General Manager Austral Allergy

GENERAL MANAGER – AUSTRAL ALLERGY
Healthcare Start-Up | National Growth & Demerger

Canberra, Melbourne or Adelaide based | National travel

Build and scale Australia’s next national allergy care network.

Austral Allergy is a clinician-led healthcare start-up established to make timely, evidence-based and high-quality allergy care accessible to more Australians.

We currently operate two clinics—Canberra Allergy and Adelaide Allergy—and have an ambitious plan to develop a national network of 15+ clinics over the next five years.

With the clinical model established and national expansion underway with South East Melbourne and Ballina as our next practices on the roadmap, we are seeking an accomplished General Manager to build the business, lead its transition to standalone operations and turn its growth strategy into operating reality.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Reporting directly to the CEO and Founder, Dr Chris McCue, the General Manager will hold single-point accountability for executing the Austral Allergy business plan.

The CEO will continue to set strategy and lead the clinical, shareholder and key external relationships. The General Manager will run the company day to day—leading its operating performance, expansion program, workforce growth, financial management and corporate capability.

This is not a role for someone who wants to inherit a finished operating model.

It is an opportunity for a commercially strong and hands-on executive who enjoys building systems, solving problems, making decisions and creating the organisational capability required to scale.

You will have meaningful decision-making authority, direct exposure to the Board and the opportunity to shape a nationally significant healthcare business from an early stage.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

Business performance

• Full accountability for network operating performance, P&L, cash flow and delivery against the approved business plan

• Performance of each clinic, supported by consistent KPIs, financial reporting and corrective action

• Clear and timely monthly operating, financial and risk reporting to the Board

• Disciplined management of costs, working capital and investment during the growth phase

National growth

• Delivery of the multi-site clinic opening program on time, on budget and to the agreed operating model

• Market assessment, business cases, property negotiations and fit-out oversight

• Development of a scalable operating platform that maintains clinical quality and patient experience as the network grows

• Capturing and applying lessons from each clinic opening to strengthen future implementation

Clinical workforce and training

• Delivery of the doctor workforce plan across existing and new locations

• Attraction, onboarding and retention of doctors and other critical team members

• Alignment of recruitment growth with available training, supervision and assessment capacity

• Development of a sustainable clinical workforce pipeline to support national expansion

Financial and commercial management

• Active management of P&L, cash flow, working capital, capital expenditure and funding requirements

• Oversight of billing performance, clinician utilisation, pricing and operational yield

• Management of grants, tenders, commercial contracts and external service providers

• Financial discipline to ensure the business grows at a sustainable and appropriately sequenced pace

Quality and governance

• Partnering with Clinical Director to ensure clinical governance is appropriately resourced and operationalised

• Supporting consistent, credentialing, incident management, cold-chain, quality and safety systems across every clinic

• Ensuring material clinical, operational and corporate risks are identified, mitigated and escalated appropriately

• Building the reporting, systems and governance expected of a mature national healthcare organisation

People and leadership

• Building and leading a capable, accountable and commercially focused management team

• Developing a strong pipeline of Practice Managers and operational leaders

• Creating a performance culture that balances pace, accountability, clinical quality and patient care

• Establishing the organisational structure and capability required at each stage of growth

A DEFINING 2026 PRIORITY: TRANSITION

One of the General Manager’s first and most important priorities will be leading Austral Allergy’s transition away from a larger parent company over the remaining months of 2026.

You will establish the independent corporate and operating capability Austral Allergy needs for its next stage of growth, including:

• Developing and executing the end-to-end transition plan

• Establishing standalone finance, payroll, HR, IT, legal, insurance, property and governance arrangements

• Determining which capabilities should be built internally and which should be commercially outsourced

• Protecting business continuity, clinical operations, payroll, financial reporting and organisational records throughout the transition

• Delivering the transition within the approved corporate services budget

• Providing clear progress, risk and decision reporting to the CEO and Board

The successful candidate will combine strong project and change leadership with the commercial judgement required to build a fit-for-purpose corporate platform without overbuilding ahead of revenue.

ABOUT YOU

You are an experienced executive who can move comfortably between strategy, operations, financial performance and hands-on delivery.

You understand that leadership in a start-up and scale-up environment means making decisions with imperfect information, managing competing priorities and personally stepping into critical work when required.

You will bring:

• Strong general management experience in a multi-site healthcare, medical or similarly regulated service organisation

• Full P&L accountability within an organisation of approximately $10 million or greater revenue

• Demonstrated delivery of new site openings, business expansion or comparable growth programs

• Experience leading a transition, corporate separation, business stand-up, integration or major operating-model transformation

• Strong command of P&L, cash flow, working capital, capital expenditure, funding and reforecasting

• Demonstrated success attracting, contracting and retaining doctors or another scarce professional workforce

• Experience building, leading and holding accountable a management team

• Sound understanding of governance, accreditation and healthcare risk

• The ability to communicate with Boards and shareholders clearly, directly and without spin

• Strong judgement developed through leading growth or transformation under financial and operational constraints

• A willingness to remain close to execution while developing the systems and team needed to scale

Experience in private healthcare, outpatient services, medical training, institutional investment, healthcare tenders will be highly regarded.

WHY JOIN AUSTRAL ALLERGY?

This is a rare opportunity to take a clinician-led healthcare start-up with two operating clinics and build it into a national organisation.

You will have:

• Genuine authority to run and shape the business

• Direct access to the CEO, clinical leaders, Board and shareholders

• An established clinical model and a clear national expansion strategy

• The opportunity to build the systems, team, capability and culture required for scale

• A role with measurable impact on access to specialist allergy care

• A base salary of $200,000 plus superannuation

• A short-term incentive opportunity of up to $60,000 per annum, subject to the applicable incentive plan

• The opportunity to receive options to purchase equity and invest in the business you grow

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your CV and a covering letter outlining how you meet the criteria.

If you are a commercially disciplined, hands-on operator who wants to build and scale a purpose-led national healthcare business, we would welcome your application.