Senior Manager, Commercial Structuring

Full-time, Ongoing

Melbourne, Victoria

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, infrastructure, and land development programs.

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.

If you are a commercially minded, self-driven professional who thrives in complex environments, we would love to hear from you.

Core Responsibilities:

• Structure and provide transaction management for commercial transactions, including land, housing, precincts and 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.
• 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. 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.

About You

You are a strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen 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 resilience in dynamic and high-stakes environments.

Skills and Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in finance, 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.

Application Process

• Application Deadline: Please submit your application by 8 June 2025.
  • Applications must be submitted via our careers page linked in this advertisement – we unable accept applications by email.
• Shortlisting will commence 9 June 2025.
• First-round interviews are planned for the week commencing 16 June 2025.
• The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check before an offer can be made.

Development Victoria supports flexible work and values diversity. If you have any preferences or require adjustments during the recruitment process or for the role, we encourage you to let us know.

If you identify as a person with disability, please tell us how we can support your application.

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

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.