• A unique career-defining opportunity to join and lead one of Melbourne’s most established, innovative and award-winning AU/NZ agencies
• Drive integrated earned-first communications including social and content
• Innovate and define our PR Agency of the Future strategy across corporate and consumer comms
• Collaborate on the Trans-tasman Leadership Team working with the most talked about local and global brands
• Join a culture that embraces growth and diversity and with ambition that is Limited by Nothing

LOCATION: Melbourne

We are uniquely Thrive helping our people, brands and community to do just that.  We use the power of communications to help our people, partners and community to grow and be successful.

Born and bred in Melbourne, and with offices across AU & NZ, Thrive is a public relations industry powerhouse and for the first time in the company’s 23-year history, we are recruiting externally for a Business Director to lead our Melbourne team.

This is not your everyday opportunity. This is a chance to work directly with Thrive’s Executive and learn why we are Mumbrella PR Agency of the Year and B&T PR Agency of the Year 2022 and how we came to be awarded the Dan Wieden Titanium Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which celebrates game-changing creativity, for our work with The Monkeys for Tuvalu, ‘The First Digital Nation’.

This role is a career-defining opportunity to lead our Melbourne location as 2IC to the Executive Director, Melbourne. You will be supported by 25+ consultants as you lead client and team growth and retention while driving new business with the support of national specialist squads.  You will partner with our local and global corporate and consumer clients to devise their communications strategies while leaning into national resources to deliver creative and digital integration impacting our clients’ business goals.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated integrated comms Business Director who is well connected in Victoria with business connections and with the media and who can create new opportunities that take our agency to new heights. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in the PR industry, across both corporate and consumer PR and have solid social media and creative content experience. The person must demonstrate strategic thinking, business acumen and have strong leadership skills with proven capability to grow a client portfolio.

This role will help drive operational process excellence, ensuring key stages of projects are executed efficiently and within budget, with a strong commercial mindset, managing financial forecasting, profitability and team resourcing.

• Work across a diverse and high-profile  corporate and consumer client portfolio
• Develop and implement strategic plans to drive business growth and achieve financial
• Manage and develop client relationships to deliver client growth
• Identify new market opportunities and trends to stay ahead in the local PR landscape
• Play an active role in lead generation and business development efforts and the conversion of clients
• Devise and oversee the implementation of first-class strategies with their senior reports for clients
• Provide effective leadership to a talented team of PR and social professionals, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Mentor and develop team members, encouraging continuous learning and professional growth
• Oversight of the Melbourne office administration function.

About You

• Australian visa holder - will consider visa sponsorship for a stellar candidate
• Tertiary qualified 12+ years of agency experience in the PR industry
• Proven experience in a senior leadership role within a PR agency delivering integrated earned-first campaigns for global brands
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking
• Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated success in client relationship management and business development
• Ability to inspire and lead a team to achieve exceptional results
• Delivery of best practice multichannel storytelling with exceptional writing skills
• Experience in B2B and B2C storytelling
• Experience delivering in a fast-paced environment and displaying logical thinking, forward planning, and the ability to manage up and down
• An established network of relationships with media, influencers, suppliers and key stakeholders
• Excellent presentation skills
• Team time management and budget experience
• Technology skills (MAC & Google Drive savvy)
• Media measurement/evaluation skills

This is Thrive.

Culture is everything. It's a reason why we have a 100% return rate by working parents, have had consistent leadership for more than two decades, and continue to welcome Thrive 'boomerangs' back to the agency. . Our team is made up of in-house media, creative and digital specialists who work across five locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Auckland delivering strategic communications services for brands.

 Thrive values work-life integration including hybrid flexible working (currently Mondays and Fridays work-from-home) and delivers many benefits from wellbeing days and initiatives through to early knock-off Fridays. Thrive fosters & supports a work environment that is inclusive as well as diverse, where people can, and are encouraged to, be themselves. Every idea and perspective is welcomed and valued so that our service offering reflects our approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion both internally and externally.

Ready to make waves with us locally and globally?

Visit us here for more information - www.thrivepr.com.au.

If you value accountability, curiosity, integrity, collaboration and are passionate about what you do then our values are aligned. Please apply via LinkedIn or email a cover letter and resume to: [email protected].

All contact with Thrive will be treated confidentially. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Are you looking at building a career within the Print Industry for a global company with a great culture that will invest in your ongoing training and development?

Konica Minolta is innovative, robust and continually evolving. From printing, scanning and copying to cloud storage, 3D and robotics, our award-winning products and solutions help companies to transform and move information faster. Our people make this possible. We strive to create and maintain an inclusive workforce as diverse and capable as our class-leading solutions. We actively encourage women and those from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles.

About the role

We are currently looking to fill a Field Service Engineer position to join our Melbourne branch. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation and support of Colour and B&W print equipment and ancillary products with associated software & services solutions.

As a member of the Victoria Service Team, you will ensure customer satisfaction through on site corrective and preventative maintenance on customer equipment reporting to the VIC Service Delivery Manager.

Previous experience in the print industry, although desirable, is not essential for the right candidate looking to start their career in a hands-on technical role with fantastic learning and development opportunities.

Key Requirements

To be qualified for this position, ideally your background and skills will comprise of the following:

• Your strong technical aptitude, troubleshooting skills and professional approach, as well as a positive attitude in dealing with customers, are essential attributes for this role.

• A keen desire to learn and apply new skills will be encouraged in the Konica Minolta environment that fosters continuous employee development.

• Applicants must possess a strong mechanical / electrical aptitude, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• A proven track record of excellent customer service, ensuring to go above and beyond

Essential requirements for this role:

• Demonstrated experience a similar role and/or network, IT and technical knowledge/understanding

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong customer service skills

• Excellent organisation and time management skills

• Driver’s License, Working with Children Check and Police Check will be required

Why Konica Minolta?

In this role you will be provided with a fully maintained company vehicle, phone and laptop.

You will enjoy a collaborative team culture where you will be supported and empowered to contribute your ideas and identify opportunities to develop your team and yourself. We are dedicated to the values of diversity and inclusion and have a firm commitment to ethical practices and corporate responsibility.

Konica Minolta is committed to providing a working environment that is inclusive and fair to both women and men. Progressive policies such as our domestic violence policy; paid parental leave and flexible workplace policies enable our people to balance work and life responsibilities. We have been thrilled to receive a citation from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality 5 years in a row.

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to providing equal opportunities and actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for our roles, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or disability.

If you are require any adjustments/assistance during the recruitment process please reach out to [email protected]

Our Purpose

Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

About The Role

This is an excellent opportunity not to be missed! You will be joining a fantastic Software Asset Management team in our extensive Service Operations business. The SAM team support each other and work collaboratively across a range of managed and project services. This is a chance to make your mark in a business with strong people and customer focus.

This role is preferably located in Canberra, although remote work is supported, and is ideal for someone who is experienced in Software Asset Management and Software Licensing and keen to develop a career with loads variety and opportunity.

If you already have Baseline Security Clearance this will be advantageous, it is required.

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for a proactive, independent, enthusiastic team member who’s interested in being part of a larger group delivering a high quality and complex service to our customers. You’ll bring expertise developed over 3+ years in a Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management, or Licensing Sales, as you will be supporting the delivery of the Software Asset Management (SAM) service for a large Federal Government account.

Your ability to work with other members of the client management team to develop and deliver quality solutions for our customer is critical to the success of our service.

As part of the role you will provide quality customer service enhancements in optimising the SAM Service, planning the service implementation, championing the delivery of the service and processes, and verification and continued maintenance of the SAM Service.

What You’ll Do

In this role you will work collaboratively with other Software Asset Management (SAM) team members, Software Licensing Consultants, and Service Delivery Managers. Essentially, the Software Asset Specialist will:

• Manage the relationship with key Customer stakeholders and Datacom Managed Services.
• Act as SAM Subject Matter Expert for the account.
• Ensure effective and smooth delivery of our customer’s SAM services.
• Contribute to the achievement of the outcomes of the contract.
• Delivery and support the Business Development Process.
• Ensure that SAM plans, processes and procedures are delivered incorporating good practise methodologies, accurately documented, successfully implemented, appropriately communicated to customer’s stakeholders, and provide continuous SAM Improvement with our services for our customers.
• You are a key contributor to the management of the Software Asset Lifecycle for our customer. This includes identifying the software inventory, capturing license entitlements, performing ongoing software compliance checks, and remediation as appropriate.
• Manage, maintain, and facilitate the renewal of software maintenance by validating the renewal details to ensure the information is correct and valid and also update the Software Asset Register/Technology with the new licensing details.
• Facilitate software procurement for the account including the tasks of retrieving quotes from software vendors or Datacom’s internal procurement team, approval from the business and facilitating the procurement and associated software lifecycle tasks.
• Review current software Terms and Conditions, License Agreements, and License Contracts to ensure that the account is not exposed to any breaches or risks.
• Provide quality customer service through adherence to Datacom’s Asset Management service delivery methodology and processes.
• Experience in using SAM technologies and their capabilities, in particular, Flexera FlexNet Manager Suite and/or Snow License Manager. You will be responsible for monitoring the health of the SAM technology and will proactively work with technical teams to ensure the technology is maintained to acceptable standards.
• Experience with ITSM tools like Cherwell or Service Now will be advantageous.
• Interpret data outputs from the SAM technologies and other tools to provide accurate and timely reporting.
• Be able to follow documented procedures to support the deliver of consistent services.
• Perform license reclamation activity and record cost avoidance.
• Propose remediation and optimisation activities that may result in reduced compliance risk and/or financial savings and cost avoidance.
• Liaise with service management, and customer teams to define, optimise, and develop SAM standards, processes, procedures, plans and controls to ensure appropriate service asset information is recorded and maintained.
• Work collaboratively with a larger SAM team in delivering SAM Services as well as autonomously within your dedicated account.

You must hold Australian Citizenship as a Baseline Security Clearance is required, and it will be advantageous if you already have one.

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is ones of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. As an ANZ company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

At Datacom you'll be recognised and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide stability, career opportunity and a collegial, agile, flat-structured environment that empowers people and promotes autonomy. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help ANZ’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

If you would like to know more and this sounds like you. Please apply online today!

Our Purpose

Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

About the Opportunity

Datacom has an excellent career opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Software Asset Management (SAM) Consultant not to be missed!

You will be joining an Award-winning SAM team within our extensive Australian Service Operations business.

As a Consulting member of the SAM team, you will be supported and valued, working collaboratively across a range of SAM consulting projects and services. This is your chance to bring your positive attitude and to make your mark in a business by joining this rapidly growing team of skilled colleagues who have a broad spectrum of SAM and licensing expertise, with a laser focus on customer outcomes.

This role does not involve software licensing sales targets.

This role has flexible work arrangements and is ideal for someone who is experienced in Software Asset Management and looking for a new opportunity, is keen for a challenge, and keen to develop a career with loads of variety.

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for a proactive, highly skilled, and enthusiastic team member who’s interested in being part of a larger group delivering high-quality SAM solutions to our customers.

You’ll bring expertise developed over 5+ years in a Software Asset Management role as you will be undertaking a range of interesting activities relating to software licensing, audit, and compliance management on behalf of our customers. You will also be supporting the delivery of the Software Asset Management (SAM) managed services and projects for multiple customers from Commercial and Government industries.

You will have advanced critical thinking skills, an ability to interpret and apply logical decision making to a variety of data, and you must be able to deliver your analysis, findings, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

Your ability to work with other members of the SAM and customer management team to develop and deliver quality solutions for our customer is critical to the success of our SAM Consulting and Managed services.

This role can be based out of any Datacom office in Australia. Australian Citizenship is essential for Federal Government security clearance requirements. Preferably, you'll be a holder of either a current or lapsed Baseline clearance or higher.

What You’ll Do

In this role you will work collaboratively with other Software Asset Management (SAM) team members, Software Licensing Consultants, and Customer account teams. Essentially, the Software Asset Management Consultant will:

• Act as Consulting SAM Subject Matter Expert for our customers.
• Deliver SAM Consulting services relevant to today’s changing technology landscape and market demands.
• Deliver Compliance Reviews (Effective Licensing Position) for Customers.
• Review current software licensing Terms and Conditions, License Agreements, and License Contracts to identify any breaches or risks for our customers.
• Apply knowledge of licensing rules and use rights within SAM Consulting Services.
• Analyse, document, and present licensing modelling recommendations.
• Identify license reclamation opportunities to achieve cost avoidance outcomes.
• Propose remediation and optimisation activities that may result in reduced compliance risk and/or financial savings and cost avoidance outcomes.
• Contribute to the achievement of project outcomes while managing compliance and commercial risks for customers.
• Provide quality customer service through adherence to Datacom’s Asset Management service delivery methodology and processes.
• Utilise SAM technologies and their capabilities including Flexera’s FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS) and/or Snow License Manager.
• Interpret data outputs from the SAM technologies and other tools to provide accurate and timely reporting.
• Liaise with service management, and customer teams to define, optimise, and develop SAM standards, processes, procedures, plans and controls to ensure appropriate service asset information is recorded and maintained.

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is one of the largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services in New Zealand and Australia. As an ANZ company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give us our unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

At Datacom, you'll be recognized and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide career opportunity in a collegial and agile environment that empowers people and promotes innovation. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as health insurance, employee discounts, social events, remote working, flexi-hours, and professional development courses to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help our largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their biggest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

If you would like to know more and this sounds like you. Please apply online today!

Join us in our mission to drive technological transformation. We are a dynamic team committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions. Currently, we are in partnership with a Victorian agency dedicated to emergency services, embarking on an exciting journey of cloud migration and transformation. This role requires 1-2 days a week onsite presence in Blackburn North Vic and possibly more days whenever required. We are seeking a highly skilled and adaptable Technical Project Manager, specializing in cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft Azure, for a 6-month contract role. This position is pivotal in overseeing our cloud migration projects, transitioning from on-premises infrastructure to Azure and multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead public and private cloud platform build deliveries, with a focus on Public Cloud Enterprise Landing Zone delivery.
• Ensure alignment with Azure CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) and WAF (Web Application Firewall) in delivering cloud solutions.
• Drive standardization of shared and reusable public cloud services for enterprise usage.
• Experience in Colo Private Cloud Platform build delivery is desirable.
• Manage cloud migrations, including VM Ware and Oracle Databases, from on-premises to multi-cloud environments.
• Conduct workload migration analysis, wave planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Implement effective change management and hypercare post-migration.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition to cloud infrastructures.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Technical Project Manager in cloud technologies, specifically Microsoft Azure.
• Solid background in public and private cloud platform delivery, preferably with Azure CAF and WAF aligned experience. Oracle Public Cloud delivery experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated expertise in cloud migrations, particularly from on-premises to multi-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of workload migration processes and change management.
• Excellent organizational, leadership, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage complex projects and multi-disciplinary teams.

• Adept at problem-solving and technical decision-making.

If you are a seasoned Cloud and IT Infrastructure Project Manager, looking to expand your career in shaping the future of cloud technology , we look forward to your application!

• Lead and manage large scale commercial occupier projects as the key client interface
• Participate in local and national commercial sector groups.
• Developing and leveraging industry relationships and preparing strategies from a business generation and project delivery perspective
• Lead the pre-delivery phase of projects (strategy, site search and AFL/Lease negotiations)
• Lead the delivery phase of projects through to successful completion.
• Managing all aspects of project administration, budgets, timelines, risks and reporting and quality.

We are an Australian technology company creating the future of mobility with software-defined driverless transport. To build this new future and respond to growing demand, we are on the hunt to employ fresh thinking, technical minds to join our dynamic team, where we will continue to innovate and thrive together.

Applied EV develops safety-rated, autonomous-ready, digital control systems (Digital Backbone) and modular vehicle platforms (Blanc Robot), for global commercial applications. We are developing the next generation of mobility, where vehicles run entirely on software and are programmable, improving efficiency & sustainability.

Applied EV creates an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for technology, automotive and innovation to explore our open positions and join our growing team.

As an Energy Management Feature Owner you will be instrumental in the definition of the electric vehicle features related to energy storage, management, and distribution. You will create the technical specifications and high-level design for the feature. You will support the cascading of requirements into the domain engineering teams and manage the implementation to ensure that the feature has the correct function and performance.  Working closely with the Integration & Test teams you will ensure the defined requirements have supporting test cases which are traceable.

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The Energy Management Feature Owner plays a critical part in translating technical specifications into potential architectural solutions, assessing the technical choices to ensure the best trade-off between requirement, schedule, risk, and cost are achieved.

The Energy Management Feature Owner has responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of the feature, arbitrating issues between domain teams.

The Energy Management Feature Owner understands and practices a Systems Engineering approach and has an ability to decompose complexity using different levels of abstraction and expression.

The Energy Management Feature Owner is required to be an articulate technical communicator with experience interfacing between domain engineering teams.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• The Feature Owner will capture and elaborate Functional and Performance specifications for features of a vehicle to be cascaded down to Component specifications for engineering domain teams to conduct product development.
• The Feature Owner will contribute to the Vehicle Architecture Design document and models to communicate the high-level design and justifications to the domain engineering teams. The Feature Owner will document design elaboration including static and behavioural aspects.
• The Feature Owner will work closely with the Verification and Testing team to ensure functional and performance specifications are defined in such a way that they are testable.
• The Feature Owner will develop Interface Control Documents to facilitate the correct integration of independently developed components into the overall system.
• The Feature Owner will collaborate with the Software domain to ensure that the software implementation is consistent with the overall feature specification and design. The Feature Owner will review the detailed derived specifications and designs providing approval to proceed to implementation.
• The Feature Owner will collaborate with the Electrical & Electronics domain to ensure that the hardware implementation is consistent with the overall feature specification and design. The Feature Owner will review the detailed derived specifications and designs providing approval to proceed to implementation.
• The Feature Owner will collaborate with the Mechanical domain to ensure that the mechanical implementation is consistent with the overall feature specification and design. The Feature Owner will review the detailed derived specifications and designs providing approval to proceed to implementation.
• The Feature Owner will collaborate with the Modelling and Simulation Engineer to develop confidence in proposed solutions for the domain engineering teams to execute.
• The Feature Owner will support the Functional Safety team to achieve the defined safety goals of the products under development.
• The Feature Owner will support the Vehicle Solution Architect to ensure that the feature is compatible with overall vehicle architectures.
• The Feature Owner will deliver work products in line with the program schedule, highlighting deficiencies and associated risk to program execution. Ensure that identified risks are communicated in an appropriate forum and that a champion is assigned to establish countermeasures.
• The Feature Owner will utilise the relevant toolchains to develop, release and control feature requirements and architecture artifacts.
• The Feature Owner will lead the resolution of feature issues raised by domain engineering teams. Ensure issues are appropriately tracked in the relevant toolchain, and where required (based on program status) create an Engineering Change Request for architecture evolutions.

Key Competencies:

• An Engineering degree in Mechanical, Electronics, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience in an engineering role involving software, electrical and/or mechanical engineering domains.
• Capable of supporting the development, assessment, and work product generation for complex system architectures.
• Proficient in use case analysis, requirements capture, requirements development, refinement, and release for execution.
• Sound understanding of the v-model development lifecycle through requirements, design, implementation, testing and support.
• Capable of working collaboratively with engineering teams to ensure all interdependencies at a system level are clearly identified and understood to drive a high level of integration in our products.

• The opportunity to have ownership over your responsibilities.
• Satisfaction in being at the forefront of creating the future of a new and growing class of autonomous electric vehicles.
• Work alongside a friendly and passionate team on cutting edge technology.
• Enjoy complimentary kitchen facilities, including an on-site barista, with snacks, drinks, lunch, fresh fruit and tea/coffee.

• Developing working relationships, problem solving and driving projects to successful completion
• Managing the design process to achieve the client's requirements and manage expectations
• Responsible for preparation of project management plans, programs, budgets and other key project deliverables
• Reviewing project plans and specifications, scheduling, costs saving measures, discrepancies, potential construction problems, etc.
• Managing project timelines, risks and reporting 
• Managing project budgets and advising on options to keep budget on track
• Chairing project meetings with clients and consultants
• Managing internal project administration including invoicing, variations, subconsultant management and contract risk
• Building the business through engagement, marketing and tendering activities