Senior Manager - Portfolio Management

• Play a critical leadership role within the Office of the CFSO at Qantas Loyalty
• Lead Key Strategic Relationships and manage a high performing team
• Permanent Role Based at Mascot Head Office 

At Qantas Loyalty, we're building one of the leading global loyalty programs. As we accelerate towards our 2030 vision, disciplined capital deployment and strategic alignment are critical. Join us to shape the future of a diversified portfolio, spanning travel, financial services, retail and lifestyle.

As our Senior Manager – Portfolio Management, you will lead strategic prioritisation, annual planning, and portfolio-level investment governance. You will manage a team of Portfolio Managers, with a clear mandate to drive commercial discipline, capital allocation rigour, and strategic alignment across a diverse set of businesses within Qantas Loyalty.

Success of this role will be defined by whether Qantas Loyalty is investing in the right strategic initiatives, with clearly defined value, accountability, and impact.  You will have the ability to influence senior leaders, challenge assumptions, and drive change across the organisation, as you help to shape and uplift the portfolio management maturity at Qantas Loyalty. 

Reporting to the Head of Strategy and Portfolio Management, you will be responsible for leading the Portfolio Management function in Qantas Loyalty. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Annual Planning Leadership: Leading Qantas Loyalty’s annual planning processes, including ongoing refinement and optimisation, ensuring that through it, there is strategic alignment and effective capital allocation.
• Strategic Portfolio Oversight: Play a central role in keeping the big picture view – providing leaders in Loyalty with clear oversight of strategic projects and priorities across multiple business areas.
• Value Realisation: Establishing frameworks and processes to track and assess the actual versus expected benefits of portfolio investments, driving a focus on tangible outcomes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivating and managing strong relationships with senior stakeholders across business units, acting as a trusted advisor on portfolio management best practices.
• Decision Support: Driving proactive decision-making through the ownership of regular, high-quality portfolio reporting, providing clear insights and early escalation of risks and delivery concerns.
• Commercial Acumen: Applying strong commercial understanding to evaluate investment opportunities and ensure optimal capital allocation.
• Portfolio Maturity Uplift: Guide business units to enhance portfolio and execution maturity across the organisation.

 What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in a Business-related field or relevant tertiary qualification.
• 8+ years’ experience across a blend of: Strategic portfolio management & enterprise planning; Corporate strategy, consulting and Program Management Office.
• Portfolio Management – Proven experience leading enterprise or multi-
  business-unit prioritisation, planning, and investment frameworks.
• Commercial and Financial Acumen – Strong capability in ROI modelling, cost-benefit
  analysis, and capital allocation decision support.
• Executive Stakeholder Management – Demonstrated ability to influence, challenge,
  and align senior leaders across diverse functional areas.
• Business Case Development – Skilled in developing or assessing robust business
  cases that align to strategic objectives.
• Strategic Planning Facilitation – Experience in running annual and quarterly planning
  cycles involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Value Realisation & Performance Tracking – Ability to define, track, and report on
  initiative value delivery against financial and strategic goals.
• Governance & Accountability Frameworks – Comfortable designing and embedding
  structures that hold leaders accountable for delivery.
• Team Leadership & Coaching – Experience managing and mentoring a team with a
  focus on strategic thinking and commercial judgement.
• Communication & Presentation Skills – Strong written and verbal communication
  skills with ability to distil complexity for executive audiences.
• Adaptability in Low Maturity Environments – Comfortable operating in a business
  with emerging portfolio discipline and siloed operations, while driving systemic
  change.

Why Qantas?

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully. There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel:

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Be a part of something special and play your part in the Qantas story – apply today!

Applications Close: 1st June 2025