Remediation Team Leader (Adelaide, Australia)

Singtel; Adelaide; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Flexible work arrangements

Parental Leave 16 weeks

Counselling services

Diversity networks

Job summary

Optus is seeking a Remediation Team Leader to spearhead a team addressing the most complex customer issues. You will own high‑risk matters, including executive complaints, privacy incidents and tribunal matters, guiding decision‑making and ensuring remediation outcomes align with governance standards.

This is a 12‑month fixed term opportunity. You’ll lead triage and resolution within SLAs, balance urgency with risk, and report to senior leaders on complex matters while maintaining regulatory

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading teams in a customer remediation environment with outcomes ownership.
• Strong experience managing high-risk remediation cases, including executive complaints and regulatory exposure.
• Ability to lead decision-making and governance across advocacy, remediation and dispute resolution.
• Experience overseeing vulnerable customer cases ensuring appropriate remediation outcomes.
• Exceptional judgement and critical thinking for complex, sensitive issues with limited precedent.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Team leadership

Remediation expertise

Risk assessment

Stakeholder management

Executive complaints handling

Regulatory compliance

Decision making

Communication

Ethical judgement

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 the Remediation Team Leader at 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.

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.
• 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.

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 [e-mail] or call 1800 309 170.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity