Aviation Development Manager

Company description:

We keep millions of people moving every day and continue to be Australia's leading transport fuel supplier and convenience retailer. Our business is dynamic and often technical, and we rely on talented people who seek to find solutions. Whatever your journey, we're the fuel that gets you there. Ampol, Australia's own.

Job description:

• Location: Brisbane or Sydney
• Bring your operational expertise and high level of commercial acumen to make a difference within our Aviation Operations Business
• Be part and work collaboratively with the Aviation Leadership team

About Ampol:

Our company has always been about more than powering Australia. Our motivation and purpose come from the people, businesses, industries and communities we engage with.

From our origins until today, we've always been inspired by the role we can play in people's lives - to keep them moving, to make journeys happen.

For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we'll be here for 100 more.

About the role:

Reporting to the National Aviation Operations Manager, this is a newly created role to provide effective leadership, motivation and execute operational business excellence across Aviation Operations.

This role will primarily develop, implement projects and initiatives including business improvement, revenue streams, inventory, optimising third party activities and contract renegotiation and/or compliance to contracts.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage 3rd party agreements to ensure safe and compliant operation.
• Ensure effective safety and operational management systems.
• Drive performance and sustainability to ensure long term growth.
• Ensure compliance is adhered to at all aspects of Ampol and Legislative requirements.
• Provide operational input for strategic and key projects.
• Be the champion of continuous improvements and initiatives.
• Ensure business processes operation seamlessly across departmental interfaces (Supply, Finance, P&C, B2B sales).
• Work closely and maintain cross functional stakeholder relationships

About you:

You have proven strong operational leadership experience preferably within Aviation Operation and/or Fuel industry. Your high level of strategic skills and commercial acumen will thrive in this role with strong interpersonal skills to positively engage, build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationship.

Key skills and experience:

• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Finance or Engineering or equivalent experience
• Strong leadership and operational experience within fuel or related industry
• Strong understanding of fuel and Aviation industry within Australia
• High level of Business and Commercial acumen
• Strategic thinking and ability to develop and communicate a clear vision for Ampol's joint venture partnerships
• Effective risk management experience both operationally and commercial
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)

Our benefits:

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• Remote Working: Support for up to 3 months remote international working (conditional to 5 days paid leave for every 30 days of remote work).
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid)
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Leave Options: We offer wellbeing leave and leave purchasing.
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.
• Check out our benefits and policies on the Work180 website.

We're an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.

Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today.

Applications close on 4 April 2024.