The Opportunity

Our Strategy and Performance Improvement team is growing, we are seeking an experienced consulting professionals at the Director level, bringing strategy and performance improvement expertise. The successful candidate should be someone who brings strong strategic, commercial and financial acumen, who is comfortable across multiple sectors, and ready to work collaboratively as part of a high performing team to grow the business and deliver value for clients.

Responsibilities

- As a Director, you will lead teams and collaborate with clients across a range of industries to develop and deliver impactful engagements from strategic operating model reviews through to delivery of operational and financial performance improvement solutions, including:
- Performance Optimisation & Value Creation: Identify, quantify, and present revenue uplift, cost reduction, productivity, and margin improvement opportunities, and translating them into robust business cases.
- Strategy Development: Collaborate with senior executive leaders to define an organisation's strategic vision and direction and develop the strategic plan to achieve it.
- Target Operating Model Design: Design future-state operating models aligned to strategy, covering organisation, processes, governance, and service delivery.
- Implementation & Benefits Realisation: Develop practical implementation roadmaps, track financial benefits, and support execution of Financial and Performance Optimisation changes for clients.
- Business Development: Work with our leadership to grow the practice by contributing to business development, proposals and practice initiatives.
- Engage with Stakeholders: Work collaboratively with stakeholders which may include senior Federal/State leaders to design and deliver workshops, presentations, and reports.
- Learn and Grow:



Work closely with senior colleagues to deepen your consulting skills, industry knowledge, and professional confidence.

Requirements

You bring a combination of:

- Significant experience within a Tier 1, boutique or mid-tier consulting practice in organisational strategy, financial advisory, or transformation roles - specifically strategy, target operating model design and financial performance improvement engagements.
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems into clear hypotheses, rigorous analysis and actionable recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex engagements and manage senior client relationships.
- Strong financial analysis and business case modelling skills, including revenue, cost, productivity, and benefits realisation.
- Experience assessing and redesigning operating models, covering organisation structure, processes, governance, and service delivery.
- Robust written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate insights into compelling executive narratives that influence critical decisions.
- Comfortable working in rapid-paced, ambiguous, and change-driven environments.
- Capable of leading proposals and business development initiatives, identifying new engagement opportunities, nurturing client relationships and thought leadership pieces.
- Ability to coach and develop more junior staff.

Benefits

- Market leading Parental Leave : Allows either carer to take 26 weeks of leave, flexibly,



until a child is two years of age. A six-month minimum service requirement for new starters applies. We also make full superannuation contributions for up to 12 months (including unpaid parental leave).
- Flexible working : Our people have the autonomy to choose where and when they work so they can integrate their professional and personal lives, finding the right balance that fuels their growth, wellbeing, engagement and productivity. If it works for them, their teams, and their clients, it works for us.
- Additional leave : Includes Birthday leave, First Nations Cultural Leave, Floating Public Holidays, Leave+ (purchased leave up to 12 weeks), Study Leave, Volunteering Leave, and more!
- Smart device reimbursement : Working flexibly means accessing the information you need on the go. That's why we help pay for your smartphone or tablet, claiming up to $60 a month towards your bill.
- Wellness and Lifestyle benefits : We'll give you $295 a year to spend on items or activities that support your wellness, and up to $205 a year to support your balanced lifestyle.
- Sonder : A digital care platform that empowers people to actively take control of their wellbeing to live well and perform at their best, free to Scyne Employees and their immediate family members.

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We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and promoting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

We are passionate about improving outcomes with First Peoples, working in collaboration with government and community sectors towards programs which focus on First Nations clients, consumers and communities. We recognise the knowledge, insights and capabilities of First Peoples. Their strength, resilience and cultural competence a

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📌 Director - Strategy & Performance Improvement (Melbourne)
🏢 Scyneadvisory
📍 Melbourne