AddressThere's No Us Without U. Care with Us, for Today and Tomorrow
There's no life without water, and at Urban Utilities, we live and breathe that knowledge every single day. As leaders, we inspire and empower our passionate team to drive meaningful change. Join us in shaping the future of Urban Utilities, making a lasting impact, and leading our teams towards a better tomorrow.
Your Opportunity
We have a new vacancy for a Manager Futures Strategy in our Integrated Solutions Group.
This role leads the Futures Strategy Development with a focus on maintaining downward pressure on customer bills. The role is critical to ensuring that business strategies are based on strategic drivers and confirmed through the Urban Utilities servicing strategies.
This team focusses on the 10 to 30 year horizon to ensure the strategic and future drivers for the Urban Utilities business are identified; defined using strategic evidence base and trend analysis; and customer impacts are understood to support strategy development and translation into actionable plans across the organisation.
Some of your accountabilities will include:
- Lead a team of subject matter experts by communicating the actions needed to implement the servicing strategy and associated strategic principles; set appropriate performance objectives for team members; manage change and resilience to ensure strategic objectives are achieved.
- Manage the delivery of the City and Regional Futures strategy to inform and translate corporate purpose, vision, value drivers & objectives.
- Create and manage the implementation of a watch tower framework and processes for capturing and evaluating new external developments and / or emerging issues that may have an impact on delivery of the Urban Utilities' strategies.
- Consulting with customer, community and stakeholder representatives to identify the strategic outcomes they require.
- Managing relevant internal specialists and utilising their expertise to gather and analyse complex data, clarify mid- to long-term trends and customer needs,
- Defining the future state of the Urban Utilities through the identification and development of adaptive planning and systems.
About You
- You possess strong leadership skills with a proven ability to manage multidisciplinary, integrated teams. You'll foster an inclusive and high-performing culture to safely deliver our servicing strategies.
- Have a critical thinking and growth mindset when looking to conceptualise risks and opportunities, whilst exhibiting high levels of perseverance and resilience, and can develop strategic plans to address, develop, and execute on these initiatives.
- Relevant bachelor's degree from a recognised institution and relevant industry knowledge and experience associated with either Economics, Policy, Law, Science, Town Planning, Commerce, or Business.
- Substantial experience in managing complex and diverse strategic planning programs within budget and on time whilst maintaining an excellent internal and external customer service and commercial focus.
- Substantial demonstrated capacity to establish and develop effective relationships with internal and external customers through the determination of needs, management of processes and delivery standards, instigation of continuous review and the development of staff competencies.
At UU, we celebrate diversity. We genuinely believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expressions is key and crucial to our success as a business. You might find you meet some, but not all, of the job requirements for this role. We'd still encourage you to apply as we we're looking for the right human being for this role - it's about so much more than ticking all the boxes!
Why Urban Utilities?
At Urban Utilities, the work we do is about so much more than the bottom line. We're a leading provider of world-class drinking water and wastewater services to the vibrant communities of Brisbane, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Somerset, and Scenic Rim. As we continue to grow, we're committed to planning ahead and shaping a sustainable future around water for generations to come.
At the core of our work lies genuine care: for our team, our customers, communities, and the environment. From the flush of a toilet to major infrastructure projects and residential developments, we're dedicated to being there every step of the way.
Our HQ is in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, but you'll find us all over SEQ - working in cool places like the SAS Laboratory in Darra, field-based depots in Eagle Farm, Acacia Ridge, Bundamba, and wastewater treatment plants dotted across the region.
We know the chance to thrive, and progress comes hand in hand with the support to balance work with life. So, you'll access an increasingly diverse range of benefits and initiatives that'll help you bring the best you. Speaking of which, here's just a sample of the benefits we offer our team:
- Generous Salary Packaging options, including novated leases
- Corporate discounts across Health insurance, technology and more
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave, 15 days personal leave including two proactive wellbeing days, and an additional day of leave each year to connect with friends and family
- Flexibility at UU depends on the type of work you do but could include options such as, 9-day fortnights and flexible days. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you!
- Urban Utilities is an endorsed employer for all women. See our range of benefits and policies directly at WORK180
Visit our website to learn more about us at www.urbanutilities.com.au
How to apply
Click on the 'Apply" link below to complete your application.
Please note: applicants will be required to undergo a Pre-employment medical & National Police History Check as part of the recruitment process for this role.
For further information please contact our Talent team at *******@urbanutilities.com.au
