Business Manager

Are you ready to make a difference in the lives of others, and your own?

You'll be empowering and motivating employment consultants to drive the very best outcomes for job seekers who are in the Workforce Australia  program. Your teams' success is what drives you, so regular training and mentoring will be important, supporting them achieve their targets and deliver a quality service. You'll also lead by example, engaging with job seekers to provide tailored employment services.

APM delivers Employment Services Programs from over 400 sites nationally. This role will be managing teams across 3 locations in the South West Region, Kingaroy, Nanango or Murgon sites. You can be based at any one of these sites.

We lift people up, supporting them in employment, independence and improved wellbeing. It’s exciting, challenging, inclusive and rewarding. Together we aspire to enable better lives for our own people and the people we serve. 

Who are you?

Your business mindset is essential in interpreting data, forming business relationships with local employers and planning for your teams' future success. Resilience and problem solving is second nature to you, supporting you to solve complex issues as they arise.

You love working in a productive and collaborative environment, and want to bring your drive, passion and most importantly your first-class people and performance leadership to a role where you are enabling better lives. You’ll also pride yourself on collaboration with  colleagues to achieve great results and make a difference, together.

Am I suited to being an Business Manager with APM?

We find people with a background in people leadership, employment services, and management are a great fit for this role. Your ability to create and implement diverse, yet supportive performance strategies to support a team to meet business objectives, will make you a good fit for a Business Manager.

What you will be doing...

• Empowering and motivating a team for successful service delivery and performance outcomes
• Training and mentoring of your team and yourself
• Promotion of APM and our services
• Supporting the team to advocate and market our participants to local employers

To be considered, you will have...

• Eligibility to work in Australia
• A current driver’s licence and a comprehensively insured vehicle
• Willing to complete a Criminal History Check
• Ability to pass a Working with Children Check
• Ability to work Monday to Friday - 8:30am to 5:00pm
• Demonstrated leadership skills

As a member of the APM team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

• An attractive base salary + Super
• Supportive and interactive induction process with dedicated L&D team
• Genuine career development opportunities
• Work within a supportive and high performing team
• Discounted health insurance
• Access to our free Employee Assistance Program
• Ability to purchase additional leave
• Employee Wellbeing Program, and more!

About APM Group

We’re a diverse team of over 13,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose - to enable better lives. Our purpose is the common thread that lives in everything we do, and it starts with enabling better lives for our employees and their families too.

Our work enables the people we serve to realise their ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing, and increased social participation.

When you join APM, there’s an opportunity to grow your career in Human Services, across multiple global brands and geographies. You can expect a great work-life balance, extensive learning opportunities, networking programs and employee benefits. But most of all you can expect to make a lasting impact on the lives of others, who rely on our services.  

At APM we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities and cultures including indigenous peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people with a disability