Strategy and Business Operations Manager
Carma
Operations
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Mar 13, 2025
At Carma, we’re more than just a car company, we’re on a mission to shake up the Australian automotive industry! As a digital pre-owned car dealership, we’re turning the car buying and selling experience into a hassle-free, seamless journey that customers can truly enjoy. With our diverse and collaborative team managing everything from engineering to marketing and buying to reconditioning in-house, we’re powered by the best people and we’d love for you to come along for the ride.
Love tackling big challenges and making an impact? As our Strategy & Business Operations Manager, you’ll work closely with the Leadership Team to solve high-impact strategic, commercial, and operational problems across every part of Carma—from buying, reconditioning and wholesale to sales, customer experience and expansion. You’ll drive critical projects, help build operational capabilities, improve processes, and turn insights into action, helping Carma scale and succeed in a fast-paced environment. If you're analytical, strategic, operational, and love making things happen, this is the role for you!
- Department
- Strategy & Business Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Carma HQ, Sydney
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Ricky Isserow
What you'll be doing:
- Work closely with leadership to identify opportunities, set priorities, and solve high-impact problems that drive business success.
- Lead key strategic and operational projects and initiatives across the business.
- Build models and dashboards, analyze data, and track key metrics to inform smarter decision-making.
- Partner with key business functions to develop operational capabilities and improve processes, driving efficiency and scalability across the business.
- Collaborate with Product & Tech teams to develop systems, tools and digital solutions that enhance operations and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
- Support executive decision-making with clear reports, dashboards, and insights.
Okay, let's talk about you:
- You have at least 5 years experience in strategic and operational projects, with a background in management consulting, investment banking or similar
- Experience within a high growth business or start up with be beneficial!
- You have a strategic mindset with strong commercial acumen, able to break down complex problems, build structured solutions, and drive execution.
- You are analytical and data driven when it comes to decision making, and experienced analysing trends, building models, and turning insights into action
- You have great communications skills and stakeholder management, with the ability to influence and align teams.
- A proactive, problem-solving attitude, able to juggle multiple projects and adapt quickly in a fast-moving environment.
Please note, this position is based in Alexandria Sydney in our Head Office.
What's in it for you?
- Be a part of a high performing team, where curiosity, learning and tackling high-impact challenges are just another day at the office.
- Enjoy our open-plan office space, complete with fresh coffee, a choice of snacks and Friday beers to keep you supercharged.
- We wouldn’t be a car business if we didn’t give you some $$ off our Carma cars, parts and NRMA cover.
At Carma, we’re all about fostering an amazing culture, where you can bring your best self to work! We value collaboration, innovation and having a laugh at work. Plus, we’re committed to diversity, inclusion and safe work practices, so no matter your background or experience (or car brand of choice!) we’d love to hear from you. Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments during the interview process.
About Carma
Who we are
Carma was founded in 2021 with a bold vision to reinvent Australia’s pre-owned car experience for the better. The idea attracted multi-million dollar backing from investors, and Carma has grown exponentially ever since. We’ve sold thousands of cars and delighted countless customers, who love our innovative approach! In a short time, we’ve come a long way, named as one of the AFR’s Most Innovative companies, recognised in a number of prestigious awards – and the journey has only just begun.
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