Executive Manager, Strategic Partnering

**Executive Manager, Strategic Partnering - REQ 57440**
- **Permanent opportunity, minimum 3 days per week in the office**:

- **Lead large-scale initiatives, driving significant business transformation**:

- **Work closely with diverse teams and senior management, influencing outcomes
**How will I help?**

Reporting to our Head of Strategic Partnerships, Centre of Excellence (COE), your role will be critical in delivering the future state for Strategic Partnering, supporting the business to reach their goals through strong partnerships offshore. Your role will assess the entire Strategic Partnering value chain and uplift the core activities and reporting required to deliver leading practice and manage key risks involved in the Strategic Partnering approach.

Key responsibilities include:

- Support the Enterprise to build and maintain Strategic Partnerships that achieve agreed business, customer, and transformation outcomes at an aggregate level for business and knowledge processing.
- Support the Business in transitioning, optimising and transforming activities that are performed by Strategic Partners, ensuring that risks are managed and opportunities are maximized.
- Support the Business in transforming their processes by leveraging Strategic Partner capabilities namely, Lean Six Sigma, automation and Generative AI tooling.
- Set up leading practice reporting that is complementary and value add to existing governance reporting and drives leading practice insights and outcomes.
- Work closely with different teams across Westpac (e.g., Procurement, Service Delivery, Finance) to leverage scale and competitiveness, as well as senior stakeholder management.

**What’s in it for me?**

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 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 your career, 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**:

- Proven experience in a similar role within Financial Services or Consulting
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders to influence outcomes
- Experience in managing teams directly and across different functions
- Experience in leading large-scale Strategic Partnering initiatives, with expertise in managing vendors and partners (advantageous) in various jurisdictions.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering both IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) as part of a business transformation (advantageous)
- Strong business analytical skills to improve reporting and insights across the value chain.
- Experience in driving continuous improvement and transformation within banking and financial services.
- Experience and accreditation in Lean/Six Sigma and Agile methodologies is desirable.

If you are an experienced professional in financial services or consulting, with a robust background in offshoring and outsourcing, stakeholder management, business transformation, and analytical skills then we would love to hear from you.

**What’s it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.

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

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