El 1 - Business Manager

$120,303 - $135,701 + up to 15.4% Superannuation
- Richmond - NSW

**The Role**

The Business Manager holds a pivotal, multi-faceted role, overseeing strategic planning, resource allocation, and cultural development within a large and complex Program Office. This position is accountable for integrated strategic personnel planning, ensuring the organisation has the right structure and a skilled, knowledgeable team to achieve its goals. A significant aspect of this role involves sponsoring and managing the operationalisation of the Defence Culture Blueprint. This includes developing and implementing the ALSPO Cultural Intent and leading activities aligned with the blueprint's seven strategic pillars and compliance to Defence Values and Behaviours.

Key Responsibilities include:

- Leadership and co-ordination to manage and oversee effective reporting and outputs for workforce, administration and business management services including budget and personnel contract management.
- Implementing strategies aligned to psychosocial health and well-being for Australian Public Service (APS) staff, and collaborates with the Commanding Officer (CO) for Australian Defence Force (ADF) members.
- Developing innovative solutions to resourcing constraints inclusive of change management activities.
- Building and maintaining a library of workforce and resource business intelligence artefacts to help senior management make informed decisions.
- Acting as liaison with Branch and other functional Groups across Defence to understand and implement broader strategic intent and ensure compliance and optimal performance across ALSPO.

**About our Team**
ALSPO delivers air mobility capabilities to support combat, humanitarian, diplomatic and peace-keeping operations. Our platforms and projects provide Air Mobility capability to Air Force through the delivery of sustainment services for the C-130J Hercules and C-27J Spartan aircraft.

Founded on a strong Air Force legacy ALSPO is resourced by ADF, APS and contracted support. The Defence Values underpin our behaviours and the organisation prides itself on an inclusive service delivery model. The team is resilient, adaptive and culturally capable and every individual acts with purpose for Defence and the nation. Our service values are the foundation to our identity.

Our team operates from RAAF Richmond; supportive of flexible work arrangements the position has the responsibility of being customer and personnel centric and will be required to work predominantly in location in Western Sydney.

Our people are capable, committed and diverse. We support an inclusive culture that emphasises respect and collaboration. Being an APS member, you are entitled to leading health and safety initiatives and wellbeing opportunities. Onsite you can make use of base facilities including the gym, tennis and basketball courts, pool and cinema and child care centre.

To be successful in the role, you will:

- Be qualified, experienced and highly motivated with proven and demonstrated abilities to operate effectively within a complex organisation that is performance driven and capability focused.
- Display exceptional technical mastery in data collection, research and analysis, consolidation and reporting to create innovative and efficient business administration operations.
- Demonstrate high levels of behavioural mastery that enable the building of effective partnerships with key stakeholders and communicate with influence to drive and deliver effective outcomes..
- Have developed strategic awareness and planning ability, where you can demonstrate understanding, translate and align the strategic intent and drivers of a complex organisation to the more tactical elements of everyday business.
- Have demonstrated leadership abilities where workforce outcomes led by you, were shaped, managed and delivered for complex activities.
- Have developed excellent written communication skills including the ability to be succinct and assured in messaging.