General Manager, Central Marketing

Navitas is a leading global education provider that has helped generations of learners transform their lives through education. Working in our University Partnerships Australasia division you’ll be part of a team supporting Navitas’ portfolio of colleges, campuses, and offices. Employing 5,000 staff, we create life-changing opportunities for students to learn by delivering an extensive range of educational services to over 60,000 aspirational students across our global network each year.

So working at Navitas means you’ll become part of a dedicated community that extends beyond the classroom, encompassing a wide range of professions.

Our global footprint offers you the chance to connect with people from around the world.

This is a high-impact enterprise leadership role operating at the intersection of strategy, brand, performance, digital capability and commercial growth.

Reporting to the Group Chief Marketing Officer, you will play a critical role in shaping and embedding a connected, performance-led marketing capability across Navitas — aligning strategy, execution, insight and accountability across multiple divisions, markets and university partnerships.

You will work closely with the Group CMO to connect and coordinate divisional marketing leaders, executive stakeholders and university partners to strengthen marketing maturity, improve pipeline performance, uplift capability and build greater consistency across the organisation.

This role is suited to a commercially astute and strategically minded marketing leader who thrives in complex environments and is motivated by transformation, influence and meaningful impact.

You are an experienced senior marketing executive with the ability to operate strategically while driving execution and accountability.

You bring:

• Significant experience (10+ years) in senior marketing leadership roles within complex or matrixed organisations.
• Tertiary qualifications in Marketing, Management, Communications, or similar. 
• Strong capability across brand, digital, performance marketing, analytics and marketing technology.
• Experience aligning marketing to measurable commercial and pipeline outcomes.
• Proven success leading enterprise capability uplift or transformation initiatives.
• Outstanding stakeholder engagement and influencing capability at executive level.
• The ability to bring clarity, alignment and momentum across multiple teams and priorities.
• A collaborative leadership style with strong commercial acumen and strategic judgement.

Experience within higher education, university partnerships or large service-based organisations will be highly regarded.

What we can offer 

• We offer careers across our global operations.
• We recognise and reward.
• We understand the importance of showing appreciation.
• We care for you. We offer a range of employee benefits, support to help you be your best, and flexibility, to help us all thrive.
• Navitas is where work has meaning. Our impact is far-reaching – we create lasting legacies for students and communities.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for your development.

Diversity Equity and Inclusion 

• At Navitas we promote and embrace an inclusive and diverse workforce. We believe equality, flexibility, and diversity deliver a rich collaborative environment. We strive to ensure that all our staff – no matter where they are from or who they are – feel safe, supported, and given opportunities to thrive.
• We encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, of all ages and genders, First Nations and Indigenous peoples, and people of diverse community groups. 

How to Apply

Applications are assessed upon receipt.  To view other opportunities, please visit navitas.com/careers. 

All applicants must have full working rights within Australia to be considered. Successful candidates depending on their role may be, required to provide a Working with Children Check and undergo a Police Check.