Area Director

Busy Bees is a leading global early learning provider, offering high-quality education in nurturing, purpose‑built centres where educators are supported to grow, lead and make a real difference in children’s lives, with over 130 centres across Australia and around 3,000 employees.

We're seeking an experienced, commercially minded Area Director to lead and support a portfolio of early learning centres across South Australia. This is a senior leadership role with real autonomy and influence, responsible for driving outcomes across quality, compliance, people and performance while building strong, capable Centre Director teams.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach and support Centre Directors to deliver high‑quality, compliant and financially sustainable services.
• Drive operational excellence across occupancy, workforce stability, budgets and key performance metrics.
• Embed strong compliance, governance and child safety practices aligned with regulatory requirements.
• Partner closely with Education, People & Culture and central support teams to uplift capability and culture.
• Build strong community and stakeholder relationships to support enrolments, reputation and growth.

About You

You're a confident, commercially savvy leader who thrives on impact and influence.

You will bring:

• A genuine commitment to child safety, wellbeing and quality outcomes.
• Proven experience leading multi‑site operations in early learning, education, health or a regulated service environment.
• Strong commercial and analytical capability, including budgets, forecasting and occupancy management.
• The ability to coach leaders, manage performance and build engaged, high‑performing teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with a calm, confident leadership presence.

Why Join Busy Bees?

• Quarterly bonus opportunities that reward your impact.
• Company vehicle + fuel card for ease and flexibility.
• Senior leadership role with real influence and decision‑making authority.
• Strong executive support and collaborative leadership network.
• Opportunity to shape performance and growth across a key region.
• Competitive remuneration aligned to senior leadership expectations.
• A values‑driven organisation that genuinely prioritises quality, safety and people.

Employment is conditional on satisfactory, rigorous pre‑employment checks (including WWCC, ID, Qualifications, Gecko Training, Work Rights & References) and child safety training, reflecting our strong commitment to safeguarding, equity, diversity and inclusion.

We are proud to be a child safe organisation, putting child safety at the heart of everything we do through our Triple Layer Child Safety Framework: trusted, trained and caring people, safe, supervised and supportive environments, and clear, consistent and transparent processes.

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