Gladstone Branch Manager

Jobgether; Gladstone Regional; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Above market salary

Relocation to Queensland

Flexible work arrangements

Career development

Parental leave

Employee perks

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner, seeks a Gladstone Branch Manager in Australia to lead a major transport and logistics branch.

You will own P&L, drive performance, safety culture, and people development while coordinating teams through transformation.

Relocation to Queensland is supported; this senior leadership role offers high visibility and a pathway to shaping local operations.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in transport, logistics, or related operational environments.
• Experience managing complex operations and leading teams through change.
• Strong commercial acumen with budgets, costs, profitability, and ideally full P&L responsibility.
• Track record of improving operational performance, productivity and customer outcomes.
• Strong people leadership skills; ability to develop leaders at multiple levels.
• Commitment to workplace health, safety, and proactive safety culture.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management to align diverse teams.
• Hands-on, results-oriented leadership with high accountability.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of branch operations, translating strategy into local priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Lead integration of teams and operations, ensuring alignment and consistent ways of working.
• Own the branch P&L, manage costs, budgets, and profitability while maintaining customer outcomes.
• Drive operational performance, service levels, productivity, and financial targets.
• Champion a safety-first culture with embedded standards and practices.
• Build and develop a high-performing team, nurturing leadership capability and retention.
• Coach and mentor future leaders through performance management and capability-building.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, and customer experience.
• Lead the branch through transformation, ensuring sustainable improvements aligned with objectives.
• Foster continuous improvement where issues are owned and resolved.

Skills

Leadership

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

People development

Safety culture

Accountability

Transformation

Communication

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Gladstone Branch Manager based in Australia.

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to take full ownership of a major transport and logistics branch in Gladstone, Queensland.
You will lead a significant operational integration, bringing teams together and establishing clear accountability and performance standards.
The role combines operational leadership, commercial ownership, people development, customer service, and safety.
With full P&L responsibility, you will influence profitability, productivity, service quality, and local business performance.
You will also shape a proactive, people-first culture focused on engagement, capability, and continuous improvement.
This is an ideal environment for a proven logistics leader who thrives in transformation rather than maintaining the status quo.
The position also offers the opportunity to relocate to Queensland and combine a senior leadership challenge with an attractive lifestyle.

• Take full ownership of branch operations, translating broader business strategy into clear local priorities, actions, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the integration of teams and operations, creating alignment, accountability, and consistent ways of working across the branch.
• Own the branch P&L, managing costs, productivity, budgets, and profitability while maintaining strong customer outcomes.
• Drive operational performance, including service levels, DIFOT performance, productivity, and achievement of financial targets.
• Champion a proactive, safety-first culture and ensure appropriate standards, behaviours, and practices are embedded across the operation.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team, strengthening leadership capability, engagement, accountability, and retention.
• Develop future leaders through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and capability-building initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, customer experience, and overall branch performance.
• Lead the branch through ongoing transformation, ensuring operational improvements are sustainable and aligned with business objectives.
• Establish a culture of continuous improvement where teams actively identify issues, solve problems, and take ownership of results.

Requirements

• Proven leadership experience within the transport, logistics, freight, or a closely related operational environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex operations and leading teams through significant organisational or operational change.
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience managing budgets, costs, profitability, and ideally full P&L responsibility.
• A track record of improving operational performance, productivity, service delivery, and customer outcomes.
• Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to build high-performing teams and develop leaders at different levels.
• Demonstrated commitment to workplace health and safety and the ability to establish a proactive safety culture.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to align diverse teams and influence business decisions.
• Strong accountability and decision-making skills, with a hands-on, results-oriented approach to leadership.
• Resilience, adaptability, and a genuine appetite for transformation and continuous improvement.
• A collaborative, inclusive leadership style that brings people together while maintaining high standards of performance.
• Candidates who are motivated by improving established operations and delivering measurable results will be particularly well suited to this opportunity.

Benefits

• Competitive salary positioned above industry standards.
• High-impact leadership role with significant ownership, visibility, and influence over branch performance.
• Opportunity to lead a major operational integration and shape a high-performing team and culture.
• Upskilling, training, mentoring, and career-development opportunities.
• Flexible working arrangements, including work-from-home options where appropriate.
• Employee perks, discounts, and practical benefits.
• Inclusive parental leave supporting all parents and carers.
• Peer-recognition awards celebrating outstanding contributions.
• Opportunity to relocate to sunny Queensland and combine a senior leadership career with an attractive lifestyle.
• Inclusive workplace committed to supporting people of diverse backgrounds, identities, abilities, and experiences.
• Opportunity to contribute to the transformation of the transport and logistics industry and broader environmental, social, and governance objectives.