At Summerset, it's the passion and dedication of our people that bring our villages to life. Across all our roles, we work together as one team to create the best possible life for our residents.
As one of New Zealand's leading retirement village operators, we're continuously evolving and investing in better ways of working to support our residents, our people, and our growing business.
We're looking for an experienced Transformation Manager to join us on a 2-year fixed-term contract and play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering transformation across our Finance and People & Culture functions.
Reporting to the CFO, the Transformation Manager is responsible for leading and delivering Finance and People & Culture transformation initiatives that improve how work gets done across the organisation.
Partnering closely with senior leaders across Finance, People & Culture, Technology and the wider business, you'll develop and drive an integrated transformation roadmap spanning people, process, technology and data initiatives. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, helping establish governance frameworks, drive prioritisation, develop business cases, and deliver meaningful change that improves efficiency, effectiveness, employee experience, controls and scalability.
This role is Fixed Term (2 Years), please click here to view position description.
You are a strategic thinker who enjoys turning ideas into practical outcomes. You thrive in environments where you can bring structure to complexity, influence stakeholders, and drive meaningful change. Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels, you're equally capable of shaping future priorities and rolling up your sleeves to help deliver them.
You bring strong commercial acumen, excellent relationship-building skills, and the ability to lead through influence rather than authority. Most importantly, you're proactive, outcomes-focused and motivated by creating lasting improvements across people, processes and systems.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in shaping the future of two critical functions at Summerset. Working alongside the CFO, Chief People Officer and other senior leaders, you'll have the scope to influence strategic priorities, improve organisational capability, and deliver transformation initiatives that create lasting business value.
You'll join an organisation with ambitious growth plans, where you'll have the autonomy to challenge thinking, drive change, and see the tangible impact of your work across people, processes, systems and ways of working.
Ready to bring your skills to life?
If you're an experienced transformation leader who thrives on improving how organisations operate and delivering meaningful change across people, process and technology, we'd love to hear from you. Join Summerset and help shape the future of our Finance and People & Culture functions through initiatives that create lasting impact.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. If you tick most of the boxes and are excited by the opportunity, don’t hesitate to apply. Applications close on 22nd September.
Summerset is one of New Zealand's leading retirement village operators, and more than 8,000 New Zealanders call Summerset home. Our vibrant villages focus on bringing the best of life to our residents, and we offer a continuum of care to provide peace of mind should the care needs of our residents’ change.
Our recent expansion into Australia includes two retirement villages in development and five more in the works in Victoria.
Across Australasia Summerset provides a range of living options and care services to more than 8,000 residents and employs more than 2,800 staff. Summerset has corporate offices located in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Melbourne.
We offer a range of careers, from development and design through to care, village and property management, and corporate functions such as finance and marketing.
