
General Manager – Customer Engagement
Datacom
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Melbourne • Australia
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About the role
- Owning the development and implementation of strategy for one or more Customers, in line with broader Datacom strategy.
- Collaborating with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
- Planning, personnel, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods.
- Involved in development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and strategy for our customers
- Directing and controlling the activities of own area of business, sometimes through managers within the team.
- Supporting Sales, Presales and Technical teams across Datacom ensuring an aligned go-to-market approach focused on growth and mutual benefit between Datacom and our customers.
- Managing the relationships with (and between) external agencies and suppliers, ensuring contracts and service levels are negotiated in line with strategic aims and financial constraints and ongoing service is in-line with agreed contracts.
- Making final decisions on administrative or operational matters, ensuring effective achievement of operational objectives.
- Ensuring budgets and schedules meet requirements.
- Interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management or attempting to influence senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the business.
Requirements
- Extensive experience working in a large, complex customer environment, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver services that meet SLA/KPI targets
- Accountable for designing and shaping services within the account, establishing architecture and service design disciplines to ensure operational readiness and compliance with all SLA, KPI, and performance targets
- Set governance and design standards to ensure services are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with our customer
- Provide senior-level technical guidance across the client’s environment, including risk assessment, and optimization opportunities
- Regularly engage with the client’s CTO to align the client’s technical roadmap with the customers strategic roadmap and offerings.
- Demonstrated experience in managing people and large cross functional teams
- Financial management including manage the P&Ls
- Working within Tier 2 service provider
- Masters of Business Administration
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
service designarchitecture designrisk assessmentfinancial managementP&L managementSLA complianceKPI managementoperational readinesscross-functional team coordinationgovernance standards
Soft Skills
strategic planningnegotiationinfluencingcollaborationleadershiprelationship managementdecision makingcommunicationbudget managementproblem solving
Certifications
Masters of Business Administration