Cochlear’s mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a world full of sound. We aim to transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss and innovate to connect people with future technologies. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to experience a lifetime of hearing.
The Opportunity
Cochlear has an opportunity for a Senior Manager, Strategic Planning based at our Macquarie University Global Headquarters. In this role, you will be responsible for leading enterprise‑wide strategic planning processes, driving long‑range financial planning, and providing high‑quality insights to support Executive and Board‑level decision‑making.
You will play a pivotal role in shaping Cochlear’s future direction by integrating business strategy, financial modelling and commercial insights. This position also leads key finance transformation initiatives and partners closely with senior leaders across global markets and functions.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead the development, refinement and delivery of the organisation’s 5‑year strategic and financial plan
- Support annual strategic and financial planning cycles including Budget, Forecasts, IBP and Enterprise Planning
- Deliver accurate, strategic and insightful reporting for the Executive Team and Board
- Translate business drivers into integrated strategic assumptions to assess performance against long‑term objectives
- Provide strategic business partnering — challenging assumptions, assessing risks and identifying growth opportunities
- Partner with transformation, finance and cross‑functional teams globally to build simple, consistent and scalable processes
- Lead improvements and global rollout of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process
- Maintain strong financial governance to ensure high data integrity and reliable insight generation
- Coach and develop a team member to deliver strategic planning function outcomes
What makes this opportunity unique?
This role allows you to directly influence Cochlear’s long‑term strategic direction and organisational scalability. You will work with senior executives and a variety of stakeholders globally, shape Strategic and enterprise planning frameworks, and contribute to major decisions affecting the future of the business.
About You
As we grow, we are looking for people who share our passion for delivering impactful hearing solutions to customers worldwide. To be successful in this role, you will bring deep strategic capability, strong commercial acumen and strong stakeholder leadership.
Essential:
- 10+ years’ experience in strategy, strategic finance, commercial strategy and corporate planning within multinational organisations
- Strong strategic thinking with proven ability to link business strategy to financial outcomes
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to convert data into strategic insights
- Demonstrated success in Financial Planning & Analytics, enterprise planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting
- Experience leading and delivering finance or business transformation initiatives
- Advanced financial modelling skills and high proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder management and executive‑level presentation capability
- Effective across multiple time zones and flexible work environments
- Comfortable with ambiguity, building new processes and operating in maturing business areas
- Outstanding analytical and problem‑solving capability
- Highly effective influencer with strong senior‑leadership engagement skills
- Strong collaboration across diverse stakeholder groups, including executives and peers
- Hands‑on, proactive style; willing to deep‑dive into data and analyse reports prepared by others
- Proficient with ERP/BI systems such as SAP
- Qualifications in Accounting, Finance, Strategy or related fields (CA/CPA/CIMA beneficial but not essential)
Ideal:
- Experience in high‑tech or healthcare industries
- Background in finance systems design, implementation and optimisation
If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.
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How we recognise your contribution
At Cochlear we value and welcome the unique contributions, perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds of our employees and aim to build a culture that celebrates and leverages these differences, creating a sense of belonging and enabling our people to realise their full potential. Through our internal programs and employee benefits, we aim to create an environment where our people will feel value and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you.
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