Job Description

Optus is a leading Telecommunications company that is known for delivering innovative solutions to its customers, disrupting the industry, and becoming a technology company with a diverse offering of products and services. With a strong commitment to excellence and a customer-centric approach, we’re committed to pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and digital channels to accelerate our strategy.

The Senior Director will represent the office of Security and Risk on the Networks SLT, supported by a centralized team of architecture and risk professionals, working in partnership with the business unit risk leads to identify, assess, report on, and monitor all risks and issues, and strengthen controls.

What You’ll Do

Partnering closely with the GM, Security and Risk Transformation, Optus executive leadership, and Networks senior leadership team, you will lead implementation, adherence, and effectiveness of Optus risk management standards across Networks.

Strong leadership capabilities, stakeholder management, systems thinking, and solutions-driven approach, are crucial skills. Given the seniority of the key stakeholders, there is a strong requirement to demonstrate a collaborative and solutions-driven approach, effectively building relationships and bringing stakeholders on board, whilst also having the confidence to challenge in a constructive manner when required. The role will undertake enablement activities in support of driving a risk aware culture and knowledge development. The role also requires strong understanding of how an organization operates and how risk needs to be considered in operational and strategic decision making. Being able to draw insights and identify systemic issues and emerging risks are critical requirements of the role.

What You’ll Bring

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• 15+ years in enterprise risk, operational risk management, risk engineering, internal audit, combined with sound understanding of network engineering
• Experience in leading a team of senior risk specialists
• Board/C-level stakeholder management and comfortability presenting to this level
• Ability to navigate large and complex enterprise environments
• Influencing diverse stakeholders are varying levels of seniority
• Understanding risk and controls standards and other industry frameworks and best practice standards large, enterprise risk environments with Line 1 risk experience
• Demonstrated experience in using risk tooling and methodologies to undertake required reporting and governance activities
• Capability to merge and analyse data sets from multiple internal and external sources to draw insights
• Ability to effectively interrogate a process and identify critical risk
• Customer-centric, independent decision-making authority that will impact process and OPEX in Optus
• Background and strong understanding of in telecommunications networking
• Degree qualification in Engineering or similar discipline
• Qualification in Risk Management or Internal Audit
• Resilience, growth mindset, and appetite to build for transformation
  
  

The Good Stuff...

• 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.
• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
• 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 AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

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