Senior Manager Strategy and Planning
Warrigal | Located at our newly built Oak Flats office
Join a award-winning Illawarra-based organisation celebrated for Excellence in Workplace Culture, Large Business, and Business of the Year. If youre ready to use your values-based leadership, analytical expertise, and project management skills to shape the future of aged care, we want you on our team.
About Warrigal
At Warrigal, our values Integrity, Respect, Innovation and Compassion – guide our approach and our vision is simple yet profound: to create a world where older people feel known, loved, and connected. Guided by our purposeEnabling older people live their best lives on their termswere dedicated to providing dignity, community, and belonging.
We believe in creating joyful experiences, lasting memories, and a society that celebrates aging. Every team member at Warrigal contributes to this legacy, ensuring it continues to inspire generations to come.
The opportunity
As Senior Manager Strategy and Planning, youll work directly with the CEO, Executive Team, and Senior Leaders to bring Warrigals vision to life. This is your chance to lead with purpose, turning strategic goals into actionable outcomes that deliver meaningful results in aged care.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Engaging our Board, Chief Executive Officer and Executive in the ongoing development and review of the strategy. Assisting in deploying the strategy into actionable planning instruments.
- Designing and overseeing systems which develop, review and drive performance. This would also measure the impact.
- Collaborating with leaders across the organisation to align corporate services with strategic goals, improving both efficiency and outcomes.
- Oversighting Warrigals Enterprise Project Management Office (ePMO) to ensure seamless coordination of business planning, always prioritising customer needs.
- Oversighting our organisation policy development and developing our policy framework
- Managing a diverse portfolio of functions which also includes office management and executive support coordination.
This is a hands-on leadership role where your ability to analyse, plan, and manage complex projects will directly contribute to Warrigals success. Some interstate or inter-office travel may be required.
What Youll Bring
- Strong leadership and analytical skills, with a proven track record of successful project and change management.
- The ability to build strong partnerships across all levels of an organisation.
- A passion for driving operational excellence and delivering results that make a tangible difference.
- An understanding of aged care or not-for-profit sectors (highly desirable).
What We Offer | Recognising Your Value
At Warrigal, we value and reward your contribution:
- Competitive Salary: Based on experience super packaging benefits inclusive of ADOs and leave loading.
- Not-for-Profit Salary Packaging: Save up to $18,550 in tax annually.
- Career Development: Ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities.
- Wellbeing Benefits: Subsidised access to gyms nationwide with Fitness Passport.
- Comprehensive Support: 24/7 access to mental, physical, social, and financial wellbeing resources via LifeWorks.
Lead with Purpose
Join us in creating a better future for aged care. At Warrigal, youll have the opportunity to drive positive change and help shape an organisation that truly values peopleboth our customers and our team.
Apply now to be part of something bigger.
What it takes to do this work
Essential:
- Strong commitment to Warrigal’s values: Integrity, Respect, Innovation, and Compassion.
- Extensive experience in strategy or management consulting, preferably with top-tier firms or in corporate strategy roles.
- Degree in a relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Management, Commerce, or similar).
- Expertise in various strategic services: corporate, executive, portfolio, customer, segment, operational, and capability strategies, with a focus on successful execution.
- Proven success in managing large-scale projects and tackling complex challenges.
- Willingness to embrace risk and encourage innovation.
- A customer-first mindset, prioritising the customer experience.
- Build strong, collaborative partnerships to advance strategic goals and improve practices.
- Experience working in an executive office or high-level environment.
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking skills with the ability to implement systems and procedures to meet deadlines and standards.
- Proven leadership skills in delegating and directing strategic initiatives.
- Ability to effectively communicate key information to diverse audiences through reports and presentations.
- Sound decision-making, collaboration skills, and the ability to identify opportunities and solutions independently.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Lead and manage change processes, using strong analytical thinking.
- Experience managing diverse portfolios.
- Expertise in researching, synthesising, and interpreting complex information, with the ability to present clear and concise reports and recommendations.
- High-level project management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other computing tools.
Desirable:
- Experience in the aged care or human services sector.
What our people love about working here:
A supportive, passionate culture: Its a community filled with inspiring, big-hearted people. We back each other, listen without judgement and lead with kindness, respect and unwavering support – for our customers, residents and each other. This is encouraged from the top down and worked hard at every day.
Leaders who value you: Its important you feel valued. To us, this is not a one-off task. But a commitment to creating an environment where you feel seen, heard and valued every day. Leaders and managers go out of their way to understand you, respect your opinions and hear what you have to say. This creates greater unity and collaboration with each other.
One team, united in our purpose: We support older people to have great lives. We put older people first in everything we do. On an everyday level, we help them age with dignity, independence, happiness and connectedness. On a big picture level, were challenging ageist thinking in Australia. This is the Warrigal Way.
Who we are | A community who cares
Warrigal has firmly established itself in the aged care community for over 60 years. Were proud of the diverse range of retirement living, support at home and aged care services weve built up in that time, but we still have the same appetite to grow and innovate.
Do work that matters to you
This is your chance to do work that matters and make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australias older community now and in the future.
JOIN US AND BE THE DIFFERENCE
We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, workers of all abilities, ages and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to apply and join our community.
Are you keen? Then dont delay applying. We review applications as we get them and will close the vacancy once we find the right person.
Any questions? You can contact but please dont send applications through email we cant accept them.
If successful, you may be asked to do a medical, National Criminal History Check or NDIS Worker Screening Check, and provide references.
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