Position: Senior Product Manager (Technology Consulting, Business Analysis)
Location: Sydney, Australia
WorkStyle: Sydney Hybrid based
Simple Machines. Data Engineered to Life™

Simple Machines is a leading independent boutique technology firm with a global presence, including teams in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and New Zealand. We specialise in creating technology solutions at the intersection of data, AI, machine learning, data engineering, and software engineering. Our mission is to help enterprises, technology companies, and governments better connect with and understand their organisations, their people, their customers, and citizens. We are a team of creative engineers and technologists dedicated to unleashing the potential of data in new and impactful ways. We design and build bespoke data platforms and unique software products, create and deploy intelligent systems, and bring engineering expertise to life by transforming data into actionable insights and tangible outcomes.

About You

We are looking for a consultant-minded individual who is passionate about working closely with clients to solve complex problems and lead them on a journey from discovery to technical implementation. You have a knack for understanding client needs and delivering market-leading solutions and have worked in Technology Consulting | Business Analysis | Software Development

You will love and excel in this role if you:

• Have a strong background in Technology Consulting, played a Senior Manager role within a top-tier consulting company.
• Have a refined understanding of how modern software is built and delivered (tools, methodologies, roles, common challenges etc.)
• A demonstrated knowledge of different methods and tools that help you to perform analysis, testing, product management and delivery in a range of environment
• Know how to effectively communicate information between people at all levels of the business, in written and verbal form
• Have a passion for accruing knowledge, and using that knowledge to continuously improve yourself and the team’s performance
• Personal interest in best practice and trends of the technology industry, with the ability to apply these to your day-to-day work
• A relationship builder by nature, and someone who can thrive in new teams and new situations
• A proactive person who knows what needs to be done, how to approach it, and how to influence others to move things forward
• An ambitious person who is excited about the prospect of joining a small, close-knit ANZ team of experts and helping it to grow

The Exciting Part

Simple Machines is not your average consultancy or software engineering firm. Our team is comprised of inspiring industry leaders in Consulting, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Our projects, for a global client base, are data-focused and drive real change.

About the Role

We are looking for someone to join our close-knit team of experts to help deliver our client engagements as we scale our ANZ business. If you excel in client facing roles, have a deep understanding of how modern software is built and delivered, and have a passion for technology then we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s a brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:

Drive the engagement

• Understand each clients’ unique business needs, the ‘why’ behind each project and develop solutions that will fulfil each clients’ success criteria
• Act as a translator between business teams and technology delivery
• Develop domain expertise unique to each engagement

Feed the engineering team

• Provide high quality written requirements, acceptance criteria, feature overviews, test cases and other artefacts for the team to work from
• Run effective meetings with team and stakeholders

Drive the team’s direction

• Clearly articulate the business needs and work with the tech team to translate these into technical requirements
• Persuade the client and the SM team on what should be done and why

Increase the team’s speed

• Understand and anticipate dependencies in software delivery
• Enable decision making through excellent communication

Assure the team’s focus

• Protect the engineering team from day to day ‘noise’
• Embed and optimise processes to handle our scope of work and new demand

Assure SM’s position with the client

• Build and nurture relationships with clients at all levels
• Help to manage SM’s delivery risk

At Cars24 we don't just accept differences, we celebrate it and support it for the benefit of our employees and customers!

CARS24 is a global used vehicle e-commerce platform with over US$1billion in sales. The company originates in India, where it is the largest player in used vehicles, 10X the size of the next competitor. Australia, along with Dubai and Saudi Arabia are priority markets. Join the business that's changing the way Australians buy and sell cars!

High volume business with huge growth opportunity!

About the role:

We are looking for a professional, friendly, multi-skilled individual to join us as our Finance and Business Manager to guide and help customers through their finance applications when they buy their car. You will be assisting customers navigate finance options at the time of check-out and will be screening and assessing customers to find them the best finance option while providing exceptional customer experience throughout the process.

The role will be based out of our location in Morningside QLD on a 5 day roster including Saturdays.

• Minimum 2 years experience as a finance consultant / broker / business manager, preferably in Asset Finance or car dealerships
• Cert IV in financial services (good to have) or equivalent and / or relevant tertiary qualifications
• Assessing customers' needs, creditworthiness and affordability using data shared by customers and from credit agencies
• Provide exceptional multi-channel (calls, emails) assistance to our customers through their finance application using your deep knowledge of car loan products
• Acting as a liaison between lenders and customers to help customers navigate through declines or requests for more information from lenders
• Acting as trusted advisor to customers looking to purchase other ancillary products such as Extended Warranty and tinting from Cars24
• Passion and go-getter attitude to achieve strong customer outcomes
• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain and resolve queries regarding financial products to customers
• Proven customer service background with experience in both inbound and outbound calls to customers
• Flexibility to work with new and changing technology platforms
• Attention to detail to make sure all I's are dotted and T's are crossed in the entire customer loan journey
• Be prepared to undergo a police and background check

• Competitive salary package and exceptional employee benefits!!
• Industry leading OTEs
• Monthly Phone Allowance + More
• Great Employee Benefits
• OTE - $130K+ uncapped earnings (base + super + Commissions)
• Employee Assist Program
• Ground-up opportunity: build a big business from scratch and shape the strategic direction of the market, changing the way Australians buy cars
• Amazing people & network. You are not alone - we keep standards high for anyone who joins us here. We also have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage