Senior Manager, Commercial Structuring

About Us

At Development Victoria, we're passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government's development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

Your New Role

In this newly created senior role, you will support the structuring, transaction management and negotiation of commercial transactions that support Development Victoria's housing and land development programs and support precinct and social infrastructure transactions.

You will help shape commercially optimised project structures by providing strategic insight, managing risk, and coordinating expert advice, while also helping to build internal capability and working with key stakeholders to deliver high-impact, public value projects.  You will also lead on bringing together project valuations, feasibilities and site due diligence in order to provide comprehensive project briefs and to manage commercial uncertainties to optimise land value offerings via land divestment transactions.

If you are a commercially minded, have the skills to apply a property development lens and are a self-driven professional who thrives in complex environments, we would love to hear from you.

Core Accountabilities:

• Structure and provide transaction management and early project management for land divestments and commercial transactions supporting the delivery of housing, and commercial and community precincts and social infrastructure projects.
• Design and implement efficient government Expression of Interest and Request for Proposals tender processes and evaluation tools, providing strategic commercial advice and ensuring alignment with probity, governance, and High Value High Risk (HVHR) policy requirements where applicable.
• Manage consultants and transaction programs to time and budget.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across government, legal, and private sectors and utilise these networks to source information to inform transaction structures and template and process driven documentation.
• Prepare ministerial briefs, cabinet submissions, and reports for executive and board consideration.
• Mentor others and contribute to internal capability uplift in commercial strategy and structured transaction design and applying a commercially strategic lens to new land acquisitions.

About You

You are a strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen, property development expertise and a deep understanding of government procurement and policy frameworks. You're confident navigating complex stakeholder environments and translating commercial and legal advice into actionable project strategies.

You bring a collaborative mindset, a practical approach to problem-solving and the ability to manage an issue or an agreed approach to an efficient outcome. You will be confident in your resilience and have the ability to adapt in a dynamic and high-stakes environments.

Skills and Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in finance, real estate or property development, commerce, law, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in transaction management and structuring transactions in property, infrastructure, or government-regulated environments.
• Demonstrated experience with EOI/RFP development and managing structured tender processes under government probity and policy requirements (e.g., HVHR).
• Strong financial and risk literacy, including the ability to assess financial models, pricing assumptions, and project sensitivities.
• Proven ability to manage advisors and consultants across legal, financial, and tax disciplines.
• Excellent written communication skills, including preparing business cases, ministerial briefs, and board-level documentation.
• A collaborative style and the ability to influence and build credibility with a wide range of stakeholders.

Employee Benefits

• We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.
• Professional development opportunities available including;
• Study support
• Mentoring programs
• Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
• Novated leasing
• Purchase leave
• Paid parental leave
• Technology salary sacrifice
• Employee referral bonuses
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
• Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance
• Modern onsite facilities

Application Process

• We value our people. As part of our commitment to supporting our team, priority consideration will be given to eligible Development Victoria employees who are taking part in the redeployment process.
• Please apply via our careers page linked to this advertisement, applications will not be accepted via email.
• Please note: The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check prior to an offer of employment being made.
• At Development Victoria, we work flexibly and value diversity, and we invite you to talk to us about any preferences or adjustments you may value or require to either our recruitment process or the role itself. If you identify as a person with disability, please let us know how we can provide additional support to your application.

Application Deadline: Please submit your application by 16/11/2025. Applications received after this date may not be considered.

If you require further information about this role, please contact Recruitment Enquiries 

We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.