Chief Executive Officer

Amrop Carmichael Fisher (VIC); Mildura; On-site; AUD 500,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Mildura Health, established in 1929, is one of Australia’s oldest open health funds. The new CEO will provide strategic, commercial, operational and cultural leadership to preserve what makes Mildura Health distinctive while building the capability for its next century.

Reporting to the Board, the CEO will steer membership growth, financial stewardship, hospital integration, data governance, and regional partnerships.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated substantial CEO, Executive Director or comparable leadership experience.
• Experience in private health insurance, healthcare or similarly regulated sectors.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including financial stewardship.
• Proven ability to lead a complex organisation and report to a Board.
• Excellent governance, risk and regulatory capabilities.
• Track record of strategic transformation and organisational change.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, commercial, operational and cultural leadership across Mildura Health.
• Preserve what makes Mildura Health distinctive while enabling next chapter.
• Lead sustainable membership growth, financial stewardship and capital management.
• Oversee governance, regulatory compliance and risk management.
• Drive workforce planning, leadership development and succession.
• Build trusted relationships with members, staff, clinicians and regulators.

Skills

CEO experience

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Change leadership

Community engagement

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Postgraduate qualification in management

Job description

Lead a member-owned regional health institution into its second century

About Mildura Health

Established in 1929, Mildura Health is one of Australia’s oldest open health funds and a proud, member-owned regional organisation. Today it combines private health insurance with ownership of Mildura Health Private Hospital and investment in healthcare infrastructure and services that enable more people to receive quality care closer to home. Mildura Health has more than 40,000 members, over 75% of whom reside in Sunraysia, with a broader presence including Swan Hill and Broken Hill.

The organisation approaches its centenary from a position of strength. Its next CEO will have the rare opportunity to steward an organisation with deep community legitimacy while shaping its future direction.

The opportunity

Reporting to the Board, the Chief Executive Officer will provide strategic, commercial, operational and cultural leadership across Mildura Health. The priority is to preserve what makes Mildura Health distinctive while building the capability required for its next chapter.

The CEO will lead an agenda encompassing:

• sustainable membership growth and member value;
• financial and capital stewardship;
• the continuing sustainability and strategic contribution of Mildura Health Private Hospital;
• technology modernisation and stronger data governance;
• innovation and appropriate adoption of emerging technology;
• workforce planning, leadership capability and succession;
• strong governance, risk and regulatory leadership;
• strategic partnerships and improved access to regional healthcare; and
• significant infrastructure and investment decisions as the organisation prepares for its second century.

The position also carries an important external leadership responsibility. Mildura Health is a highly visible regional institution and its CEO must develop trusted relationships with members, employees, clinicians, regulators, government, industry partners and the broader community.

You will be an accomplished senior executive with the judgement and maturity to inherit a successful organisation, understand what should be preserved and determine where change will create genuine long-term value.

The Board is particularly interested in executives who can demonstrate:

• substantial CEO, Executive Director or comparable executive leadership experience;
• private health insurance, healthcare or broader highly regulated-sector experience;
• strong commercial and financial acumen, including financial stewardship and capital management;
• successful leadership of a complex organisation;
• extensive experience reporting to and partnering with a Board;
• strong governance, risk and regulatory capability;
• a track record of strategic transformation and organisational change;
• outstanding stakeholder, government and community engagement skills;
• the ability to build high-performing, accountable and values-led cultures; and
• leadership of significant projects, investment or organisational initiatives.

A relevant tertiary qualification is required. Postgraduate qualifications in management, governance, strategy, finance or leadership would be advantageous.

You will be strategic, commercially astute, highly ethical, collaborative, approachable, decisive and resilient. You will lead through trust and credibility rather than hierarchy and understand that successful leadership in Mildura requires genuine engagement with the community.

Why Mildura Health?

Few CEO appointments combine this breadth of enterprise leadership with such tangible community impact.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to:

• lead one of Australia’s longest-established open health funds;
• steward a financially strong, member-owned organisation;
• influence both private health insurance and regional healthcare delivery;
• strengthen the relationship between the Fund and Mildura Health Private Hospital;
• shape major digital, data, infrastructure and partnership initiatives;
• improve access to healthcare for regional communities; and
• lead a trusted institution as it enters its second century.

The position is based in Mildura, Victoria, and genuine commitment to living in the region and becoming part of the community is important.

Mildura Health has appointed Amrop Carmichael Fisher to conduct the executive search for its next Chief Executive Officer.