Head of Culture

**How will I help?**

This role is responsible for leading and executing the Group Culture strategy for Westpac Group consistent with HR strategy, Group strategy, Group policies and frameworks, and the Group Risk Appetite.

As the Head of Culture, you will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of the Group Culture Strategy, spanning interventions and transformation to further develop our culture and risk culture.

Critical to the role is the development and adoption of Westpac Group’s culture plan and roadmap, including communicating culture standards throughout the Group, in conjunction with the GM Culture, Capability & Talent and the Group Executive HR. You'll provide SME expertise on culture and change to drive business performance to Westpac executives. This includes identifying and managing relevant vendors. As the Head of Culture, you will partner with Business Leaders, including the CEO, Group Executives & GMs, as well as their GMs of HR, to build and shape cultural transformation aligned to the specific business needs. You will ensure the culture-related HR initiatives align to our Purpose, Values and Behaviours and Foundations of Strong Risk Culture, including initiatives as defined by the Westpac Groups Culture Roadmap and CORE recommendations. Further, you will define the Organisational Leadership drivers, behaviours, expectations and practices in partnership with Executive Talent and Capability.

Passionate about Culture, you will provide thought leadership on organisational culture to ensure Westpac’s strategy is refreshed and remaining contemporary. Managing a team, you will lead and coach the Culture team and provide leadership informally across the HR function.

**What’s in it for me?**

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**

You will have substantial culture transformation experience at a group-wide level in your background and be familiar with working at a large organisation knowing how to navigate complex environments. You will hold demonstrable experience in the development and delivery of a Group culture plan and roadmap, as well as building and delivering interventions to support leader capability and the organisational shift to a desired Culture, especially in financial services and regulated entities. Consulting experience or familiarisation with working at large organisations and navigating complex regulated environments would be ideal. You’re passionate about thought leadership in Organisational Development, Change and Culture, and are comfortable producing and presenting recommendations to C-Suite, Boards and Executives to establish a culture that positively supports our Group strategic and operational priorities. With a track record of building trusted relationships, you’re a high energy, ambitious individual with people leadership experience who thrives in providing commercially driven innovative thinking with a passion for driving cultural change.

**What is it like to work there?**

We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

**How do I apply?**

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?