The Assistant Director, Strategic Insights contribute to the development and delivery of a new agency capability focused on proactively identifying emerging risks, opportunities and areas of potential misconduct across the economy before they are formally reported to the ACCC.

The Assistant Director will lead the application of market monitoring, horizon scanning and analytical approaches to identify emerging risks and opportunities. The role will contribute to generating evidence-based insights that help inform agency priorities, support decision making and support the identification and prioritisation of future regulatory and enforcement work.

The Assistant Director will contribute to the ongoing development of operating models, methods and practices that support the Strategic Insights capability, leading a high-performing multidisciplinary team, developing innovative methods and partnerships, and modelling new ways of working. The role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to how the ACCC identifies issues, prioritises resources and responds to an increasingly complex and data-rich economy.

As the Assistant Director, Strategic Insights, you will:

- Lead and support a high-performing multidisciplinary team comprising intelligence analysts, data specialists and other subject matter experts, role modelling our leadership behaviours, supporting a professional and collaborative working environment, coaching, giving continuous feedback, resolving conflict and facilitating career development.
- Contribute to the establishment and ongoing development of the ACCC's proactive detection capability, setting its strategic direction, operating model, priorities and work program.
- Identify, develop and deliver proactive detection initiatives and use cases, working closely with business areas to deliver outcomes that support agency priorities.




- Apply and champion creative analytical methods, data sources and technologies to improve delivery and insight generation, ensuring appropriate governance, risk management and ethical safeguards.
- Establish productive working relationships across the ACCC work collaboratively with stakeholders to deliver shared outcomes.
- Contribute to relationships with regulators, academia and other stakeholders to support capability development and knowledge sharing.

All candidates are expected to meet the APS Integrated Leadership Profile (ILS) for the classification advertised. Follow the link for more information on the ILS. This role in particular requires:
- Demonstrated experience leading a specialist team or similar role in a fast-paced and large complex people-centred organisation.
- Demonstrated experience delivering strategic insights, analytical initiatives, intelligence products or other evidence-based services that informed organisational decisions.
- Proven ability to analyse complex and incomplete information and communicate evidence-based recommendations tailored to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and build productive relationships across teams and stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated judgement, problem-solving and strategic thinking skills, including the ability to identify emerging issues, assess risks and develop practical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects or work programs, manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes within agreed timeframes

The team have a mix of specialist skills and abilities to complement the broad range of technologies we operate in support of our mission. Experience and qualifications in any of the disciplines below are highly desired but are not mandatory:
- Data analytics
- Data science
- Data engineering
- Intelligence
- Artificial intelligence

📌 Assistant Director, Strategic Insights (Australia)
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