Senior Transformation Manager

At Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH), we believe in bringing people together and connecting locals to their local pubs, enabling great experiences and positive, memorable moments. We are the largest hospitality provider in Australia, owning and operating venues in over 350 communities across Australia and focused on empowering our teams to bring every pub's story to life meaningfully for the locals.

As part of Endeavour Group, we are united behind a common purpose of ‘Creating a more sociable future together', we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 350+ hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy's, BWS and ALH.

• Join the ALH Strategy & Transformation team in this exciting new opportunity
• Drive transformation & strategic initiatives in this highly visible senior role.
• A unique opportunity within Australia's largest hospitality business

As the Senior Transformation Manager for ALH you will drive critical commercial, operational and guest experience transformation initiatives that form part of the ALH strategy, targeting areas that represent the most significant sources of growth or are the greatest challenges for the business. This senior manager level role will be part of the highly visible strategy implementation effort for the ALH / Hotels business and offers a unique chance to lead, drive and deliver innovative programs of work.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about pub culture, and making pubs better. We provide local communities with their favourite hospitality experiences across our 350 iconic venues, which includes Young and Jackson's, Queens Hotel, Ramsgate Hotel, Crows Nest Hotel and the Breakfast Creek Hotel. With many key transformational initiatives underway, we're on a mission to continue elevating the pub experience for our team and guests
• Excited to deliver real impact for venue teams and guests. The job requires a mix of thought leadership, analytical problem solving, stakeholder management and driving execution. We want you to be excited about improving the experience for venue teams and creating pub experiences our locals love
• Enjoys problem solving - and delivering impact in real time. You'll drive programs of work, overcome barriers to successful transformation delivery and refine solutions in partnership with business teams. Importantly this role is about people and delivery - this is not a PMO role (although being skilled in project and change management is a necessary baseline).

Sound good? Read on:
Here's a taster of the Senior Transformation Manager responsibilities:

• As a trusted business partner to the leadership team, proactively drive the transformation agenda - ensuring effective execution & delivery of targeted transformation outcomes
• Represent LT sponsors, as the transformation delegate, in relevant forums and apply sound judgement to decision making around tactical and strategic plans
• Leverage your commercial & operational experience to inject thought leadership on strategic initiative objectives, approach and delivery
• Apply strategic thinking and problem solving skills to structure problems, design & execute appropriate analysis/research, and develop creative and innovative commercial actions to solve
• Engage and maintain strong relationships with other matrixed teams in the business, to ensure successful delivery of the strategic & transformation priorities.
• Lead & own core program and initiative deliverables and outcomes alongside the business teams, driving project execution efforts.
• Apply transformation toolkit to successfully establish and deliver programs & initiatives, including scoping, formulation of approach, information gathering, hypothesis testing and analysis and formulation of solutions.
• Implement consistent project & program management methodologies & frameworks to guide & support efforts.
• Coach and support business teams on best practices.
• Identify change management needs and guide change management efforts.

Now let's talk about you:

• Senior transformation experience (5-7+ years) gained in a large matrix corporate environment, strategy consultancy, private equity or similar relevant field.
• Demonstrated experience operating in large transformation programs.
• Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of strategic problem solving and frameworks, and end-to-end program / project management.
• Superb written and oral communication.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
• Experience in hospitality or similar consumer environments is desirable.
• Experience in gaming, wagering or financial services environments is desirable.

The benefits are good too

• We offer flexible working in every sense
• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy's, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• Monthly meeting-free days
• Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it's our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone's welcome - If you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

We are together creators
With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy's, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We're serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.

We're all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other.If this job excites you - and you're close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we'd love to hear from you.

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At ALH, we believe in bringing people together and connecting locals to their neighbourhood pubs ,enabling great experiences and positive, memorable moments. We operate over 340 licensed venues, making us the country’s largest on-premise venue operator.

We’re a market leader offering a diverse range of hospitality experiences including electronic gaming, sports bars, bistros, restaurants, cafes, accommodation and nightclubs.

We work as one team to contribute to the communities we serve, and as part of the Endeavour Group we’re committed to creating a more sociable future together. If you love the idea of creating memorable hospitality experiences, then this is the place for you.

At ALH, we believe in bringing people together and connecting locals to their neighbourhood pubs ,enabling great experiences and positive, memorable moments. We operate over 340 licensed venues, making us the country’s largest on-premise venue operator.

We’re a market leader offering a diverse range of hospitality experiences including electronic gaming, sports bars, bistros, restaurants, cafes, accommodation and nightclubs.

We work as one team to contribute to the communities we serve, and as part of the Endeavour Group we’re committed to creating a more sociable future together. If you love the idea of creating memorable hospitality experiences, then this is the place for you.

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