Senior Manager Melbourne, Victoria

Bupa Australia; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Bupa Australia is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Execution & Roadmapping to translate strategy into actionable plans across the APAC region. You will steer the enterprise-wide roadmap, portfolio planning, delivery tracking, and governance, partnering with senior leaders across strategy, finance, technology and operations.

This highly visible role drives prioritisation, risk management and benefits realisation, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and capacity.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading and delivering enterprise-wide programs or strategic portfolios within a large organisation.
• Strong track record translating strategy into actionable roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management with senior leaders and diverse functions.
• Proven ability to facilitate executive discussions and align competing priorities.
• Robust governance, reporting and delivery oversight capabilities.
• Experience coordinating large-scale initiatives across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and maintenance of enterprise strategic roadmaps with milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate APAC strategic portfolio, ensuring visibility of initiatives, progress, risks and benefits.
• Support annual and quarterly portfolio planning, advising on investment and resource allocation.
• Partner with business leaders and delivery teams to keep programs aligned to priorities and capacity.
• Develop and maintain portfolio governance, planning and reporting frameworks.
• Coordinate senior leader reporting, portfolio reviews and governance forums with timely insights.

Skills

Strategic roadmapping

Stakeholder management

Portfolio governance

Program management

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

• Strategic Execution, APAC remit
• Direct report to Head of
• Partner with senior business leaders
• Hybrid, Melbourne/Sydney, Permanent

At Bupa, purpose meets possible. Join us and help shape a future where healthcare is more connected, more personal and more human. We’re a global healthcare leader trusted by millions and committed to helping people to live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. Healthcare is changing, and so are we. We’re investing in more clinics, better systems and smarter, more connected ways to help our customers.

As we continue to expand our services and invest in innovation, you’ll help create a healthcare system that meets people where they are, responds to what they need and leaves them better than before. Here, your work has purpose, your voice matters and your future is full of possibility. Just imagine the impact you could make.

The purpose of this role

is to ensure strategic priorities are translated into clear delivery plans, measurable outcomes and sustainable business value. As Senior Manager, Strategic Execution & Roadmapping, play a critical part in turning strategy into action by steering enterprise-wide roadmap, portfolio planning processes, delivery tracking and governance frameworks and performance reporting across the APAC business.

This is a highly visible senior role that partners with senior leaders across strategy, transformation, finance, technology and business operations. You'll provide oversight of strategic initiatives, identify risks and dependencies, support prioritisation decisions, and strengthen Bupa's organisational execution capability through disciplined governance, planning and stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the development, maintenance and continuous improvement of enterprise strategic roadmaps, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into actionable plans, clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate the day-to-day management of the APAC strategic portfolio, maintaining visibility of initiatives, delivery progress, dependencies, risks, benefits and key commitments.
• Support annual and quarterly portfolio planning and prioritisation activities, providing analysis and recommendations to optimise investment, resource allocation and delivery sequencing.
• Partner with business leaders, program and initiative sponsors and delivery teams to ensure strategic programs remain aligned to enterprise priorities, business plans and organisational capacity.
• Develop and maintain portfolio governance, planning and reporting frameworks that provide transparency, consistency and accountability across strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate senior leader reporting, portfolio reviews and governance forums, delivering timely insights on portfolio health, delivery confidence, strategic performance and benefits realisation.

Why you’ll love it?

We support our people to be the healthiest and happiest versions of themselves. From providing initiatives that develop careers to looking after our people’s health, wellbeing and futures. Through the Viva Healthier and Happier program, we’re providing health benefits for everyone who works at Bupa, no matter their role.

What you’ll need to make it possible:

• Significant experience leading and delivering enterprise-wide programs, transformation initiatives or strategic portfolios within a large and complex organisation.
• Demonstrated success in strategy execution, translating strategic priorities into actionable roadmaps, delivery plans and measurable outcomes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior leaders and drive alignment across diverse business functions.
• Proven experience facilitating executive discussions, navigating competing priorities and influencing strategic trade-off and investment decisions.
• Strong portfolio, governance and delivery management capability, including reporting, prioritisation, risk management and performance oversight.
• Experience coordinating large-scale initiatives across multiple business functions, managing interdependencies and driving outcomes without direct authority.
• Management consulting experience and/or exposure to enterprise strategy or CEO-facing environments will be highly regarded.

At Bupa your wellbeing, identity, and personal story are respected and valued. We are continuing to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Bupa is committed to providing equal opportunities and fostering a workplace and environment that is free of discrimination, bullying and harassment. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ applicants. We are dedicated to removing barriers to participation. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, or if you’d like to discuss how this role can be flexible for you, please let us know so we can support your participation on an equitable basis.