Established Multi-Site Community & Property Business | Melbourne
Executive Leadership | Commercial & Financial Acumen | Strategy & Innovation
Sawyer Sourcing has been exclusively engaged to undertake the search for aCEOto lead an established and successful privately owned Melbourne-based organisation through an important generational transition.
Operating across three significant community-based locations comprising approximately 600 residences, the business has a long and successful history, strong underlying assets and an established management team.
After more than two decades of founder leadership, the organisation is now seeking an accomplished and commercially sophisticated executive to take responsibility for the business and lead its next chapter.
This is not simply a business-as-usual CEO appointment.
The incoming CEO will be entrusted with protecting and enhancing an established operation while bringing fresh thinking to its future.
Working closely with the Board, they will have the opportunity to review the existing business model, strengthen organisational capability and identify new opportunities for innovation, diversification and sustainable growth.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Board and leading an established management team, the CEO will have overall responsibility for:
Strategic leadership and execution
Financial and commercial performance
Multi-site operational leadership
Governance, risk and regulatory compliance
Property and asset performance
People, culture and organisational capability




Identification and evaluation of new business opportunities
Building strategic partnerships and complementary revenue streams
Leading the successful transition from founder-led to executive-led management
With the existing portfolio mature and well established, the Board is particularly interested in appointing a CEO who will look beyond traditional operating models and ask"what's next?
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This could include new services, partnerships, acquisitions, complementary business activities or future development opportunities.
The successful executive will have the commercial judgement to distinguish genuinely attractive opportunities from ideas that do not withstand rigorous financial and strategic analysis.
About You
We are deliberately keeping the candidate market broad.
Previous experience within this organisation's particular sector isnot essential.
You may currently be a CEO, COO, CFO/COO, General Manager, Commercial Director or senior executive within property, healthcare, aged care, community services, accommodation, professional services or another multi-site or asset-intensive business.
More significant will be your demonstrated ability to understand and lead an entire enterprise.
You will bring:




Exceptional financial and commercial acumen, including P&L;, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow and capital allocation
Strong strategic and analytical capability
Sound understanding of contracts, commercial risk, governance and legal matters
Proven operational leadership and the ability to lead through others
An entrepreneurial mindset balanced by disciplined commercial judgement
Experience identifying and evaluating new business or growth opportunities
High emotional intelligence, maturity and diplomacy
The confidence to lead an established organisation through significant leadership transition
Outstanding Board, stakeholder and communication skills
Relevant tertiary qualifications are expected, with anMBA or equivalent postgraduate business qualification highly regarded.
Accounting, finance, legal, property or governance qualifications would also be viewed favourably.
A Rare CEO Opportunity
This appointment offers the opportunity to inherit a successful and established business rather than repair a broken one.
The challenge is to understand what has made it successful, ensure those strengths are retained, establish the organisation for its next generation of leadership and determine where its future opportunities lie.
A carefully managed transition and knowledge-transfer process with the Founder and Board will form an important part of the appointment.
Melbourne based | Executive remuneration commensurate with the significance of the appointment
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📌 Chief Executive Officer (Melbourne)
🏢 Sawyer Sourcing
📍 Melbourne