Modern Workplace Team Leader

Western Power; Perth; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Additional leave options

Salary packaging

Wellness leave days

Employee recognition program

Job summary

Western Power is seeking an experienced Modern Workplace Team Leader to establish and lead a new permanent team within our Technology group in Perth. You will drive the modern workplace platform, govern usage, and partner with stakeholders to maximise value from technology investments.

You will manage internal teams and external service providers, ensure secure and reliable workplace technologies, and guide adoption, training and continuous improvement initiatives to support digital ways of

Qualifications

• Experience leading and maturing Modern Workplace platforms and services.
• Proven track record building high-performing teams and fostering collaboration.
• Strong governance, risk and compliance understanding for enterprise platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and ability to influence across technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the Modern Workplace team and develop capability to support workplace platforms.
• Drive evolution and maturity of the modern workplace environment for productivity and collaboration.
• Provide strategic leadership across workplace platforms, ensuring fit-for-purpose, compliant solutions.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technology outcomes and platform enhancements.
• Oversee performance of internal teams and external providers to meet service levels and value expectations.
• Set priorities, drive adoption and training, and manage incidents and risks.
• Lead platform health, lifecycle management and budget/planning activities.

Skills

Leadership

Modern Workplace

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

IT service management

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/IS or related field

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Modern Workplace Team Leader to join our Technology team in a newly created permanent role. This is an exciting opportunity to establish and lead a team responsible for our modern workplace platform, driving capability uplift and enhancing the maturity of our digital workplace environment.

As a trusted technology partner to the business, you'll champion business outcomes through effective platform governance, monitor platform utilisation, and ensure our workplace technologies remain secure, reliable, and fit for purpose. You'll also play a key role in managing relationships with external service providers and supporting internal customers to maximise value from our technology investments.

Your Role in Action

• Establish, lead and develop a high-performing Modern Workplace team, building the capability, skills and culture required to support and continuously improve workplace platforms and services.
• Drive the evolution and maturity of Western Power's modern workplace environment, delivering reliable, secure and user-centric solutions that enable productivity, collaboration and digital ways of working.
• Provide strategic leadership across modern workplace platforms, ensuring systems remain fit-for-purpose, aligned to business needs, and compliant with ICT standards, governance and best practices.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders to understand evolving requirements, influence outcomes, and translate business needs into effective technology solutions and platform enhancements.
• Oversee the performance and delivery of internal teams and external service providers, ensuring services meet agreed outcomes, service levels, quality standards and value expectations.
• Set priorities and balance competing demands, driving proactive initiatives such as adoption, training and optimisation activities, while ensuring timely resolution of incidents, risks and operational issues.
• Lead platform health, lifecycle and continuous improvement activities, including system maintenance, performance monitoring, issue analysis, roadmap planning and the identification of opportunities to increase value and capability.
• Contribute to technology leadership and planning, including business case development, budgeting, financial management, reporting, and the successful delivery of strategic workplace technology initiatives.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Demonstrated experience leading and enhancing Modern Workplace platforms and services, with a passion for driving adoption, continuous improvement and digital workplace maturity.
• A values-led people leader with a proven track record of building high-performing teams, developing capability and fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability.
• Significant experience leading enterprise technology platforms within large and complex environments.
• Strong understanding of platform governance, risk, compliance and operational service management.
• Strong understanding of modern IT service management practices and the governance required to maintain secure, reliable and fit-for-purpose workplace technologies.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and build trusted partnerships across technical and business audiences.
• A customer-focused and commercially minded leader who combines strategic thinking with practical delivery to create positive employee experiences and maximise business value from technology investments.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. Y ou will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
• Flexible work arrangements to support part-time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
• An innovative team culture that's enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.
• 22 weeks paid parental leaveand 5 days of First Nations cultural leaveto support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 18 September 2026

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities.As a WORK180 -endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.