Head of Accelerated Growth

**The opportunity**

At Bupa, our purpose is helping our customers live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

As the Head of Accelerated Growth - you will be accountable for the design of disruptive propositions to drive accelerated growth, maximining reach in market and targeting customers that do not resonate with Bupa’s existing propositions. This will involve the assessment and execution of complex, high impact experiments that require elevated degrees of structured thinking, strategic rigour and quantitative validation.

Bringing thought leadership and influence across the Enterprise to drive innovation and bring new propositions to market, championing a test and learn approach and to scale propositions that resonate in market.

**_ This is a permanent full-time position, based in Melbourne or Sydney office. Bupa offers hybrid working arrangements and you can work from the office or from home)
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**How will I help?**
- Build direct team to scale in line with success of propositions in market to capitalise on the opportunity and ensure active management.
- Translate commercial performance aspirations into alternative HI propositions including identifying channel/distribution strategy.
- Identify, evaluate, validate and pilot alternative models for growth, using a test and learn and customer first approach.
- Ensure customer strategies and propositions evolve to meet the changing market, including competitor, regulatory and market developments, and customer demands to remain fit for purpose for Health Insurance
- Lead expertise and insights relating to market developments and competitor activity across an array of dimensions that may impact Bupa’s sustainable competitive advantage.
- Drive a culture of high performance to ensure we are focused on the right metrics to deliver our aspiration for future growth both within PHI and other categories

**Why work at Bupa?**

We keep our people smiling by helping them improve their lives in and outside of the office.

We’re a welcoming lot, no matter who you are or where you’ve come from. We welcome all talents and backgrounds and embrace our differences, so you can bring your true self to work.

We support our people to be the best version of themselves, physically and mentally. With a healthy work/life balance, leadership support, reduced private health cover, study leave, volunteering options and a commitment to promoting from within.

Our employees can access wide range of benefits: from our own products (incl. health insurance discounts) to many other products and services via our partnerships program (like Apple, Samsung, JB Hi-Fi, plus gym and spa discounts to name a few). We reward our people and celebrate their success, provide initiatives that develop careers and look after our people’s health, wellbeing and futures.

**What do I need?**
- Tertiary qualifications in business, marketing or related disciplines are preferred
- Experience at a senior leadership level with a track-record of delivering effective solutions in a large and complex organisation
- P&L management including at a start
- up or in an emerging business
- Direct experience in leading the development and implementation of strategies to deliver commercial outcomes
- Ability to solve complex problems and develop solutions in consultation with others, including expert professionals
- Expertise in Australian healthcare legislative and regulatory environment and the impact of these upon product policy and strategy.

**About Bupa Asia Pacific
Bupa is an international healthcare group which has been committed to a purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world for more than 70 years.

Bupa Asia Pacific operates in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, supporting about 6.5 million customers through a broad range of health and care services including health insurance, aged care, dental, medical, optical and hearing services. Employing more than 20,000 people in the region, we believe that we can make a real difference to the lives of customers through our values, purpose and the way that we deliver personalised care.

Since 2002, we have reinvested approximately $6 billion in the region, with the Bupa Foundation investing more than $34 million to support 130+ health and care projects.