WEHI
biomedical research
DivisionManager
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“Division Manager at WEHI. Skills: strategic analysis, business insights, structured analysis. Provide strategic analysis and business insights. Enable divisional leadership in understanding business implications”
Industry & Context.
Analytical and curious by nature; Ask the right questions; Test assumptions; Make sense of complex, ambiguous information
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Relevant qualifications in business or a related field, Extensive management experience providing business, planning or strategic analysis to support leadership decision-making in a complex organisation, ability to analyse and synthesise information across finance, workforce, operations and risk to identify implications, trade-offs and dependencies, Experience contributing to planning processes, business cases, implementation plans or similar decision-support activities, Experience working in a research, health, higher education or not-for-profit environment
What You'll Do.
Provide strategic analysis and business insights
Enable divisional leadership in understanding business implications
Advise leaders through framing options
Understand trade-offs
Integrate research priorities
Integrate dependencies
Integrate operating context
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with the Deputy Director; Work with Professional Services Business Partners; Work productively across disciplines; Work across professional boundaries
Communication Scope
Confident yet measured communicator; Contribute constructively to discussion; Challenge thinking respectfully; Frame issues clearly
Full Job Description
**Job Title** Division Manager **Job Description** _WEHI is transforming how our professional services teams empower and enable scientists to deliver world‑leading medical research now and into the future. Following a holistic review and redesign across our professional services and scientific support portfolios, we are now focused on strengthening our critical capabilities, aligning our structures and systems with strategic priorities, and empowering our people to do what they do best. We are now recruiting a variety of newly established positions to help shape and embed these new ways of working._ An exciting opportunity is available for a **Division Manager** to join the Office of the Deputy Director at Australia’s pre-eminent biomedical research institute. **About the position** The Division Manager operates with a high degree of autonomy providing strategic analysis and business insights to enable divisional leadership in understanding the business implications of scientific priorities. The role operates close to divisional decision-making, contributing expertise through structured analysis, synthesis and interpretation across strategy and operations from a divisional and scientific perspective. Working closely with the Deputy Director and Professional Services Business Partners, the Division Manager advises leaders through framing options, testing assumptions, surfacing implications and understanding trade-offs within defined problem spaces and priorities. The role facilitates informed decision-making, bringing a divisional lens to integrating research priorities, timing, dependencies and operating context. **Selection Criteria** Personal Qualities: * Sound judgement and intellectual maturity, with the ability to operate credibly alongside senior scientific and professional leaders. * Analytical and curious by nature, able to ask the right questions, test assumptions and make sense of complex, ambiguous information. * Confident yet measured communicator, able
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