Executive Director Network Planning

You're ready to step into a pivotal role within our Planning, Integration and Passenger division, where the voice of the customer drives every decision. 

Join a team that’s not just planning for tomorrow, but actively building it, through bold thinking, integrated solutions, and a commitment to delivering real, lasting impact for people and places across the state.

In this role you’ll

• Report to the Chief Transport Planner and play a key role in the newly formed Transport Planning Branch Leadership Team, shaping the future of NSW’s transport system.
• Oversee a team of people leaders and a workforce of around 50, fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion, and customer-focused outcomes.
• Technical leadership as well as strategic guidance to be a key lead in planning NSW’s transport network, across road, public transport, freight, and active transport, ensuring alignment with land use and community needs.
• Deliver future focused planning, by developing mode-specific and network-wide plans, including for freight corridors, active transport, and state road infrastructure.
• Embed data-driven decision making, by defining service outcome targets and performance frameworks using analytics to guide investment and planning priorities.
• Oversee planning for future transport corridors and provide strategic options for public transport, motorways, and road freight infrastructure.
• Collaborate across government, industry, and communities to align planning with emerging mobility trends, championing resilience, accessibility, and equity across the network.

This is an ongoing Transport Senior Service Executive (2A) role. Please see the role description and Information Pack for more information

About you

You’re a strategic, customer-focused executive leader, with extensive experience in transport planning and a strong track record of leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex, future-ready network strategies. 

With tertiary qualifications and experience influencing in a matrix environment, you bring deep expertise in program and stakeholder management, navigating government processes with confidence. You excel in politically and commercially sensitive environments, delivering innovative, customer-centric solutions. 

You bring specialist knowledge in network, service, mode, and product planning, informing early-stage infrastructure decisions including pre-Gate 0 and Gate 0 activities. Your collaborative leadership and global perspective on best practices make you a trusted, influential leader in shaping NSW’s transport future.

Your leadership approach is defined by integrity and inclusivity. You don’t just respond to challenges, you anticipate them and drive network innovation that puts people, performance and connectivity at the heart.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day. 

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team’s home base location with remote days. 

What are you waiting for…? Connect with us.  Apply now!

Applications close: 11:59 pm Wednesday 25th June 2025.

For more information about this role, please contact EFFIE.ROGARIS@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal people or Supporting people with disability for more info or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us. 

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