About Us (Suncorp Bank)

At Suncorp Bank you can build a career with exceptional growth potential, within a culture of purpose and belonging. As part of the ANZ Group, when you apply to join Suncorp Bank, you'll be directed to ANZ systems and receive correspondence and notifications from ANZ as part of the recruitment process.

About the Role

The Corporate Affairs team at Suncorp Bank plays a pivotal role in fostering and safeguarding the Bank’s reputation across our employees, customers, and the communities we serve. As part of this dynamic team, you will report to the Executive Manager (EM) of Corporate Affairs, contributing to the development and execution of communications that support the Bank’s corporate priorities and strategic objectives.
 

In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior spokespeople and leaders, offering strategic counsel and support across all areas of corporate affairs. This includes guiding content strategy, people communications, media relations, and issues management in close collaboration with the broader Corporate Affairs team. Your expertise will be crucial in helping to shape the narrative and enhance the Bank’s position in the market while navigating complex communications challenges.

Role Location: 80 Ann Street, Brisbane QLD 4000
Role Type: Permanent, Full-time

What will your day look like?

As the Manager for Corporate Affairs, you will: 

• Implementing communication strategies that align with business goals, ensuring consistent messaging across all channels in close collaboration with senior leadership. 
• Overseeing the creation and distribution of content across both internal and external channels, ensuring it aligns with the organisation’s behaviours and strategic goals.
• Managing the company’s online presence, create content for digital channels, and enhance the company’s digital footprint to engage target audiences.
• Maintaining alignment of the company’s brand across platforms and manage public relations strategies and issues to protect and enhance the company’s reputation, while monitoring media coverage and responding to potential reputation risks.Handling media inquiries, preparing press releases, and general media engagement. Additionally, you will develop internal communication strategies to engage employees, keep them informed on key initiatives, and ensure alignment between internal and external messaging.
• In the event of a crisis, you will prepare and execute crisis communication plans and manage messaging.
• Collaborating with other departments to ensure consistent communication and manage relationships with external stakeholders. 
• Tracking and reporting on communication metrics and provide leadership with insights into how communications support business goals.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following: 

•    Strategic thinking: outcomes focused, displays business acumen, strong problem-solving capability, creative in finding solutions
•    Broadens perspective: strong on maintaining situational awareness, looks ahead for obstacles and opportunities, and curious about new information and diverse perspectives
•    Exercises sound judgement: makes sound and timely decisions, calm under pressure
•    Project management: ability to produce, consult and follow through on significant communications plans and strategies (incl. digital and social) 
•    Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills 
•    Demonstrated growth mindset and/or how to bring it out in others 
•    Skills in fostering collaboration across diverse areas 
•    Extensive experience in same and similar fields, eg communications, PR and media 

You're not expected to have 100% of these skills. We value a growth mindset, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we'd love to hear from you. 

So why join us? (Suncorp Bank)

Suncorp Bank is a proud part of the ANZ Group and a place where you'll be doing work that really matters. That's because every role, in every team is working towards supporting the financial wellbeing of our million+ customers.

Our team members' wellbeing is a top priority and we know it's the added extras outside the workplace that can make all the difference. We offer a range of benefits and support resources so you can create a healthy work-life balance, helping you bring your best every day. We also provide tools that enable remote work to support flexible work arrangements whenever possible.

Being part of Suncorp Bank opens a world of exceptional growth opportunities, across Suncorp Bank as well as the many divisions within the ANZ Group which operates in almost 30 markets across the globe.

Suncorp Bank is committed to creating a workplace where people from all backgrounds, identities and beliefs can thrive in an environment of inclusivity and mutual respect. We welcome applications from everyone and invite you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at Suncorp Bank and the ANZ Group, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 88577.

Job Posting End Date

06/03/2025 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)