Head of Strategy - Perth, Australia - Water Corporation

Water Corporation

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Perth, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Head of Strategy & Performance

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11OP

Primary Location WA-Perth - Inner-John Tonkin Water Centre - Leederville

Organization Strategy & Performance
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Permanent opportunity
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Competitive salary plus generous benefits
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Flexible work arrangements

Working for Water Corporation means you'll be part of an essential workforce on a very important mission - to secure Western Australia's most precious resource in the face of climate change.

You'll get to work flexibly alongside innovators, creators, thinkers and doers to make a meaningful difference to lives all over WA.

A role at Water Corporation can unlock the door to ongoing long term career development opportunities; we also support training and development, flexible work arrangements, health and lifestyle programs and generous company benefits.

About the role:

This position leads the Water Corporation's strategic planning process which includes the assessment of external trends assessment, coordination of the process to set corporate direction, business planning to convert it to action and corporate performance monitoring of the strategy.

The Head of provides support to the Board, Executive, General Managers, and Senior Managers.

You'll work in Leederville. It's a small, but vibrant suburb with plenty of cafes and nice places to eat. And you'll only have to walk 5 to 6 minutes from the train station to get to your desk.

What the role will involve:

Supporting the Chief Finance Officer to discharge their accountability to run a prudent and effective strategic planning process.
Supporting the Executive as a team to review and set the Corporate Strategy, including corporate objectives and key executive actions for the year.
Supporting and advising individual General Managers in the development of substrategies, transformation programs and business plans.
Communicate, facilitate, and influence decision making in the areas of holistic strategic planning process, strategy formation and monitoring, business planning and performance reporting
Influencing managers and corporate processes to ensure that employees within the business have a clear understanding of how their work contributes to the strategic and operational direction of the organisation.
As a member of the Corporation's Senior Management Team, actively contribute to the development and execution of strategy, setting of performance measures, design, and achievement of key business objectives.
You will work with teams to determine the optimal methods to utilise data to provide practical, valueadded analysis for decision making.

Key skills and experience:

You are a strategy and performance leader at heart.

Every fibre of you ensures your managers and their teams assess change, plan effective action, and deliver against their business objectives and plans.

Your background and wide-ranging grasp of strategy development, business planning and performance reporting gives you the insights to continually improve ways of working - and find better outcomes for customers.

You believe your extensive experience and proven achievement of leading, developing, implementing is second to none.

It'll be your enthusiasm and commitment to a vison of cultural improvements towards value-based behaviours and business change that will pave your route to success in this role.

Ideally, you'll have a degree-level qualification in business or a related or combined disciplines together with relevant experience.

Apply:

If you are interested in the above opportunity please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your ability to meet the requirements of the role.

As part of the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.

Applications close 22nd May 2023

Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace:
Water Corporation is committed to creating a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community. How we will achieve this is outlined in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and People and Safety Strategy.

We acknowledge the different skills, experiences and perspectives that people from diverse backgrounds including, race, ethnicity, disability, age, gender identity and sexual orientation bring to the workplace, will only strengthen our workforce.

We are committed to ensuring that our workplace is inclusive, where all our people feel that they belong, are valued, respected and have equal access to opportunities and resources.

We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment to enable people with disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment wherever possible by offering reasonable adjustments including adjustments in our recruitment, selection and appointment processes.

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