About your team
The Digital Trust team is a high-calibre group of AI governance, privacy and data governance experts, responsible for setting the frameworks, standards and guardrails that enable responsible value creation across Wesfarmers Corporate Office, OneDigital, and for key Group initiatives.
Partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, Assurance and Cyber teams, the team helps manage digital and technology risks and support compliance across the Group.
About you
You bring extensive experience across at least one of AI governance, privacy or data governance, gained within a large, complex or decentralised organisation. Ideally, you offer depth across two or more of these areas and a credible working knowledge of the other.
You have demonstrated experience developing governance frameworks, standards, controls, metrics and reporting, and can translate complex regulatory requirements into practical minimum expectations and business processes.
Just as important is your judgement and ability to influence senior stakeholders. You are comfortable providing constructive challenge, working through ambiguity and balancing commercial outcomes with effective risk management.
What you’ll do
As Senior Manager, Digital Trust, you'll help shape how AI governance, privacy and data governance risks are managed across Wesfarmers, at a Group level.
Working across divisions and Corporate Office functions, you'll set the Group's standards and guardrails, provide oversight and constructive challenge on key risks and decisions, and build the capability, frameworks and practices that support effective risk management while preserving divisional accountability.
Operating within Wesfarmers' divisional autonomy model, you'll influence outcomes through expertise, insight and judgement rather than direct operational control.
You'll lead and support across:
What you’ll need
About Wesfarmers
As one of Australia’s largest listed companies, we’re proud of our longstanding contribution to Australians.
We continually reinvent ourselves and invest in the businesses we own and operate, including leading retailers like Bunnings, Kmart, Target, Officeworks and Priceline. We also have an online offering, including OnePass and the Group shared data asset.
Our work doesn’t stop there, we operate in the industrials sector which supplies the nation with chemicals, energy and fertilisers, and industrial and safety products. And we participate in an integrated lithium joint venture, including the operation of a mine and concentrator and the development of a refinery.
Join the team at Corporate Office which provides support and advice across the Wesfarmers Group
The Corporate Office provides corporate services and support to the autonomous businesses within the Wesfarmers Group, enabling the achievement of Group objectives.
It leads capital allocation and portfolio management for the Group and focuses on leveraging and enhancing the Group’s reputation to support attraction and retention of talent, securing investment opportunities and maintaining a low-cost capital.
To do this, we need great people, working together and role modelling our values and ways of working.
Our culture
We’re focused on results, but we’re a business that cares. Here we are less about titles and more about everyone playing a valuable role. We provide autonomy and space with freedom to operate, quickly learning from mistakes because we know they are part of the way forward. We’re curious, open minded, and collaborative. And although we’re thought leaders, we’re humble, and willing to share knowledge and learn from one another.
We know that diversity fosters greater innovation and better customer connection, so we strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment.
Next steps
If this sounds like your next career move, then combine your cover letter and resume into one document and click on the 'Apply' button by Friday, 18 September 2026. Please note that we may commence interviewing of candidates prior to this closing date.
For brief enquiries please contact Wesfarmers Corporate Talent Acquisition via careers@wesfarmers.com.au
We’re hiring the best and the brightest talent. Let’s start to explore the possibilities of achieving great things together.
For more information, visit our website at https://www.wesfarmers.com.au
Wesfarmers — a diversified corporation
From its origins in 1914 as a Western Australian farmers' cooperative, Wesfarmers has grown into one of Australia's largest listed companies. With headquarters in Western Australia, its diverse business operations cover: home improvement and outdoor living; apparel and general merchandise; office supplies; and an Industrials division with businesses in chemicals, energy and fertilisers, and industrial and safety products. Wesfarmers is one of Australia's largest employers and has a shareholder base of approximately 484,000.
The primary objective of Wesfarmers is to provide a satisfactory return to its shareholders.
The company aims to achieve this by:
* satisfying the needs of customers through the provision of goods and services on a competitive and professional basis;
* providing a safe and fulfilling working environment for employees, rewarding good performance and providing opportunities for advancement;
* contributing to the growth and prosperity of the countries in which it operates by conducting existing operations in an efficient manner and by seeking out opportunities for expansion;
* responding to the attitudes and expectations of the communities in which the company operates;
* placing a strong emphasis on protection of the environment; and
* acting with integrity and honesty in dealings both inside and outside the company.
