Media Change Manager

This role leads strategically critical operating model and workforce change management workstreams within a fast-paced media environment. It ensures initiatives are rooted in a consumer-first mindset and aligned to a high-performance culture.

The Manager, Organisational Design & Workforce Change works at the intersection of creativity and operational excellence, enabling people-centric, transformational change across broadcast, digital, and content production functions.

Through close collaboration with People & Culture teams, a Transformation Management Office, and business leaders, this role will co-design consistent and strategic delivery practices to evolve the organisation's culture, structure, and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the execution of leader-led operating model change programs that align with high-performance and consumer-first principles.
• Partner with Workstream Leads (TMO) and Senior leaders across media, production, and commercial teams to facilitate transformational workforce change.
• Create effective and collaborative relationships with People Business Partners to ensure org designs and change management plans are grounded in practicality, meeting the business where it's at.
• Lead a small team of Org Design & Workforce Change Specialists to deliver impactful, pragmatic, and consistent change outcomes.
• Lead the co-design and implementation of a People Transformation Playbooks tailored to the dynamic and practical needs of the media industry.
• Monitor progress across people workstreams, escalate critical dependencies (e.g., org structure sign-off), and ensure timely delivery of milestones.
• Facilitate leadership engagement and communications to build momentum and adoption of key initiatives.

Success Measures:

• Effective delivery of people transformation milestones within agreed timelines.
• Positive business and employee feedback around design workshops, change experience and engagement.
• Playbooks embedded across media business units and adopted as part of BAU practice.
• Improved culture and high-performance indicators as measured through internal feedback tools.
• Strong team culture, centred around psychological safety and high performance.

Required Skills And Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in organisation design, change management, or HR leadership roles — while not essential, let us know about your experience within media, entertainment, or creative industries.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with a track record of influencing senior leaders in a creative or fast-moving environment.
• Experience working in matrix environments and coordinating across multiple business units and production teams.
• Hands-on experience in building and applying transformation toolkits and playbooks, and demonstrable flexibilty in applying the right framework with resistant stakeholders.
• Ability to balance long-term vision with pragmatic, outcomes-focused delivery.

Benefits:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave with no distinction between primary and secondary carers.
• Access to 'Employee Exclusives' program - a way of getting closer to our incredible brands, offering unique experiences, behind-the-scenes access, and awesome perks.
• Digital newspaper subscription to our mastheads.
• Annual gift voucher for Stan subscription.

Additional Information:

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: We're committed to a safe, respectful and inclusive workplace. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best.

Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.