Job Description

You crave a career that pushes you, where you'll meet challenges head on and you're guaranteed to grow.

This is your opportunity to broaden your experience and perspectives, step out of the confines of a standard project role and expand your scope to work with an interconnected ecosystem of industry professionals.

In this role, you'll:

Join the Finance, Technology and Commercial (FTC), Divisional Management Office as Business Manager supporting the Procurement branch. As Business Manager, you'll be a trusted strategic partner to the Chief Procurement Officer, driving operational excellence, enabling informed decision-making, and ensuring the seamless execution of priorities to maximise effectiveness, efficiency, and business impact.

You will :

• Provide support and strong leadership to a team of business services professionals, ensuring the smooth and efficient day-to-day business operations and support services with seamless delivery
• Balance strategic thinking with operational delivery to ensure outcomes are achieved efficiently and are embedded for lasting impact.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, bringing a culture first mindset and navigating diverse perspectives to achieve positive outcomes in a dynamic environment, working in a matrix environment with embedded partners.
• Monitor enterprise strategy, risks, and issues, assessing their impact on divisional priorities and operations.
• Be a highly structured and proactive person who thrives in a fast-paced environment. Juggle completing priorities, pivot to new priorities with short notice and deliver high quality, well thought through outputs to a range of stakeholders including frontline teams and executive leaders.
• Collaborative by nature, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and driven to deliver impactful results.
• Translate complex information into clear insights and recommendations, develop impactful presentations, and can lead the successful delivery of initiatives.
• Drive process improvements and implement best practices to enhance operational efficiency, leveraging strong project management capabilities.

Please note that this is a fixed-term opportunity until November 2027.

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.

About you

• You are an experienced solutions-focused and agile person with a proven track record providing executive support in a large and complex matrixed operational environment.
• You will be accustomed to navigating the complexity that comes with change, and are ready to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Have highly advanced stakeholder management skills and success in brokering effective, productive relationships across a large and diverse workforce.
• Have a collegiate and collaborative leadership style and be highly adept at interfacing across multiple business functions, supporting the setting of priorities and bringing others along on the journey.
• Experience in Finance, procurement or commercial while not essential would be highly regarded

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy

Apply today

Applications close 11:59 PM Wednesday 21 October, 2026.

For more information about this role, please contact SHEFALI.UPPAL@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

Learn more about how to apply via Our recruitment process | Transport for NSW

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