Area Manager SA

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.

Bee Safe: Child safety is at the heart of everything we do and is embedded in our people, places and processes. Help us give every child the Best Start in Life.

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.

Why Join Busy Bees?

• Quarterly bonus opportunities designed to recognise and reward the real impact you make as a leader.

• A company vehicle, plus a fuel card for added convenience and ease on the road.

• A senior leadership role with real influence and autonomy.

• A values-aligned organisation that prioritises quality, safety and people.

• A supportive executive and peer leadership network.

• The opportunity to shape centre performance and leadership capability across a growing region.

• Competitive remuneration and flexibility aligned to senior leadership expectations.

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

• 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.

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.

Why Work for Busy Bees?
If you’re passionate about early learning, Busy Bees is the place to be. Although we are part of a global organisation, our company was founded by three families looking for better, more enriching childcare. Three decades later, we still keep the same values at heart.

We know that we couldn’t do what we do without the important people in our teams. We invest in our people and work with them to build career pathways that inspire.