Senior Manager, Policy, Government Relations and Engagement Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day? At MLC Life Insurance, we're proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years.
We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians.
We're Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world's leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.
We're driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that's a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.
We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions.
We're a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
The Role Reporting into the Head of Corporate Relations and Communications, the Senior Manager, Policy, Government Relations and Engagement is a newly created role within the Customer and Strategy team which will be focused on strengthening MLC Life Insurance's presence in advocating for public policy and engagement with Government and Industry in order to support the strategic objectives of the organisation.
You will play a key role in implementing the enterprise strategy for corporate relations through monitoring the public policy environment, developing and advocating policy positions with and to key external stakeholders including industry, government and semi-government bodies.
The role will support the Head of Corporate Relations and Communications (Ho CRC) and senior leaders to ensure the organisation implements a cohesive and consistent public policy, government, industry and stakeholder relations strategy that is aligned with the company's strategic objectives.
The role can be based either in our North Sydney office or our Docklands office in Melbourne.
About you You possess a minimum of 5+ years of experience in public policy, government relations, industry affairs or corporate affairs within an issue-rich and highly regulated environment.
You may come from a background of working in politics, familiar with providing ministerial support and/or directly working as a public policy specialist within the Government.
You possess sound judgment to discern potential impacts of policy changes to our business models/operations across the business and are able to frame a clear proactive action plan and execute with minimal supervision.
You thrive in working within a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, with the ability to pivot where necessary.
Lastly, you possess outstanding communication skills (both written and verbal) that will enable you to create policy submissions, briefing notes, presentations, media materials, speeches and digital content.
Bringing our best to life - why join us? We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.
We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.
We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.
We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.
We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.
We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.
Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed.
The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.
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