational, cultural, and structural alignment required to make change stick. Specialised in enterprise portfolio governance, change management practice establishment, and delivery maturity uplift across complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Recognised for combining strategic clarity with pragmatic execution — operating at the intersection of executive leadership, enterprise architecture, and human-centred change.
Work experience
Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Oct 2019 - Present
7 years 1 month
Wellington, New Zealand
Director, Strategic Digital Solutions
Oct 2024 - Present
2 years 1 month
Wellington, New Zealand
– Championed a whole-of-organization approach to change management, embedding structured change practice across delivery, architecture, product operating model, and CX/UX - resulting in improved adoption and higher ROI. – Redesigned enterprise portfolio governance from the ground up - introducing investment prioritisation frameworks, portfolio dashboards, and executive reporting that reduced decision lag by over 40% and restored confidence in delivery predictability across a NZD $30M+ change portfolio. – Shaped and governed the organization's AI-enabled digital roadmap, aligning executive priorities with realistic delivery sequencing - translating a fragmented set of technology aspirations into a coherent multi-year capability investment plan.
Head of Delivery - Strategic & Digital Portfolio
Oct 2019 - Oct 2024
5 years 1 month
Wellington, New Zealand
– Built and embedded three new organizational practices – Change Management, Product Management, and Business Partnership - from scratch, establishing capability that became central to how the organization executes strategic change. These practices directly improved delivery performance across a portfolio spanning 10+ concurrent programs. – Led end-to-end delivery of the organization's five-year digital and enterprise strategic transformation roadmap, including cloud migration, CRM (Dynamics 365), IAM, BI/data platform, and student systems modernisation. – Orchestrated a structural shift from project-centric to product-centric delivery - redesigning team structures, governance and executive engagement models, in a way that sustained delivery momentum through significant organizational change, including COVID-19 disruption. – Led change management programs that achieved executive-level alignment and frontline adoption across a workforce of 600+ staff - increasing technology uptake through structured engagement, communication planning, and leadership coaching.
Senior Delivery Consultant (Contract)
Trustees Executors | PAE New Zealand
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
11 months
Wellington, New Zealand
– Designed a fully costed three-year transformation roadmap for a financial services organisation — including benefits realisation modelling valued at NZD $4.5M in operational savings — providing the executive team with a clear, investable path from legacy operations to modern service delivery.
Program Manager (Contract)
Department of Corrections Spark New Zealand
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 3 months
Wellington, New Zealand
– Successfully delivered a security-critical, large-scale telecommunications program valued at NZD $12M+ within a tightly regulated government environment — on time and without compliance incidents, despite significant stakeholder complexity and union sensitivities across 15+ correctional facilities. – Rebuilt trust and engagement with government, legal, and operational stakeholders following a period of delivery stagnation - applying structured change and communication frameworks that restored executive confidence and compressed the remaining delivery schedule by four months.
Program Lead / Senior Project Manager (Contract)
Spark New Zealand
Jul 2012 - Apr 2017
4 years 10 months
Wellington, New Zealand
– Shaped enterprise transformation solutions for major public and private sector clients — contributing to winning bids valued at tens of millions of dollars by translating customer outcomes into credible, commercially sound delivery propositions. – Governed complex, vendor-led programs spanning multiple technical and commercial partners — introducing dependency management, financial tracking, and delivery assurance disciplines that kept programs on track in volatile commercial environments.
Senior Project Manager (Contract)
ANZ Bank New Zealand
Apr 2011 - Jul 2012
1 year 4 months
Wellington, New Zealand
– Delivered a bank-wide (6,500+ users) User Access Management transformation under strict regulatory timelines — achieving full compliance without business disruption, across a workforce of thousands of users and multiple technology environments.
National Information Systems Project Manager
CCS Disability Action
Aug 2006 - Apr 2011
4 years 9 months
Wellington, New Zealand
– Led a multi-year, organisation-wide CRM implementation that was nominated for a national technology award - consolidating fragmented case management data across 14 regional offices into a single, integrated platform and reducing administrative overhead by an estimated 30%. – Designed and executed a comprehensive change programme for a workforce of 350+ frontline disability support workers — achieving 90%+ system adoption within three months of go-live through structured training, peer champion networks, and targeted communication campaigns.
Progressive Roles
Orange Romania and Vaillant Romania
Jan 1999 - Jan 2006
7 years 1 month
50055 Romanina, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy
– Building foundational expertise in fast-growth commercial environments.
Education
Victoria University of Wellington
MBA, Management of Information Systems
2008 - 2012
4 years 9 months
– Merit
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
Bachelor of Management, Economic Management
1997 - 2001
3 years 10 months
Licenses & certifications
Management of Portfolios
Issued: Jun 2022
Agile Delivery
Issued: Jun 2021
PROSCI Change Management
Issued: Mar 2020
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Issued: Aug 2014
PMI
Issued: Nov 2012