As our City Facility Manager, you’ll be responsible for delivering NEXTDC’s brand promise of 100% uptime to our customers, by successfully maintaining an assigned portfolio of NEXTDC data centres within New South Wales.

This position effectively manages senior members within the facility team and provides

day-to day support to enable their success of maintaining grey-space areas to a high standard, and for white-space areas to be provisioned in accordance with customer requirements and expectations.

Within this role you’ll also promote and embed continuous improvement principles within the team to ensure NEXTDC’s data centres remain to be at the forefront of customer service excellence and innovation.

People Management

• Embed a high performing culture within the team
• Ensure complete resourcing of team members across the assigned portfolio, accounting for customer requirements, maintenance and commissioning scheduling requirements and safety protocols.
• Facilitate the teams’ development through identifying learning and development opportunities, coaching and on-the-job training

Data Centre Management

• Manage operational risk of the facilities within the assigned portfolio to ensure 100% uptime
• Obtain and maintain relevant data centre certifications for the facilities within the assigned portfolio, including ISO90001, ISO270001, ISO140001, ISO45001
• Ensure operational excellence to achieve and maintain UTI uptime operational sustainability Gold standard
• Manage the Operational budget of the facilities within the assigned portfolio to ensure critical plant is maintained at optimum efficiency, and coordinate the implementation of tuning where required
• Manage the facility capacity planning to forecast and maximise capital investment
• Oversee the maintenance and operation of your facilities critical infrastructure, including but not limited to electrical and mechanical systems to ensure there is no deferred maintenance

Risk Management

• Identify and report all operational, security and WHS incidents
• Assist in the identification and management of risks listed in the Site Risk Register. Proactively report and escalate any identified risks that are unable to be managed to Head of Facility Management.
• Conduct regular reviews with the Services Manager to ensure all staff, contractors and stakeholders are being informed of their obligations and associated responsibilities in regards to facility related risks (as per PTW)

About you: 

• Extensive knowledge of all aspects of data centres including electrical and mechanical configurations, rack management, design and installation
• Understanding of high-density data centre power, cooling approaches and technologies
• Extensive knowledge of building services (Structural, DRUPS/UPS, HV/LV switchgear, Electrical Design, Generators, Security Systems, HVAC, Fire, Security, EMS, BMS)
• Extensive knowledge of cabling & cable management and quality inspection/assurance
• Understanding of and the ability to apply ITIL best practises
• Experience with operational reporting (including incident and technical change management), capacity planning and budget forecasting
• Experience with Contract & Resource Management.
• Effective relationship building and interpersonal skills 

This opportunity will see you working with world leaders in our space. Join our journey now and be an integral part of our success. 

About LEAP

LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Productivity Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market leading software we develop and support is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll find yourself in good company here.

Meet the Client Success Team

Our Client Success team are the experienced LEAP specialists responsible for managing, onboarding, training and retaining clients with LEAP’s Core product as well as Integrated Products and Apps. As a trusted LEAP expert, you’ll work closely with clients to enable easy and efficient utilisation of LEAP software, leaving our clients free to focus on what they do best.

You'll provide hands-on, on-site and face to face support that give our clients comfort and confidence in the power of our products. This is a valuable opportunity to have powerful impact in a meaningful space, guiding clients from day one right through to ‘business as usual’.

What you'll do

As our newest Sydney based Client Success Manager you will ensure long-term retention of our clients with your relationship management skills and knowledge of the legal industry. You will maximise our client's satisfaction and loyalty to the LEAP product which will minimise client churn, and effectively engage with at-risk clients to win their confidence and develop successful product adoption and retention strategies. You will be involved in aspects of support, account management, product and feature demonstration, education of clients and your day to day might look like this:

• Maximise the productivity of clients using LEAP by confidently demonstrating new features, products and add-ons
• Build trusted relationships by understanding the client’s challenges and needs and provide/facilitate effective solutions
• Work with key stakeholders (Principals and Practice Managers) to suggest improvements to productivity and utilisation using LEAP features and products
• Identify at-risk accounts by monitoring and analysing “Client Health” metrics, NPS results and other feedback to identify clients who are not realising the full benefit from their investment in LEAP
• Collate positive client testimonials for use in marketing material
• Represent the voice of the client to provide input into LEAP Dev, Marketing and Sales
• Collaborate closely with Implementations, Renewals and Companion Product teams to address issues and to identify expansion / upsell opportunities
• Ensure all client activity is accurately logged in Salesforce (CRM) in a timely manner
• Attend and present at conferences, roadshows, webinars, exhibitions and events, networking with existing clients and prospective clients
• Achieve individual and team targets, including “Top 5” goals aligned with the company’s goals

To be successful in this client facing role you will have 2+ years experience working in a law firm in some capacity and a proactive approach to client satisfaction. On top of that, you will bring:

• A proven ability to negotiate and engage in a confidence-winning manner, achieving commercial outcomes and high levels of client satisfaction and loyalty
• A track record of meeting and / or exceeding sales targets and KPIs
• The ability to build strong relationships with both clients and internal stakeholders through confidence and trust
• Experience navigating challenging situations and clients

You are the type of person who

• Builds trusting relationships using appropriate interpersonal styles to establish effective relationships with clients and internal partners; interacting with others in a way that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in one’s intentions
• Is proactive – you take prompt action to accomplish objectives, and achieve goals beyond what is required
• Is passionate about client satisfaction – you take responsibility for client satisfaction and loyalty and can sense the appropriate approach to ongoing client support
• Has high impact communication – you can clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others’ thoughts and actions
• Has exceptional time management – you can effectively manage your time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently and to the highest of standards!
• Has strong presentation skills – you can effectively present LEAP features to a group of people and ability to read the room

LEAP will provide you with the best training, equipment, mentoring and support that we are capable of to optimise the chances of you being successful. In addition to that you'll receive:

• Friendly, supportive, and driven culture
• Complimentary gym membership
• Flexible Work Environment
• Fully stocked pantry
• Monthly massages
• Break out area and sporting activities
• Monthly celebrations for birthdays, work anniversaries, new joiners
• Generous Parental Leave benefits
• One additional paid "Be Me" leave day per year to celebrate being you!
• Opportunity to participate in our Employee Share Scheme