Regional Manager

About the Role: 

As Dairy Australia’s Regional Manager for Tasmania, you’ll lead a dedicated team, fostering a culture of coaching, mentorship, and accountability to deliver high-value services to our dairy farming community. 

You’ll take ownership of regional planning, budgeting, and service delivery, ensuring our work aligns with the strategic priorities Dairy Australia, DairyTas RDP and the needs of local farmers. As the Regional Manager you’ll work with the team and stakeholders to shape extension and engagement initiatives that make a real difference on the ground in Tasmania. 

 A vital part of this role is Farm Engagement, particularly with Large Supplier businesses. You'll act as a trusted point of contact, developing tailored account plans and facilitating a team-based approach to ensure farm businesses connect with the right services, industry networks, and expertise. By understanding their long-term goals, you’ll help them navigate challenges, maximise opportunities, and drive on-farm success. 

Collaboration is key—you’ll build strong relationships within your team, across Dairy Australia, and throughout the broader dairy industry. By connecting with farmers, service providers, researchers, and regional authorities, you’ll help drive innovation, deliver impactful programs, and support the long-term success of Tasmania’s dairy sector. 

This role is an opportunity to lead with purpose, shape the future of Dairy Australia’s services in Tasmania, and make a tangible impact on the industry.  

Our ideal candidate: 

Ideally you will be degree qualified in agriculture, business/commerce or a related field, or have a significant agriculture background. You can demonstrate a varied skillset with a passion for nurturing high performing teams and building strong stakeholder engagement. Your honed experience in managing reporting requirements and evaluation of success will support our team in achieving objectives. 

Your experience in communicating and presenting to varied audiences will support you in developing networks and engaging with a broad range of stakeholders. You will also bring strong skills in report preparation and process improvement to ensure alignment with our values and efficiency in our ways of working. 

Although this is a permanent full-time position, we will consider 0.8 FTE for the right candidate.

About Dairy Australia: 

Dairy Australia’s role is to provide services that benefit and advance dairy farm businesses and the industry. These services deliver value by enhancing farm business management, supporting farm employment needs, driving herd and feed innovation, managing climate and environment, promoting Australian dairy and commitment to sustainability, supporting policy development, growing international markets and responding to critical issues and events such as floods and bushfires. 

 Our Vision and Values: 

At Dairy Australia, our vision is simple, to be leaders in shaping a profitable and sustainable dairy industry. Our passionate and talented people share this vision and make an impact each day through their commitment to our values of: 

• Farmer First - Farmer needs guide our purpose 
• One Team - We work together to achieve great things 
• Innovative Thinking - We embrace new ideas and learning as we go 
• Decisive Action - We make informed decisions and move quickly to implement 

About your work life with us: 

We aim to provide benefits that promote the overall wellbeing of our employees. In joining our team, you will be rewarded with: 

• Flexible working environment – work from our Burnie office and your home office, on the road visiting stakeholders, as well as connecting with your colleagues and stakeholders virtually 
• Being a key member in our supportive and high performing team of experts in their field 
• A caring and innovative culture -we are open to each other’s ideas, we love to innovate, we have integrity and are driven to find the best solutions for our employees and stakeholders 
• Fully maintained vehicle 

Next steps: 

We believe in equality. We treat everyone with fairness, consideration and respect and welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds. 

If your motivations and skills set aligns to what you’ve read, please “Apply Now” 

Please note as part of the recruitment process of Dairy Australia, you may be required to undergo a National Police Check and provide evidence of your Right to Work in Australia.