Total 1,304 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Option to work from Ringwood (Melb), Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Tasmania

We seek to appoint an enterprising executive with a finance or commercial business management background and a growth mindset to partner with the CEO, CFO, COO and our Service Line Managing Directors to identify opportunity for performance improvements and enhance productivity to ensure revenue and EBITDA growth across Australia. This position will lead the People & Performance function as a key member of the Australian Executive Team, enhancing our culture and contributing to future success of Colliers.

What will this role offer the right person ?

• Accountability to execute key elements of the Australian business plan, which underpins our Global Enterprise ’25 plan.
• Work nationally with senior leadership to deliver their annual business plans, helping them to grow profit and enhance culture.
• Influence operating expenditure as well as investment in people and platforms.
• Be part of M&A opportunities, in the due diligence and integration phases.
• Autonomy to identify and propose efficiency measures across the whole of business.
• Develop and lead both the People, and the Performance strategies, creating business cases for human capital investments to maximise ROI.
• Innovate with technology to increase productivity.

This role will lead a very well-established People & Performance service line that has teams specialising in HR, and Careers. The HR team delivers the annual calendar of events that includes but is not limited to on-boarding, employee benefits, health & wellbeing, workplace health and safety management, learning and development, the promotions process and our people engagement survey, as well as HR data and system administration, HR policies and processes, compliance, and process improvement. The Careers team is responsible for organic growth through recruitment, retention and internal mobility.

Purpose of your role

As part of the Technology management team, this role will provide overall leadership and direction for OFX’s Capability Platforms, including the software engineering discipline to ensure core business goals are supported and successfully executed on.

Your primary responsibility will be building a practice of highly skilled and motivated software engineers and engineering managers, that are assigned to work in highly autonomous, cross-functional and empowered delivery teams. You will contribute to the OFX business objectives by coaching your direct reports to work as high performing teams, developing the culture and practices that ensure that every individual understands and is contributing to the overall Technology strategy.

You will collaborate with the Technology management team, including Engineering Directors, Head of Portfolio & Release Planning, Information Systems, and Security, to deliver impactful outcomes for OFX. You will also work with the Product division, and business stakeholders to ensure your portfolio delivers business value and aligns with the Technology strategy, security and compliance requirements, and budget.

Working with the Technology Management team, you will agree on cross-practice strategies for talent & resource management, engagement & delivery, vendor and technology standards, enterprise architecture, risk management and engineering tooling and culture. Outside of these common standards, the Engineer Director is responsible for the frameworks, methodologies, resource development, technology solutions and the operating model within the Product Platforms practice.

In addition to your background in software engineering and people management, you need soft skills in relationship building, team leadership, motivation, communication, and stakeholder management. You will ensure teams understand the vision, establish processes, facilitate collaboration, and make critical (sometimes tough) decisions to achieve delivery outcomes in an inclusive and overall enjoyable environment. 

What you do

• Set a Technical vision and define the strategy for the Capability Platforms domain including Payments, Treasury, FX, Pricing, Data, Cloud and Engineering platforms
• Ensure engineering and other practices and processes are defined, communicated, evolved and adhered to within your practice
• Lead architectural direction and decision making within your practice
• Effectively manage Tech Debt and software costs within your practice
• Management of Technology vendors, including financial budget, within your practice
• Set effective metrics and delivery methodologies in Delivery teams to ensure success
• Delegation and training of individuals within your team to ensure empowerment, autonomy and professional development while ensuring overall delivery objectives are achieved
• Management and mitigation of technology risks using proper governance
• Manage technology costs effectively including resourcing, vendors and infrastructure (where possible)
• Work with Product leads to identify metrics for products are identified a part of the delivery process and measured post release
• Ensure all product platforms are secure, reliable and built to scale
• Professional development of direct reports, identifying and nurturing high performing resources while effectively managing underperforming resources
• Ensure all direct reports have clear and measurable objectives which adhere to the divisions approach and relate to team, product and organisational metrics
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, both Technology and other business divisions including effective ongoing communication approaches
• Work with the CTO, People and Culture and your peers in Product and Technology to evangelise OFX and Technology across the industry for the development of future OFX talent acquisition