Ambius division of Rentokil Initial has a great opportunity for a Local Service Manager to join the team. You will use your collaborative and engaging leadership style to take on the responsibility to coach, mentor and lead a team of service people to consistently deliver a high quality of service to our customers and encourage growth in our sales.

About Ambius

At Ambius, interior landscaping means more than just plants. We strive to be the premier creator of ambience for businesses which enriches the work experience and delivers a productive environment enabling people to thrive.

Our Ambius team are the people responsible for the lovely plant decor in hotel lobbies, the clusters of plant designs in shopping centres, the green walls and floral displays you see in many restaurants and office receptions. In summary we are responsible for providing any sized organisation with interior/exterior landscaping which engages clients and their staff through the health benefits of plants!

This is a highly customer-focused role and is ideally suited for someone with the desire and motivation to succeed and move up into more Senior roles within the Rentokil Initial business in the future.

Responsibilities in this role include:

• Coach, mentor and train the Service Team to achieve targets.
• Monitor and review service productivity rates, seek improvement and continually improve productivity, year on year.
• Implement the regional annual operational plan
• Conduct regular quality audits of specified client base and premises.
• Ensure Company service practices are met and identify opportunities to improve service standards.
• Ensure service efficiency is optimised through tools and technology available.
• Ensure the team’s company vehicles are maintained in a safe, reliable and clean condition.
• Proactively resolve customers’ issues.
• Develop and maintain long term customer relationships.

Requirements :

It will be expected that the successful candidate will have:

• Previous experience in a similar services role
• Experience within a management role with a services or operations background prefred but not essential.
• Experienced in implementing Worksite safety initiatives, dispute resolution and regular reporting to higher management
• High level communications and commercial experience
• The drive to lead by example to set a high standard of customer service

The successful candidate must be able to pass a Pre-employment medical, drug & alcohol screen as well as background and police checks.

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for to take your career to the next level, click the Apply button now to submit your resume.

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

The Capacity/Availability Manager is responsible for the operation and improvement the Capacity and Availability Management process so that managed services and infrastructure can deliver the agreed capacity and performance targets in a cost effective and timely manner.

The Capacity/Availability Manager acts as the central point for all capacity and performance related activities between the customer, operational and project teams to is to act as the process subject matter expert ensuring systems have sufficient capacity to deliver client business needs without waste.

Our offices are based in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. We like to bring people together in person when we can, but we are mindful of the benefits of working from home for work/ life balance. We therefore leave it to you and the team you join to figure out what works best!

Due to client requirements, to be eligible for this role you must be an Australian Citizen and be able to obtain an AGSVA Baseline clearance. 

What you’ll do

At the moment, as Capacity/Availability Manager you will be focused on:

• Defines and implements Capacity/Availability Management policies, processes, tools and procedures
• Work with customers to obtain and understand demand requirements and patterns of business activity
• Manage an ongoing program with the client and delivery teams to identify and implement service improvement initiatives.
• Identify efficiencies that can be implemented to reduce the cost of delivering services without compromising the quality-of-service levels
• Monitor and track delivery of services against relevant SLA’s.
• Build strong relationships and develop a sound understanding of the client’s business needs, demand requirements and patterns of business activity
• Escalate risks discovered in, or affecting, the Capacity/Availability Management service

• End to end ownership and management of internal and third-party suppliers to ensure successful outcomes.

We are a pretty agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.

What you’ll bring

Required experience:

• Previous experience working as a Capacity/Availability Manager within a large complex multi-vendor environment

• Experience working in an ITIL aligned environment
• Broad understanding of technical concepts and frameworks

Nice to have:

• Ideally prior experience as a Capacity/Availability Manager in an IT Managed Services environment

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. 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.

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. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.