Integrated Planning Principal

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Water Corporation’s Integrated Planning Principal is a full-time onsite role in Leederville, WA within the Strategy and Transformation group, leading enterprise planning to unify strategy, asset, operations and enabling functions into a single, decision-ready framework and deliver insights to executives. The ideal candidate will bring a degree or equivalent, deep enterprise-planning experience, the ability to influence senior leaders, strong analytical synthesis, governance and operating-model design, and a proven track record across multiple planning domains. To apply, tailor your cover letter and resume to show planning frameworks, sequencing, trade-offs, and measurable value, provide concise examples, and prepare for pre-employment checks. Emphasize collaboration, flexibility, and continuous improvement. Applications close 26 June 2026.

We’re entering an exciting new chapter at Water Corporation as we continue to grow our Strategy and Transformation Group. It represents a step forward in how we plan and deliver services – strengthening our ability to align today’s decisions with the needs of our future business, to benefit our customers and communities, and help Western Australia thrive.

As part of this expansion, we’re increasing our capability and recruiting for multiple new positions. This is a rare opportunity to join us at a pivotal moment and help turn strategy into action - setting clear priorities, coordinated action, and driving real change across the business. 

We’re seeking talented people to support this strategic shift by bringing long-term direction, enterprise planning, operating model design, organisational change management and portfolio management into one connected, enterprise-wide system focused on delivering our Corporate Plan priorities. If you’re motivated by purposeful work, transformation and making a genuine impact across the state, there’s never been a better time to join us.

About the role: 

We are seeking a highly experienced integrated planning professional with strong strategic capability to join the Corporate Strategy and Integrated Planning team as Principal – Integrated Planning. 

This role is a pivotal enterprise role responsible for delivering and orchestrating integrated planning across Water Corporation, bringing together strategy, risk, investment, asset and scheme performance, optimising delivery and planning layers into a single, coherent system connecting customer, operations and delivery. You will operate independently across the enterprise -bringing together complex inputs, assessing feasibility and sequencing, and providing decision-ready insights and informed input across planning domains to Executives and senior leaders. This is a unique opportunity to influence how the organisation plans, prioritises and delivers long-term value. 

Real benefits that matter

• Real flexibility with options to work from home or negotiate flexible work hours
• An additional 2 well-being days each year
• Access to long service leave pro rata after 3 years of service
• Generous co-contribution superannuation scheme, which offers up to 16%. This includes an 12% standard employer contribution, plus an additional 2% employer co-contribution that matches your own 2% contribution
• Purchase additional leave of up to 12 weeks or work 4 years at a reduced salary and take the fifth year off as paid leave

Discover more benefits we offer to support the unique and individual ways our employees live.

What the role will involve: 

In this role, you will: 

Lead enterprise integrated planning

• Drive the enterprise-wide integrated planning process, bringing together requirements and priorities from asset management, operations and maintenance, information technology, finance and corporate services across short, medium and long-term planning horizons to create a single view of the Corporation’s future plans
• Maintain enterprise-wide planning principles, standards and artefacts 
• Steward the Integrated Planning Framework, including governance, methodologies and planning architecture 
• Lead significant uplift in planning maturity, practices and tools across the organisation 
• Ensure enterprise planning meets regulatory obligations and external commitments where relevant 

Integrate and assess enterprise plans 

• Assess enterprise plans for feasibility, sequencing, dependencies and constraints 
• Apply enterprise business blueprints to assess alignment with the future-state operating model 
• Identify trade-offs, optimisation opportunities, risks and service impacts across the asset lifecycle 
• Surface and work through enterprise-level tensions, gaps and risks across planning domains to inform decision making 
• Support and orchestrate rolling planning cycles across senior leadership teams, engaging directly with specialist planners to understand and manage assumptions, dependencies and trade-offs across plans 

Enable executive decision-making 

• Translate complex planning outputs into clear, decision-ready insights 
• Provide independent, evidence-based input to ensure plans are aligned and consistent across assumptions, sequencing and resourcing 
• Enable confident, prioritised decisions grounded in feasible enterprise-wide plans  

Key skills and experience: 

You are an enterprise-level thinker with deep experience in integrated planning and the confidence to influence at senior levels. 

You’ll bring: 

• Degree qualification in business, science, engineering or a related discipline, or extensive comparable professional experience 
• Substantial experience in enterprise or integrated planning environments, including the design, stewardship or operation of integrated planning frameworks and planning cycles 
• Substantial experience integrating plans across strategy, investment, assets, operations and enabling functions in complex enterprise environments 
• Experience working across multiple planning domains (e.g. asset, operational, investment or strategic planning) in regulated or asset intensive complex environments 
• Proven ability to assess feasibility and navigate constraints across complex enterprise systems 
• Considerable experience supporting Executive and senior leader planning and integration decisions through structured analysis, insight and informed input 

 You’ll also demonstrate: 

• Deep understanding of integrated planning as an enterprise discipline and system 
• Strong analytical capability and ability to synthesise complex information into clear insights 
• High commercial acumen and ability to balance strategy, constraints and delivery capacity 
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior stakeholders in complex environments 
• Independence, sound judgement and confidence operating in complex environments 
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, particularly in high-stakes discussions 
• Willingness to challenge the status quo with a continuous improvement mindset 

Exposure to enterprise architecture, business blueprints or policy environments, will be highly regarded. 

Apply: If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your ability to meet the requirements of the role.

As part of the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.

Applications close Friday 26th June 2026

Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace

Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community. 

We encourage applications from every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, youth, LGBTQIA+ folks and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. 

We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment to enable people with disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment. 

Applicants with disability who require adjustments during the recruitment process including an alternative format of the application form, can contact a Recruitment Officer at [email protected] or 08 9420 2000.  

To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website