Executive Manager, Leadership & Culture

Westpac Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Mortgage rates discount

Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave

Tailored learning and development

Volunteering opportunities

Job summary

Westpac Group is seeking an Executive Manager, Leadership & Culture to lead culture and organisational development across a large, complex banking group. Hybrid Sydney-based role partnering with senior leaders to translate culture challenges into practical solutions that drive lasting behavioural change.

You will diagnose issues, shape culture plans, and deliver leadership initiatives that shift mindsets and improve performance at scale.

Qualifications

• Significant experience driving culture change at scale in large organisations.
• Strong diagnostic capability to uncover underlying issues and shape practical solutions.
• Credibility with senior leaders and ability to influence and challenge constructively.
• Experience designing culture, leadership and behavioural interventions from concept to implementation.
• Strong facilitation skills for purposeful conversations with senior stakeholder groups.
• Evidence-led approach using data, insights and measurement to guide decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to shape culture plans and strengthen leadership effectiveness.
• Turn complex challenges into practical, targeted interventions.
• Design and deliver culture, leadership and behavioural initiatives that shift mindsets.
• Facilitate leadership team conversations and workshops to build alignment and action.
• Use insights and measures to diagnose issues, measure impact and improve outcomes.
• Collaborate across the People Team and business to embed change and deliver sustainable outcomes.
• Constructively challenge thinking and influence change across a complex organisation.

Skills

Culture change

Leadership development

Stakeholder influence

Facilitation

Data-driven

Ambiguity navigation

Job description

Create your best future, join Westpac as an Executive Manager, Leadership & Culture

• Full time, permanent opportunity, Kent Street Sydney (hybrid working arrangements).
• Influence the culture and leadership agenda across a large, complex organisation.
• Partner with senior leaders to turn complex culture challenges into practical solutions that create lasting behavioural change.

At Westpac, culture is one of our most important strategic assets. It shapes how we are customer obsessed, always curious and win together. We know leaders are culture multipliers, influencing the behaviours and experiences that shape our culture everyday. That’s why we are investing in the team driving our leadership and culture ambition.

We're looking for an experienced culture and organisational development specialist to join our Leadership & Culture team. You'll work with leaders and teams across the Group, combining deep culture expertise, strong consulting skills and a practical approach to change at scale.

How you’ll make an impact

As a trusted adviser, you'll diagnose what is driving business and culture challenges, identify where action will have the greatest impact, and take solutions from initial problem definition through to delivery and evaluation.

• Partner with senior leaders and leadership teams to shape culture plans and strengthen leadership effectiveness, team performance and organisational outcomes.
• Turn complex or ambiguous challenges into practical, targeted interventions.
• Design and deliver culture, leadership and behavioural initiatives that shift mindsets and ways of working.
• Facilitate leadership team conversations and workshops that build alignment, accountability and action.
• Use employee insights, culture measures, research and experimentation to diagnose issues, measure impact and improve outcomes.
• Connect culture initiatives across organisational levers, including performance, capability, recognition and communication.
• Collaborate across the People Team and the business to embed change and deliver sustainable outcomes.
• Constructively challenge thinking, bring new ideas and influence change across a complex organisation.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team that is passionate about creating meaningful change and helping our people, teams and leaders perform at their best.

What you’ll bring

You're an experienced culture, leadership and organisational development practitioner with a strong understanding of what drives behaviour and performance in complex organisations. You can move comfortably between strategic thinking and practical delivery, and you bring sound judgement, curiosity and a clear focus on outcomes.

• Significant experience driving culture change at scale, ideally within or consulting to a large, complex organisations.
• Strong diagnostic capability, with the ability to uncover underlying issues and shape practical solutions.
• Credibility and confidence with senior leaders, including the ability to influence and constructively challenge.
• Experience designing and delivering culture, leadership and behavioural interventions from concept to implementation.
• Strong facilitation skills and the ability to lead purposeful conversations with senior stakeholder groups.
• An evidence-led approach, using data, insights and measurement to guide decisions and assess impact.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and organisational complexity while maintaining momentum.

Experience in financial services, consulting, or significant culture transformation would be highly regarded.

If you're passionate about culture, leadership and creating lasting behavioural change, we'd love to hear from you.

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives

Create your future today.

We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find more information and contact details on our FAQs and how to contact us page, under the ‘Diversity, sustainability and flexibility’ section.