Remediation Team Leader

Optus; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly $80 credit

25% off Optus products

Flexible working arrangements (3 days‑

Job summary

Optus is seeking a Remediation Team Leader to head a specialist group responsible for resolving the most complex, high-risk customer issues. The role demands strong remediation expertise, governance capability, and leadership for decisions affecting customer outcomes and regulatory exposure.

The position is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity with flexible office/remote work arrangements, and a focus on executive complaints, privacy incidents, and high-stakes disputes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading teams in a remediation environment with outcomes responsibility.
• Strong track record managing high-risk, high-impact remediation cases with regulatory implications.
• Ability to govern decisions across remediation, dispute resolution, and customer advocacy in a regulated setting.
• Experience overseeing vulnerable customer cases and ensuring appropriate remediation outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of high-risk, high-impact customer issues, including executive complaints and privacy incidents.
• Lead a team of remediation specialists, ensuring triage, prioritisation and timely resolutions within SLAs.
• Manage executive-level complaints, balancing urgency, customer harm risk and regulatory exposure.
• Provide clear, high-quality recommendations and remediation outcomes to senior leaders on complex matters.
• Ensure adherence to internal standards and regulatory requirements in non-standard scenarios.

Skills

Team leadership

Remediation expertise

Stakeholder management

Regulatory awareness

Job description

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband, and digital solutions.

As theRemediation Team Leaderat Optus, you'll play a critical leadership role within our customer division. In this role, you will lead a team responsible for resolving the most complex, high-risk, and high-impact customer issues. You will bring strong remediation expertise and leadership capability to guide decision-making in situations requiring advanced risk assessment, ethical judgement, and stakeholder alignment - directly influencing customer outcomes and protecting Optus’ reputation.

The role manages a team with independent review of escalated and complex cases, including matters referred by the ExCo, senior leaders, the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) and other external bodies.

Please note this is a 12-month fixed term opportunity.

What You’ll Do | Your day to day will consist of

• Taking full ownership of high-risk, high-impact customer issues, including executive complaints, tribunal matters, and privacy incidents.
• Leading a team of remediation specialists, ensuring effective triage, prioritisation, and resolution of complex cases within defined SLAs.
• Managing executive-level complaints, balancing urgency, customer harm risk, and regulatory exposure.
• Providing clear, high-quality recommendations and remediation outcomes to senior leaders on complex, high-risk matters.
• Ensuring adherence to internal standards and regulatory requirements, particularly in non-standard or exception-based scenarios.

What You Bring | What makes you perfect for the role?

• Proven experience (essential) leading teams in a customer remediation environment, with clear accountability for outcomes.
• Strong experience managing high-risk, high-impact remediation cases, including executive complaints, tribunal matters, and issues with regulatory and reputational implications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead decision-making and provide governance across customer advocacy, remediation, and dispute resolution in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience overseeing vulnerable customer cases, ensuring appropriate remediation outcomes.
• Exceptional judgement and critical thinking when managing complex, sensitive issues where there is little or no precedent.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and represent the function effectively.
• Ability to interpret regulatory frameworks and align to operational practices.

The good stuff…. | What’s in it for you?

• Competitive remuneration and employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners.
• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home.
• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenience store, chill out zones, GP, post office, gym and on-site childcare centre.
• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected' days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you.
• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.
• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).
• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 - in-person, by phone, SMS, or video.
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon.

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying 'yes' to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email***************@optus.com.auor call 1800 309 ***.