Spares Planning Manager

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Optus is more than just a telco – we’re the team of passionate and supportive people defining the future of service excellence, one extraordinary customer experience at a time. Every day our team of 6,000+ passionate people embrace a ‘yes’ mindset, ensuring Australians enjoy closer friendships, stronger teams, deeper partnerships, and bigger breakthroughs. Here, you’ll find a community that flourishes by challenging themselves and changing the game. A place where you can build strong networks and long-lasting relationships, powered by lively collaboration, unwavering support, high flexibility, and a healthy dose of daily optimism.

We're searching for a

Spares Planning Manager

to lead the end-to-end spare parts planning strategy that supports our national network. If you thrive on solving complex supply challenges, collaborating across technical and vendor teams, and driving smart, data-led inventory decisions—this is your opportunity to make real impact.

In this pivotal role, you’ll bring together strategy, analytics, and operational leadership to make sure the right parts are in the right place at the right time—keeping our customers connected when it matters most.

The day to day:
Lead and carry out the strategic direction for spare parts planning across Optus’ national network

Enhance and automate planning, forecasting, and sparing processes for greater accuracy and efficiency

Collaborate with key engineering, operations, assurance, and vendor teams to align on network support needs

Analyse performance data to identify risk, optimise inventory levels, and improve repair/return cycles

Drive operational excellence by managing key KPIs—fault fix times, MTBF, failure rates, and supplier performance

Lead the Spares Planning team and contribute to a culture of high performance and continuous improvement

What you’ll bring:
Critical thinking with a deep understanding of the balance between cost, risk, and service availability.

Ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders and vendors across multiple functions

Experience turning data into action and complexity into clarity

Substantial experience in spare parts' planning, inventory management, or telecom engineering

Strong knowledge of SAP ECC or S/4HANA, with forecasting and planning expertise

Proficiency in Excel and Power BI for data analysis and visualisation

Experience managing vendor performance and cross-functional planning forums

A deep understanding of warehouse, RMA, and repair cycle operations

Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and team leadership capabilities

Perks we love at Optus

3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit!

Inclusive paid parental leave, up to 16 weeks for the primary care giver

All Optus employees have access to resources, webinars and support via the ‘Parents at Work portal’

Be responsible for your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue.

Connect at work through our employee-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans, Yarn Network, Wellbeing Network and Young Professionals.

Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office (Sydney Campus)

Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon!

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At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity.