Executive Manager, Practice Enablement

What’s the role?

As an Executive Manager, Practice Enablement you will define what good product ownership looks like at Westpac and grow the workforce to meet it. You'll be owning the product ownership standards, playbooks and quality bar, together with the capability framework, career pathways and skills taxonomy.

Key Responsibilities

- Owns product ownership standards, playbooks, reference patterns and the quality bar.
- Owns the Practice's contribution to the Westpac Delivery Lifecycle (WDLC) from a product ownership perspective.
- Owns the governance model, risk-informed deviation decisions and standard tooling for product ownership.
- Engages Risk, Legal and Compliance early so controls are embedded by design, not applied retrospectively.
- Runs the standards review cadence; retires, refreshes and adds standards based on evidence.
- Owns the capability maturity map, career pathways and skills framework.
- Owns training and learning pathways, the coaching approach and development goals guidance.
- Curates product ownership job architecture (with People, L&D; and Job Architecture partners).
- Partners with People and L&D; so capability pathways develop Practitioners to the defined standard.

What do I need?

To be successful in this role you should be a proven people leader with strong strategic thinking and business acumen.

Skills and Experience

- Ability to use data, digital and AI to improve operational efficiency.




- Proven Product Owner experience, including ownership of product vision, roadmap, backlog prioritisation and delivery of business outcomes.
- Change management experience on an end-to-end basis.
- Capability Framework and skills taxonomy design.
- Execution excellence & project management.
- Solid written and verbal communication.
- Ability to process, interpret and report data.
- Experience with financial management reporting and risk reporting.

Benefits

- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates.
- Flexible work arrangements to help achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help grow your career within the bank.
- Opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in volunteering initiatives.

We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

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📌 Executive Manager, Practice Enablement (City of Sydney)
🏢 Westpac
📍 City of Sydney