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 

The Associate Director – Go To Market (GTM) Strategy and Planning is responsible for managing and orchestrating a GTM approach to Datacom’s portfolio of services and products, driving lead generation and customer acquisition. The role will lead Datacom’s GTM Group strategy and planning across Australia and New Zealand.  

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex matrix products and services portfolio organisations requiring first hand of GTM strategy and orchestration across sales, proposition and marketing teams.  
• Knowledge of building GTM initiatives founded on strategic investments across multiple value propositions 
• Leadership in the development of market-focused GTM plans with an understanding of proposition planning.  
• Broad and deep understanding of marketing and sales strategy, operations and related technology industry dependencies. 
• Demonstrated ability to implement long-term, customer-centred and data-driven strategies to obtain commercial results. 

What you’ll do:

• Provide leadership and and orchestrate a GTM approach to Datacom’s portfolio of services and products, driving lead generation and growth.  
• Establish an aligned approach to GTM in conjunction with Sales, Marketing, Partner Management, Proposition and Market Strategy teams.  

• Lead the day-to-day GTM Hub strategy across Markets and Lines of Business relating to GTM operations and governance, ensuring that planning and orchestration of a GTM strategy is delivered.  

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. 

The Opportunity

At OES, our Sales Consultants work on behalf of our University partners, working on warm leads from potential students looking to further their higher education. Day-to-day you will have meaningful, consultative conversations to guide your customer into an appropriate higher education course. Each sale you make means you’ve helped someone better their life through education – it’s a true feelgood.

What’s in it for you?

Along with joining a passionate, energetic and highly skilled team, this role will allow you to gain exposure to many growth and development opportunities. OES offers a hybrid, flexible approach to work, where we work 2-3 days from our state-of-the-art Cremorne office, and the rest from home (or wherever you choose!). Breakfast, snacks, table tennis, Nintendo Switch are all available in the office, as well as an in-house massage therapist and weekly staff drinks. Ultimately, you will be joining a values-driven, collaborative business where your creativity and innovation will be nurtured and celebrated.

OTE Package

As a guide, below is the average package that a new starter would expect to achieve. The amazing part is that you dictate your commissions as they’re uncapped. Remember the package below is the average but others are earning much more. How much could you achieve?

• A starting salary of between $62,000 + super
• $8,500 pa average commissions
• $2,900 average company bonus

In Addition

• Base salary and Superannuation are guaranteed and not tied to sales results
• Commission earnings are uncapped and directly tied to your individual sales results and the above figure is an average, so you can earn even more

About You

• Outbound sales contact centre experience is highly regarded, as is any other sales experience
• Have worked with KPIs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Thrive on closing a sale and making an impact on people’s lives

About OES

OES is a vibrant and values led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams to be student focused, innovative and embrace change with a growth mindset to ensure we achieve our vision of being the world’s most impactful enabler of education. We encourage our people to grow and develop through teamwork and a diverse range of projects, programs and challenging work. We trust our people to deliver, so when you work with OES, you will join a team who are empowered to impact every day.

If this role is of interest, please apply now with your updated CV.

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Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

What you will be doing

• Strong leadership skills with a long-term proven track-record of achieving sales and revenue growth targets.

• Ability to demonstrate persistence, high-energy, proactive approach to overcome adversity, obstacles, solve problems, to ‘navigate forward’ in order to find solutions even thru adversity

• Hands-on operator within a team environment while also able to command the respect of the entire company through leadership, intelligence, hard work, presence, and empathy.

• Strong communication skills: able to bring back the ‘voice of the customer’ and engage thoughtfully with product teams and other strategic team members within FIS.

• Ability to craft, distill and deliver powerful messages that convey meaning and value to our team and our clients.

• Proven track record in identifying, negotiating, & execution to closure, specific to selling complex multi-million-dollar software and services to large diversified financial institutions.

• Ability to establish extensive in-depth understanding of the client’s strategy, and coordination of a high touch relationship between FIS executives and the Sr. C-Level Executives with specified territory.

• Strong knowledgeable of market developments, apprising sales teams of competitor activity, including competitive product usage, and proposals in progress throughout the account. 

What you bring

• Minimum 10+ years of successful sales experience in the financial services industry

• The appetite to go deep in managing the relationship with some key top FIS APAC accounts 

• Extensive selling experience and proven track record of results, within the software and services sector

• Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, diversity of business customer, and higher-level customer interface

• Well versed in sales effectiveness techniques and strategies

• Minimum Bachelor's degree, Advanced degree preferred

What we offer you

• Attractive benefits including private medical cover, dental cover, and travel insurance

• Training across core financial, sales and FIS solutions

• International travel

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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All while working alongside passionate, experienced and strategic team that will help you stretch your craft and client skills.

ABOUT YOU
We are looking for someone who:

• Has fine tuned expertise in research, marketing, statistical analysis, psychology or social science fields.
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• Is team focused and will encourage, train and develop others and share knowledge / expertise company wide.
• Sets an example, is a leader within their own work and with clients.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BENEFITS WE OFFER YOU?
Join an award-winning agency that values innovation and transformative thinking TRA has been awarded Gold for Campaign Asia-Pacific Market Research Agency of the Year and Silver for Independent Agency of the Year, in Australia and New Zealand in 2023.

We have been recognised across the prestigious AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards system – placing 3rd in the Media and Marketing category in last year and Professional Services category this year for the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work Australasia list.

Do the best work of your life, alongside some of the greatest thinkers you’ll encounter in your career and be part of the formative TRA Melbourne team as we establish and grow our footprint. Our senior leaders will be working hands on alongside you, with opportunity to learn, grow and develop while doing incredibly valuable work.

A commitment to focused learning, with two hours set aside each week for TRA Academy, means you will be able to continually expand your knowledge, skills, and thinking. Combined with outstanding on-the-job learning experiences, you will have the support to take your career to the next level.

You’ll be working in a dynamic, new co-sharing office space at The Commons in Collingwood – inspired and connected into creative, strategic people and businesses.

We are a curious, creative, and multi-disciplinary team committed to delivering amazing work built on values of collaboration, creativity, and clarity.

You’ll be given a voice to shape the direction and thinking of TRA and how the wider world uses human understanding to create better outcomes for all.

We have regular social events, some flexibility to work from home, and a competitive salary package to underpin the experience!  

WE VALUE DIVERSITY IN ALL ITS FORMS
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We know from research that women or non-binary applicants don’t always apply for roles they don’t feel 100% qualified for, so we encourage anyone who is interested to get in touch. Focus on the bullet points that match your experience, not the ones that don’t.

Our job posting is the starting point for a conversation, and we’re always excited to hear from people who are interested in working with us.

If you’re curious, apply now! We’d love to hear from you