National Workers Compensation Manager

The Arnott’s Group portfolio of brands continues the 160-year legacy of the Arnott family, providing quality, great-tasting food to create delicious moments for consumers across the world.

At The Arnott’s Group, you’ll join a diverse, values-driven team passionate about delivering quality products like Tim Tams, Shapes, V8 juice and more—plus enjoy them too!

We are proud of our legacy, but we aren't stopping here! Collaborators, innovators, and agile thinkers with a curious mind thrive here. Be part of a future which is full of delicious moments created locally, by you!

Drive national impact. Influence risk. Lead our workers compensation capability.

We’re looking for a National Workers Compensation Manager to partner closely with senior leadership and operational teams, you will influence mindset and behaviours, improve outcomes for injured workers, and deliver measurable reductions in claims cost and duration across a large scale, multi-site FMCG environment.

This is an opportunity to elevate an established business-critical capability - reducing risk, improving outcomes, and partnering closely with leaders across operations, P&C and finance to lead strategy, uplift capability and embed a proactive, prevention first culture.

The Opportunity

You’ll step into a role with strong foundations already in place - but with opportunity to:

• Influence key operational sites to reduce claims and cost
• Build on and strengthen stakeholder trust and engagement
• Lead a consistent, national framework for workers compensation

This role sits at the intersection of people, risk, and performance - and has real enterprise impact.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Leading the national workers compensation strategy and performance
• Driving claims governance, consistency, and decision-making discipline
• Partnering with site leaders, P&C and finance to improve outcomes
• Identifying trends and using data to reduce risk and prevent claims
• Embedding early intervention and return-to-work best practice
• Managing a proactive, insight-led capability across the network

What Success Looks Like

• Accurate and supported claims volume and cost
• Strong stakeholder alignment and trust
• Supporting consistency across sites
• Workers compensation embedded as a strategic partner – with strong partnerships across operations, P&C and finance

What We’re Looking For

Experience

• Senior workers compensation leadership in a multi-site or operational environment ideally within FMCG, manufacturing, logistics or a related sector
• Strong understanding of claims, RTW, and injury management and delivering improved return to work outcomes
• Experience working across complex regulatory environments (scheme and/or self-insurance)

Capability

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Strong commercial thinking - can link claims to business performance
• Ability to move from data to insight to action
• Experience shifting teams from reactive to proactive ways of working

Leadership Style

• Collaborative and relationship-led
• Calm, credible and pragmatic
• Commercially aware but genuinely people-focused
• Able to influence without relying on authority

Whats great about this opportunity?

• High-impact role with cost and risk ownership
• Opportunity to build on the established national strategy
• Broad exposure across operations, finance and people functions
• A chance to maintain strong BAU foundations and continue to build

Location & Flexibility

• Sydney-based across North Strathfield (Corporate) and Huntingwood (manufacturing site) with site engagement across our network
• Flexibility available, with an expectation of visible leadership presence which will require travel to locations across our network.

Our Culture:

We stand for high performance with integrity and find moments of pride and celebrate the wins gained from our collective effort. These are part of our culture and the cornerstones of The Arnott's way. When you join our team, you can expect to experience a real sense of belonging, be empowered with accountability, be recognised for your contribution, collaborate with great people.

Ready to Lead the Next Evolution?

If you’re looking to step into a role where you can drive meaningful business impact, influence nationally, and elevate a critical function, we’d love to hear from you.

We value diversity in our workforce. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please inform our team so that we can work together to support your needs throughout the recruitment process.

*We do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies