Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.
Job Description
- Be a key driver in shaping future-ready leadership capability across the Qantas Group
- Join and support our experienced People team at Qantas
- 2 x 12 month fixed-term opportunities based in Mascot, Sydney
The aviation sector doesn’t stand still. Challenged to adapt and change, we’ve responded by reinventing our customer experience, broadening our business and achieving what was thought impossible. This allows us to stand strong as the Qantas Group.
As an
Organisational Development Manager, you’ll be responsible for leading the design and implementation of enterprise-wide solutions touching capability, leadership and career pathways. We have two roles on offer, one with a focus on capability and the other with a focus on leadership.
Organisational Development Manager - Capability
This role is responsible for the development and implementation of success profiles and career pathways that define what great looks like across Qantas. Working at the intersection of strategy and execution, you will shape how capability, leadership and career development are embedded across the organisation. Partnering closely with senior stakeholders, you will translate business priorities and future workforce needs — including those driven by AI and digital transformation — into practical, scalable development solutions. You will also play a key role in uplifting leadership capability, ensuring our leaders are equipped to navigate an increasingly complex, technology-enabled environment.
Organisational Development Manager – Leadership
This role is responsible for leading the design and execution of the Qantas Group People Strategy, with a focus on leadership and talent development across our People Leaders, Senior Leaders and Executives. You will be responsible for the development and seamless execution of flagship programs and targeted interventions that deliver on our high-performance culture. The role will build and maintain strong internal and external partnerships, stay across emerging trends, industry developments, and leading practice, and translate these into pragmatic and impactful organisational solutions. You will also have strong program management and facilitation expertise to design and deliver complex initiatives, ensuring clear governance, effective delivery, and measurable business outcomes.
These are highly visible and impactful roles, with the opportunity to influence how we build capability at scale and support Qantas’ long-term success.
What You’ll Bring To The Role
- 5–7 years’ experience in Organisational Development, with direct responsibility for designing and implementing leadership development programs, large-scale interventions, and capability solutions
- Proven experience developing capability frameworks, success profiles and/or career pathways
- Experience within top-tier consulting environments (e.g. strategy, organisational development or transformation consulting) is highly regarded
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and partner at senior levels
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into practical, scalable solutions
- A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working in complex, matrixed organisations
- Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences
- Digital and AI curiosity, with exposure to tools such as Copilot, Claude or similar
- Experience with Workday and/or capability tools such as Korn Ferry Profile Manager (desirable)
Why Qantas?
You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.
There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.
The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.
- We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
- We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including up to 18 weeks paid parental leave and additional purchased leave options.
- We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
- We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.
Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.
Applications close: Thursday, 18th of June 2026
