Senior Manager Executive Development

Req ID: 126622

Department: C&TD Executive Experience, Resourcing & Talent Dev

Division: Talent & Culture

Location: melbourne

About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

ANZ’s 2030 strategy is transforming our bank to win the preference of customers, shareholders, and the community. The Executive Experience team plays an important role in building the culture, leadership and capability ANZ needs to deliver this strategy through our ~650 most senior leaders. Our work connects executive recruitment, assessment, succession, development, coaching, talent programs and transition support to create a more coherent executive experience and strengthen ANZ's leadership pipeline

About the Role

Join our Executive Experience team as a senior leader responsible for shaping how ANZ develops and accelerates its executive talent.

As Senior Manager, Executive Development, you will lead enterprise initiatives spanning talent and succession, executive development, and coaching. You will partner with senior executives and Talent & Culture leaders to understand critical leadership needs, strengthen succession pipelines and create targeted development experiences that prepare leaders for broader and more complex roles.

This is an opportunity to influence the leadership capability of one of Australia's largest organisations. You will combine deep expertise in organisational and leadership development with strong commercial judgement, data-led insight and an ability to translate strategy into practical, high-impact solutions.

You will also play an important role in connecting executive development with the broader executive lifecycle, ensuring insights from assessment, talent reviews and succession planning translate into meaningful development, deployment and career outcomes.

Role Type: Permanent/Full time
Role Location: Melbourne
Work Hours: 40 Hours

What will your day look like?

Design and lead enterprise talent experiences for critical executive talent, connecting assessment, development, mentoring, sponsorship and career opportunities.
Contribute to succession planning for enterprise-critical roles by assessing leadership readiness, capability gaps and pipeline risks.
Shape and deliver an integrated executive development offering aligned to ANZ's strategy, culture and future capability priorities.
Partner directly with senior executives to understand leadership needs and create personalised development and readiness plans.
Provide or source high-quality executive coaching, assessment and development support that strengthens leadership effectiveness and prepares executives for future opportunities.
Partner across T&C to facilitate high-quality talent and succession discussions with senior leaders, bringing evidence, insight and constructive challenge to decision-making.
Use talent, assessment and workforce data to identify leadership capability needs, measure impact and guide future investment.
Partner across Talent & Culture to connect executive development with recruitment, transitions, talent, performance, reward and broader organisational priorities.
Build strong relationships with external experts, coaches, assessment providers and thought leaders to bring leading practice and fresh thinking into ANZ.
Prepare clear, decision-ready insights and communications for senior executives, the Executive Committee and Board stakeholders.
Monitor the effectiveness of leadership and talent interventions and continuously improve the offer based on evidence, feedback and changes in ANZ's operating environment.

What will you bring?

- Significant experience in executive or senior leadership development, talent management, succession planning or organisational development within a large and complex organisation.
- Deep expertise in designing and delivering leadership interventions that translate organisational priorities into meaningful development outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to build credibility with senior executives and operate as a trusted advisor on sensitive and complex leadership and talent matters.
- Experience using assessment, talent and workforce data to identify needs, build evidence-based recommendations and measure impact.
- Strong business and commercial acumen, with the ability to connect leadership capability to strategy, organisational performance, culture and risk.
- Excellent consulting, facilitation and influencing skills, including the confidence to constructively challenge and guide senior stakeholders.
- Experience managing external partners and creating an effective ecosystem of coaches, assessment providers and leadership specialists.
- Strong program and project leadership skills, with the judgement and pragmatism to deliver outcomes in an evolving environment.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, actionable advice.
- A relevant postgraduate qualification in organisational psychology, human resources, behavioural science or a related discipline would be highly regarded.
- Executive coaching or leadership assessment accreditation would also be highly regarded.
You're not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ, a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Posting End Date

13/11/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)