Regional Operations Manager | Industrial Asx100

Arete Executive; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-term incentive

Job summary

Arete Executive is seeking an accomplished operational leader to take full P&L ownership for Queensland's metropolitan region, including a $100M+ multisite portfolio and a team of 120+. This role sits at executive visibility, shaping the commercial agenda across national accounts and renewals.

In this critical turnaround, you will restore underperforming sites, protect margins, and influence cross-functional teams to deliver durable improvements.

Qualifications

• Proven full P&L ownership at a regional, state or multisite level, with measurable improvement you can evidence.
• Demonstrated ability to turn around an underperforming operation, or drive significant improvements in previous roles.
• Ability to lift the capability of a site leadership team. You can point to supervisors and managers you developed into their next role, and to the succession depth you left behind.
• Proven ability to influence and drive results through teams / stakeholders that don’t report to you.
• A background in an industrial, process-driven, metrics-led business.

Responsibilities

• Return the underperforming site to budget, addressing capability, culture and operating discipline rather than treating the symptoms
• Protect and grow margin across the portfolio through disciplined decisions on labour, fleet, cost base and service mix
• Partner with and influence sales and commercial teams on tender modelling, pricing and service design for major upcoming renewals
• Lift service performance against national and key account KPIs to a consistent standard, with causes understood and controls owned at site level
• Build genuine leadership depth beneath you, with credible succession at site leader and supervisor level

Skills

P&L ownership

Turnaround experience

Site leadership

Influence cross-functional

Industrial/metrics-driven

Job description

• Two strong sites to scale, one clear turnaround to own
• $100M+ multisite portfolio, leading a team of 120+
• Highly commercial role with genuine executive visibility

About the Role

This exciting role available due to promotion holds full accountability for the state’s metropolitan region: a $100M+ multisite portfolio with a team of 120+, and a small number of site leaders reporting directly. This is the region that matters most in the state. It carries the largest concentration of national account exposure in Queensland, with the majority of work performed under national and key account contracts. Several significant renewals fall due over the next 12 months, giving the incoming leader real influence over the commercial shape of the business for years ahead. Most of the portfolio is performing strongly and has a solid track record of delivering budget. One part of it has underperformed for close to two years and represents a clear, well-defined turnaround. The opportunity is a genuinely balanced one: scale and strengthen what is working, own and fix what isn’t, and be visible to executive leadership for both.

About the Company

Our client is a leading ASX100 industrial B2B business with a substantial national footprint and strong brand. It offers the scale, systems and career pathways of a major listed company alongside a genuine commitment to safety, sustainability and inclusion.

Key Responsibilities

In the first 12 months, you will:

• Return the underperforming site to budget, addressing capability, culture and operating discipline rather than treating the symptoms
• Protect and grow margin across the portfolio through disciplined decisions on labour, fleet, cost base and service mix
• Partner with and influence sales and commercial teams on tender modelling, pricing and service design for major upcoming renewals
• Lift service performance against national and key account KPIs to a consistent standard, with causes understood and controls owned at site level
• Build genuine leadership depth beneath you, with credible succession at site leader and supervisor level

About You

You are a commercially sharp operational leader who is genuinely comfortable in the detail, both in the spreadsheets, in the models, and in the P&L. You know how revenue, cost, margin, capital and service mix fit together, and you can tell the difference between work worth winning and work that will cost you for five years.

Essential:

• Proven full P&L ownership at a regional, state or multisite level, with measurable improvement you can evidence
• Demonstrated ability to turn around an underperforming operation, or drive significant improvements in previous roles
• Ability to lift the capability of a site leadership team. You can point to supervisors and managers you developed into their next role, and to the succession depth you left behind
• Proven ability to influence and drive results through teams / stakeholders that don’t report to you
• A background in an industrial, process-driven, metrics-led business

Highly regarded:

• Experience leading across both sales and operations
• Transport or logistics exposure, including heavy vehicle and chain of responsibility compliance and fleet return metrics

What’s on Offer

This is the largest and most complex region in the state, with the scope and autonomy to match. You will have direct line of sight to executive leadership, a genuine pathway beyond the role, and the backing of an ASX100 business with national scale, strong systems and extensive career pathways. The package is competitive at this level and includes a short-term incentive, and base location is flexible across the region to align with where you live. Just as importantly, you will inherit a business with real momentum in most of the portfolio and a clearly defined problem in the rest. The mandate is understood, the support is there, and the results will be visible.

Arete champions diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and particularly encourage women to apply.