Corporate Affairs Lead

• Permanent, full-time role 
• Sydney based
• 3 days per week in the office 

How will I help?

If you enjoy working in a fast-paced Corporate Affairs environment and want to further your career, this could be the role for you.

Westpac is looking for a creative and driven senior communications professional to join our Corporate Affairs team.

The Corporate Affairs Lead supports internal and external communications for Business Lending and Commercial & Relationship Banking lines of business, as part of the Business & Wealth Division.

The day-to-day role includes:

• developing and delivering end-to-end internal communications strategies to support business objectives and employee engagement
• management of internal All Ins and event
• developing creative external media campaigns 
• briefing and preparing spokespeople for media interviews and external opportunities
• providing trusted media and reputational counsel to the business and its leaders
• producing written and video communication materials 
• effectively identifying, mitigating, and managing business issues

We’re looking for a communications professional to help support our senior leaders craft and deliver messages to connect and empower their teams.  This position plays a crucial role in lifting employee engagement and supporting our business with new initiatives and campaigns.

This role will champion new media opportunities for the Business & Wealth division, with a strong focus on generating proactive stories. Maintaining and building strong media networks through consistent, transparent, and effective media engagement is critical, as is the ability to navigate the social media environment.

Importantly the candidate will be ready to hit the ground running bringing new ideas and creative thinking to the way we deliver our communications. We’re looking for a proactive and driven team player with proven ability to collaborate with others and drive ideas to deliver outstanding results.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is creating better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grown, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

What do you need?  

• Minimum eight years’ communications experience working in Corporate Affairs or similar communications roles
• Ability to build and manage strong relationships with senior executives and a range of stakeholders and business partners
• Strategic thinking, flexibility, ability to respond to short deadlines, to operate independently and effectively in a fast-paced work environment
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Open to learning new communication technology systems and processes

What is it like to work there?

We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will have access to banking, wealth and insurance benefits.

How do I apply?

Start here. Just click on the APPLY button.

The health and wellbeing of our employees is our top priority. We’ve developed clear standards to ensure our people are confident, safe and healthy whether they’re working from a Westpac Group site or working from home. These are based on expert medical advice and Safe Work Australia guidelines.

As part of our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, this role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If an adjustment is required to assist you during our recruitment process, please email ***************@westpac.com.au

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?

At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating inclusive and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community.

We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please call 1800 655 592 Option 1.2 or email ***************@westpac.com.au