Commercial Manager, Financial Services

Qantas Group; Victoria; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jetstar is recruiting a Commercial Manager, Financial Services to lead the portfolio across customer journeys and multiple markets. You will drive strategy, partnerships, and revenue growth for travel insurance, multi-currency pricing, and dynamic currency conversion within Commercial Product Partnerships.

You will report to the Manager, Commercial Product Partnerships and maintain P&L accountability, shaping strategy, managing key partnerships, and ensuring compliance in a regulated environment

Qualifications

• Significant experience in commercial management, product or partnership roles with P&L accountability.
• Experience negotiating with strategic suppliers or partners and contract management.
• Exposure to regulated industries such as financial services, insurance or payments.
• Proven track record delivering revenue growth through commercial strategies.
• Experience launching new products or initiatives from concept to launch.
• Strong commercial acumen with data-driven decision making.
• Excellent stakeholder management across complex organisations.
• Strong project delivery skills with multiple priorities.
• People leadership or coaching experience.
• Desirable finance/business degree or related qualification.

Responsibilities

• Shape Financial Services strategy across the Jetstar Group and prioritise initiatives.
• Own and deliver the Financial Services roadmap from business case to launch.
• Manage performance of the portfolio including revenue, budget and forecast.
• Identify opportunities to improve conversion, attach rates and profitability.
• Build business cases and lead commercial reviews for insurance, payments and platforms.
• Drive delivery across Digital, Technology, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Risk and Compliance.
• Ensure regulatory, compliance and governance requirements are met.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversee portfolio reporting, performance analysis and senior leadership recommendations.
• Lead, coach and develop a Commercial Specialist and grow team capability.

Skills

P&L accountability

Commercial strategy

Partnership management

Regulated industries

Financial services knowledge

Product launches

Stakeholder management

Project delivery

People leadership

Business analytics

Education

Tertiary qualifications in Business, Commerce, Finance or related discipline (desirable)

Job description

We're Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we've flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.

Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.

Our people are the real jet stars!

• Own Jetstar's Financial Services portfolio with end-to-end P&L accountability
• Deliver strategy, commercial partnerships and product development across insurance, multi-currency payments and emerging financial services products
• Drive revenue growth and customer experience improvements across multiple markets and Jetstar Group airlines

Love travel and passionate about all things aviation? You're in the right place. At Jetstar, you get to takeoff at work, and in life.

As a team, we're lucky we get to do both for a living, and we want you to be part of where we go next. Helping our teammates soar is what we're all about. And with the new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft, plus new routes being added, the sky's the limit.

Takeoff with your next opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Manager, Financial Services to join our Commercial Product Partnerships team.

Reporting to the Manager, Commercial Product Partnerships, this role will lead Jetstar's Financial Services portfolio across the customer journey and all Jetstar markets. The portfolio includes travel insurance, multi-currency pricing and dynamic currency conversion (MCP-DCC), as well as future financial services growth opportunities.

With P&L accountability for the portfolio within Commercial Product Partnerships, you'll be responsible for developing strategy, delivering commercial outcomes, managing key partnerships and ensuring compliance across a highly regulated environment. Working across Jetstar and the broader Qantas Group, you'll help shape the future of financial services products that enhance the customer experience while driving sustainable revenue growth.

The core responsibilities of this role are:

• Help shape the Financial Services strategy across the Jetstar Group, bringing commercial direction to product priorities, partner model and investment sequencing
• Own and deliver the Financial Services roadmap from business case development through to launch and post-implementation review
• Manage the performance of the portfolio, including revenue, budget and forecast delivery
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve conversion, attach rates, commission structures and overall portfolio profitability
• Build business cases and lead commercial reviews for insurance, payments and platform providers
• Drive delivery across Digital, Technology, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Risk and Compliance teams
• Manage regulatory, compliance and governance requirements across the portfolio
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Qantas Group partners and financial services providers
• Oversee portfolio reporting, performance analysis and commercial recommendations for senior leaders
• Lead, coach and develop a Commercial Specialist while building capability across the broader team

To be considered for this role, you will have:

• Significant experience in commercial management, product management or partnership management roles with demonstrated P&L accountability
• Experience managing strategic supplier or partner relationships, including commercial negotiations and contract management
• Exposure to regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, payments, banking or similar environments
• Proven capability developing and executing commercial strategies that deliver measurable revenue growth
• Experience launching new products, categories or commercial initiatives from concept through to implementation
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to analyse financial, customer and operational data to drive decision-making
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work across complex organisational structures
• Strong project delivery skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• People leadership or coaching experience
• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Commerce, Finance or a related discipline (desirable)

Experience within travel, aviation, e-commerce, payments, insurance or ancillary revenue businesses will be highly regarded.

Your Life At Jetstar Is Unlike Any Other

Takeoff professionally:

At Jetstar, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career while working on commercially significant products that impact millions of customers across multiple markets.

Get onboard with Qantas Group:

Being with Jetstar means you're connected to the broader Qantas Group, opening doors to exciting opportunities across different businesses, functions and locations.

Live the travel dream:

You and your nominated travel companions can takeoff more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount.

Make work feel like a holiday:

Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.

There's a place for everyone at Jetstar:

For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.

We're Jetstar. Let's takeoff together.

Applications close: Monday 9 November 2026 (subject to early review and closure).

Please note: Applications will only be considered for candidates who have the right to work in Australia/New Zealand without restriction or sponsorship.