Head of Product Practice

Job description

Create your best future and join Westpac as Head of Product Practice What’s the Role: Westpac is seeking an enterprise leader to build and scale our Product Practice. This is a high ‑ impact role accountable for embedding customer ‑ first, outcome ‑ led product ownership across the Group, driving a step ‑ change in how product is defined, governed and delivered at pace. You will shape the future of product at Westpac—establishing standards, lifting capability, and enabling the safe, scalable use of data, analytics and AI to accelerate value delivery and decision-making. Key Responsibilities: - Define and lead the Product Practice strategy, establishing enterprise standards, frameworks, patterns and maturity measures - Deliver the Strategic Workforce Plan (SWP), including capability forecasting, talent pipelines, recruitment standards, and succession planning - Embed a data-led, customer-first culture, influencing executive forums, planning cycles and decision-making rhythms - Stand up and lead governance forums, ensuring alignment, prioritisation, and consistent decision-making across the enterprise - Drive capability uplift across Product Owners, including literacy, citizen develo...