Senior Manager, Digital Trust

• Set the Group's digital trust standards and guardrails
• Drive oversight of emerging risks and regulatory change
• Build capability and influence outcomes across the Group

About your team

The Digital Trust team is a high-calibre group of AI governance, privacy and data governance experts, responsible for setting the frameworks, standards and guardrails that enable responsible value creation across Wesfarmers Corporate Office, OneDigital, and for key Group initiatives.

Partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, Assurance and Cyber teams, the team helps manage digital and technology risks and support compliance across the Group.

About you

You bring extensive experience across at least one of AI governance, privacy or data governance, gained within a large, complex or decentralised organisation. Ideally, you offer depth across two or more of these areas and a credible working knowledge of the other.

You have demonstrated experience developing governance frameworks, standards, controls, metrics and reporting, and can translate complex regulatory requirements into practical minimum expectations and business processes.

Just as important is your judgement and ability to influence senior stakeholders. You are comfortable providing constructive challenge, working through ambiguity and balancing commercial outcomes with effective risk management.

What you’ll do

As Senior Manager, Digital Trust, you'll help shape how AI governance, privacy and data governance risks are managed across Wesfarmers, at a Group level.

Working across divisions and Corporate Office functions, you'll set the Group's standards and guardrails, provide oversight and constructive challenge on key risks and decisions, and build the capability, frameworks and practices that support effective risk management while preserving divisional accountability.

Operating within Wesfarmers' divisional autonomy model, you'll influence outcomes through expertise, insight and judgement rather than direct operational control.

You'll lead and support across:

• Standards and oversight: establish Group-wide frameworks, controls, reporting and minimum expectations across AI governance, privacy and data governance
• Risk visibility and challenge: provide reporting, insights and constructive challenge on key risks, divisional strategies and material decisions
• Regulatory and incident management: monitor emerging regulatory developments and act as the Group escalation point for significant incidents and breaches
• Capability and enablement: build Group-wide Digital Trust capability through practical tools, guidance and communities of practice
• Executive partnership: provide expert advice and insights to leadership, governance forums and Audit and Risk Committees

What you’ll need

• Digital trust expertise: extensive experience establishing governance frameworks and risk management approaches across AI governance, privacy and/or data governance within large, complex organisations.
• Governance and risk management: proven capability designing frameworks, standards, controls, metrics and reporting that support effective oversight
• Regulatory translation: ability to convert complex regulatory requirements into practical business processes, controls and guidance
• Strategic influence: confidence partnering with and constructively challenging senior stakeholders across diverse business environments
• Analytical judgement: strong ability to interpret data, identify emerging risks and provide clear, actionable recommendations
• Communication: exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the preparation of executive and Board-level materials
• Commercial pragmatism: ability to balance governance, risk and customer outcomes in a fast-paced and evolving environment
• Leadership: a collaborative approach with a track record of developing capability and influencing through expertise rather than authority
• Qualifications: tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline, with IAPP, DAMA, ISO or similar credentials well regarded

About Wesfarmers

As one of Australia’s largest listed companies, we’re proud of our longstanding contribution to Australians.

We continually reinvent ourselves and invest in the businesses we own and operate, including leading retailers like Bunnings, Kmart, Target, Officeworks and Priceline. We also have an online offering, including OnePass and the Group shared data asset.

Our work doesn’t stop there, we operate in the industrials sector which supplies the nation with chemicals, energy and fertilisers, and industrial and safety products. And we participate in an integrated lithium joint venture, including the operation of a mine and concentrator and the development of a refinery.

Join the team at Corporate Office which provides support and advice across the Wesfarmers Group

The Corporate Office provides corporate services and support to the autonomous businesses within the Wesfarmers Group, enabling the achievement of Group objectives.

It leads capital allocation and portfolio management for the Group and focuses on leveraging and enhancing the Group’s reputation to support attraction and retention of talent, securing investment opportunities and maintaining a low-cost capital.

To do this, we need great people, working together and role modelling our values and ways of working.

Our culture

We’re focused on results, but we’re a business that cares. Here we are less about titles and more about everyone playing a valuable role. We provide autonomy and space with freedom to operate, quickly learning from mistakes because we know they are part of the way forward. We’re curious, open minded, and collaborative. And although we’re thought leaders, we’re humble, and willing to share knowledge and learn from one another.

We know that diversity fosters greater innovation and better customer connection, so we strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment.

Next steps

If this sounds like your next career move, then combine your cover letter and resume into one document and click on the 'Apply' button by Friday, 18 September 2026. Please note that we may commence interviewing of candidates prior to this closing date.

For brief enquiries please contact Wesfarmers Corporate Talent Acquisition via ••••@wesfarmers.com.au

We’re hiring the best and the brightest talent. Let’s start to explore the possibilities of achieving great things together.

For more information, visit our website at https://www.wesfarmers.com.au