Chief Business Officer

The Opportunity

Tourism Tasmania is recruiting for a Chief Business Officer—a strategic senior leadership position at the heart of a commercial government agency. You'll thrive in an environment where commercial rigour meets creative ambition, and where your work directly impacts Tasmania's visitor economy.

Reporting to the CEO and working closely with our Board and Executive Leadership Team, you'll drive commercial excellence, manage the agency budget, and lead the governance and business capability that enable sustainable growth toward our 2030 vision.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Drive commercial rigour across the organisation, ensuring strong ROI across all programs and partnerships
• Represent Tourism Tasmania across government and industry forums, building strategic partnerships and managing high-level negotiations
• Work with the Director of People & Transformation to lead business transformation programs and modernise processes
• Oversee all financial and commercial matters as the agency's most senior financial officer, managing the annual budget cycle and liaising with Treasury
• Lead legal, contracting, governance and risk functions, managing compliance audits and reporting to the Board's Audit & Risk Committee
• Provide strategic advice to the CEO, Executive team and Board on complex governance, risk, financial matters and organisational performance

 

Who you are:

You will be a strategic operator with an outcomes focussed approach. You will have the ability to work autonomously to rethink how we work by modernising processes, aligning resources to what matters most, and building commercial and governance approaches that fit today's challenges. You will have demonstrated previous experience working at the senior leadership level, ideally with prior experience advising the C-suite or equivalent.

To be successful in this role, you will need to be comfortable with complexity, confident at leading through change, and skilled at building alignment across teams. Though there will be several measures of success for this role, a key outcome will be the creation an agile, efficient and performance focussed organisation that can adapt quickly while staying true to our values.

If you're ready to put your skills to work in an organisation committed to the future of Tasmania, we would love to hear from you.

 

Period of appointment

3 years fixed term

 

How to apply

Please submit your current CV along with a statement of up to two pages outlining how your skills and experience match this role and why you're interested in joining Tourism Tasmania.

Supporting Documents

 Statement of Duties 

 Advice to Applicants (pdf)

 

For further information

We anticipate a strong interest in this role. If you have specific questions in addition to the SoD, please contact people@tourism.tas.gov.au and we will get back to you as soon as we can. Otherwise, we look forward to receiving your application!