What’s the role?
As Senior Manager, Performance & Operational Strategy, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how performance is measured, reported and improved across Virtual Banking. Reporting to the Head of Partnerships & Operational Strategy, you'll lead the end-to-end performance management and governance framework, ensuring leaders have accurate, timely and actionable insights to make informed decisions and drive business outcomes.
You'll be responsible for developing executive reporting, operational scorecards, KPIs and OKRs, while providing strategic analysis and performance insights across internal and partner operations. Working closely with stakeholders across Workforce Planning, Finance, Operations, Customer Experience, Risk and Supplier Management, you'll identify opportunities to improve productivity, customer outcomes and operational effectiveness.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the development and continuous improvement of executive and operational reporting, performance dashboards and governance frameworks.
- Delivering strategic performance analysis, business insights and recommendations to support decision-making and future planning.
- Establishing and governing scorecards, KPIs and OKRs to drive accountability and business performance.
- Supporting workforce governance, planning and capacity discussions to optimise operational outcomes.
- Overseeing partner performance frameworks, governance forums and reporting obligations.
- Driving a culture of continuous improvement through data-driven insights and evidence-based recommendations.
What will I need?
We're looking for a commercially minded leader with strong analytical capability and a passion for turning complex data into meaningful business outcomes. You'll be highly influential, naturally collaborative and comfortable working with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
- Significant experience in performance management, operational strategy, workforce planning, business performance or analytics roles. [
- Experience developing executive reporting, scorecards, KPIs and OKRs to drive performance outcomes.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills, with experience partnering with senior leaders.
- Expertise in reporting and data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Excel and other analytics platforms.
- Strategic thinking, commercial acumen and the ability to connect operational performance to broader business objectives.
- A tertiary qualification in Business, Commerce, Economics, Mathematics, Data Analytics or a related discipline.
- Experience within large-scale operational, service or contact centre environments will be highly regarded.
Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers’ #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
- A variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank
- Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives
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