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As one of Australia's largest profit-for-members superannuation funds, we always remember whose money it is and whose future we're looking after. We work to reimagine a new way forward for our 1.1 million members and their communities. Each other. And our world.
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Your New Role
As we continue to deliver on our 2030 strategy, we’re looking for a Senior Manager, Group Strategy & Planning to play a central role in shaping the Fund’s strategic direction and ensuring it translates into tangible outcomes.
This is a high-impact, enterprise facing role where you’ll sit at the heart of strategy development, strategic planning and executive decision-making.
In this role, you will:
- Lead the end-to-end annual strategic planning cycle, connecting strategy to execution across the Fund
- Translate strategic objectives into clear enterprise priorities, initiatives and funding decisions
- Drive value-based prioritisation and trade-offs, ensuring resources are aligned to what matters most
- Provide visibility of strategic progress, roadmaps and delivery performance to senior leaders
- Partner with the business to develop and shape strategy, including growth opportunities and new propositions
- Conduct market, competitor and industry analysis to inform strategic direction and decision-making
- Deliver high-quality insights, reports and presentations for Executive and Board audiences
- Facilitate workshops and working sessions to align stakeholders and test strategic direction
- Provide clear, fact-based recommendations to support prioritisation and enterprise decision-making
- Build strong cross-functional relationships to enable whole-of-fund thinking and strategic alignment
How do you exceed our expectations?
You’re a strategic thinker who thrives in ambiguity and can translate complex problems into clear, actionable plans.
You'll bring:
- Experience in strategy consulting or corporate strategy
- Proven delivery of enterprise strategic planning cycles
- Strong problem-solving capability with a structured, analytical approach
- Ability to connect strategy to execution (OKRs, KPIs, planning frameworks)
- Experience preparing and presenting Executive and Board-level materials
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Confidence facilitating workshops and aligning senior leaders
- Experience in superannuation or financial services is beneficial, but not essential
Employee Experience
We understand that not everyone works in the same ways. We value flexibility and know that it helps you manage work and life.
Why you’ll love working at Aware Super:
- Have a super impact: You’ll think big and care deeply to help more Australians live their best lives in retirement.
- Be part of something super unique: You’ll work to reshape super and retirement. We’ll invest in your growth and give you the opportunity to work on career-defining projects.
- Work with super humans: You’ll work hard and innovate, but also have some fun along the way.
- Feel super cared for: We’ll support your wellbeing today, as well as in the future. Enjoy a health & fitness reimbursement, work from home technology reimbursement, salary continuance insurance and organisation-wide meeting free zones.
The Aware Super difference
At Aware Super, we believe that diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our members and communities and a stronger sense of belonging for our people. We value a diverse workplace and strongly encourage women, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, people with cultural and linguistic diversity, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and mature-age individuals to apply. We are proud to be consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and our CEO, Deanne Stewart, is a Pay Equity Ambassador.
