Job Description

Create your best future and join Westpac as a People Strategy Senior Lead

What’s the role?

You’ll play a key role in shaping how Westpac thinks about its people, now and into the future. Working closely with the Chief People Officer and People Leadership Team, you’ll design and maintain the Westpac People Strategy, ensuring alignment with Enterprise priorities.

This role turns big-picture thinking into clear, shared direction. It connects the People Strategy narrative to Westpac’s competitive context, translating research and insights into targeted strategy shifts. Clear, compelling written narratives and artefacts help bring the strategy to life, creating shared understanding across leaders and teams. Progress is tracked against key indicators and delivery milestones, while People teams are influenced and supported to sequence and align initiatives to deliver enterprise priorities.

This is a full-time role with flexibility to support hybrid ways of working.

What do I need?

To be successful, you’ll bring strong strategic thinking with a practical, people-focused approach. You’ll likely have:

• Experience designing and shaping workforce or people strategies
• Proven strategic storytelling capability, crafting written narratives to bring a strategy to life
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Confidence working with senior leaders and diverse stakeholders
• Ability to interpret and connect research, insight and business priorities
• Ability to define success measures, set meaningful KPIs, and track strategy performance
• A collaborative mindset and comfort working across complex environments

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today

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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website