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• Are you ready to orchestrate and support transformation capability building and partnering?
• Drive excellence and promote, enable, and lead collaboration to achieve better outcomes.

Summary

As the Strategy and Transformation Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving enterprise-wide transformation, embedding change maturity, and delivering strategic outcomes in partnership with our most senior leaders.

Your charter will see you will lead and drive strategic initiatives across the organisation, ensuring the successful delivery of programs that align with the company’s long-term vision and operational excellence goals. As a key member of the leadership team, this role is responsible for developing and executing transformation strategies that optimise processes, enhance efficiency, and support the evolution of our services in line with industry advancements and regulatory requirements.

In this influential role you will:

• Join a growing team which shapes aviation industry in Australia
• Be the leader of a team translating organisational strategy to execution across the board
• Under your leadership your team will deliver portfolio transformation, improve operation, calibrate revenues and set KPIs to achieve our strategic goals
• Join a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and service excellence.

The Organisation

Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world’s airspace and provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports.

Our people are our greatest asset with a dynamic and diverse team operating from locations across the country - from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. This team keep are helping to secure the future of Australia’s skies and keep it amongst the safest in the world.

We connect people with their world safely – linking family and friends, generating economic activity, creating jobs, and facilitating trade and tourism.

Airservices is committed to fostering a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and respectful.  We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service first mindset and embrace a challenge to explore a career with Airservices. In return you will be a valued team member, be offered flexibility and experience a meaningful career in an exciting, ever-evolving aviation industry.

Our Leaders

Leaders at Airservices demonstrate our Leadership Standard in the way they Know, Focus and Value our people every day. Our leaders role model our values of Safe always, Service first, Love what we do, Work as one, Own it to connect people with their world safely.

An Airservices leader leads inclusively, thinks strategically, collaborates and communicates with impact to deliver outcomes that support our culture of trust, care and accountability.

The Role & The Team

Your strategic thinking, ability to influence at all levels, and proven track record in transformational performance management will be essential to championing effective change leadership, delivery, and embedding of successful deliverables across the wider business.

You will build an effective working relationship with other Airservices staff to ensure that there is effective coordination of all activities in support of organisational objectives.

Qualifications & Competencies include:

• Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, or Aviation-related fields (Masters or MBA are preferred)
• 5+ years of Tier1 or 2 management consulting experience
• Proven experience in leading large-scale transformation programs, aviation experience is not a must have
• Strong background in operational strategy, and process optimization.
• Knowledge of regulated industries is desirable along with experience in stakeholder management, particularly in highly regulated environments.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to manage multi-million-dollar programs.

Please see the link below to view the full Position Description:

 PD - Strategy and Transformation Lead.docx

The Person

• Highly developed leadership skills that ensure broader business outcomes are achieved and value is delivered

• Exceptional verbal communication and ability to listen and share the story – resilience and passion for driving enterprise-wide transformation, embedding change maturity, and delivering strategic outcomes

• Highly honed advocacy, influencing, collaboration and persuasion skills

Airservices Australia is a diverse and inclusive employer that recognises the benefits of having a workforce that reflects the communities in which we work. We encourage applications from diverse groups including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.

Security Clearance 

To be eligible to apply, you must be an Australian Citizen or a Permanent resident as an Airservices Background check is required for this role. Please refer to the security check requirements successful applicants will be required to undertake as part of the recruitment process.

Should you require any further information please contact Christine Collins, TA Partner at Christine.collins@airservicesaustralia.com

How to Apply

To apply for this position please lodge an application online before Applications close 11.55 pm (AEST) Sunday 3 August 2025