Business Operations Manager

Job No.: 687780

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: Continuing appointment

Remuneration: $140,157 - $148,769 pa HEW Level 9 (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Cultivate collaboration, accountability and service excellence at a world top 50 University
• Be the trusted business and financial adviser
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them

The Opportunity

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for operational excellence? Do you thrive in complex environments where your expertise drives real organisational impact? Monash Animal Research Platform (MARP) is searching for a dynamic Business Operations Manager to shape the future of our platform and strengthen our long-term sustainability.

In this pivotal role, you will be the trusted business and financial adviser to the MARP Director, driving performance, enhancing capability, and ensuring our operations run with precision, transparency and purpose. Managing a $23M budget and leading a high-performing team, you’ll oversee the business systems, administrative functions and financial frameworks that keep MARP at the forefront of excellence.

This is your opportunity to influence strategic planning, deliver high-level financial insights, and champion continuous improvement across a diverse and impactful operational landscape. Your leadership will cultivate collaboration, accountability and service excellence, empowering your team and the wider platform to achieve exceptional outcomes.

What You’ll Lead

• Strategic business and financial initiatives that shape MARP’s direction and performance
• Complex operational, administrative and financial functions across the platform
• Budgeting, forecasting, reporting and performance monitoring with strong oversight
• Continuous process improvement, quality control and service optimisation
• High-impact projects, policies and compliance processes that support organisational success
• Strong internal and external partnerships, including contract negotiation and management

What You Bring

• Extensive management experience and qualifications in business or financial operations
• A proven ability to lead teams that deliver meticulous, high-quality work and exceptional customer service
• Superior analytical, conceptual, planning and communication skills
• Expertise in strategic financial management, systems improvement and operational oversight
• The relationship-building finesse to influence, negotiate and partner across a complex organisation
• Advanced digital literacy and confidence with modern business management systems

Shape MARP’s future. Lead with purpose. Deliver with impact.

If you’re ready to bring your leadership, financial acumen and strategic thinking to a role where your contributions truly matter, we’d love to hear from you.

About Monash University

At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.

We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.

Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.

In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.

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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

To Apply

For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

Enquiries: Christine Findlay, Director, Monash Animal Research Platform, +61 3 9905 3260 or christine.findlay@monash.edu 

Position Description: Business Operations Manager

Applications Close: Thursday 5th March 2026, 11:55pm AEDT