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 the Role

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Duty Manager to join the Front Office team at Pullman & Mercure Melbourne Albert Park.

Reporting to the Front Office Manager, you will: 

• Lead a shift of front office professionals, including our overnight team, ensuring our guest experience is at the forefront at all times.
• Assist in developing, implementing and maintaining procedures for the Front Office department and fostering a focus on guest engagement.
• Assist with the management of the team including training and development, ensuring the team’s success.
• Lead by example when attending to guest requests. Be proactive and resourceful.
• Responsibility for the health and safety of all patrons, guests and staff members.

The Cloud Operations Team are central to how Nine uses cloud technology, and are the primary point of contact within the Platforms function regarding anything cloud. You’ll be leading from the front in building out Nine’s cloud security posture and policies, monitoring and alerting tooling, as well as managing cost controls (FinOps) and vendors. 

You contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world
around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear
within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals.

You work in partnership with various product teams and practices enabling them to conduct rapid, stable, secure and repeatable deployments on Cloud and Kubernetes at scale.

You are structured and methodical in your process and have demonstrated skills building and delivering support services for 24/7 systems.

Day to Day, you will: 

Enabling your team:

• Assist the team in a hands-on capacity as required
• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership:

• Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Always be on the lookout for products, solutions and enhancements which address current or perceived future business problems

Drive high performance:

• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Participate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where needed
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance

The Platform Solutions Team are central to how Nine deploy workloads to the cloud. You’ll be leading from the front in building out Nine’s cloud infrastructure to deliver the content that Australia loves.

You contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals.

You work in partnership with various product teams and practices enabling them to conduct rapid, stable, secure and repeatable deployments on Cloud and Kubernetes at scale.

You are structured and methodical in your process and have demonstrated skills building and delivering support services for 24/7 systems.

Day to Day, you will: 

Enabling your team:

• Assist the team in a hands-on capacity as required
• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership:

• Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology for workload management using Kubernetes (especially EKS)
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Always be on the lookout for products, solutions and enhancements which address current or perceived future business problems

Drive high performance:

• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Participate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where needed
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance

• Lead the strategic approach and execution of multi-million-dollar proposals, tenders and bid responses. This includes:
  • Reviewing procurement documentation, leading bid go/no go discussions, and formulating a clear plan for delivering a compelling offer.
  • Acting as bid manager by mobilising internal stakeholders, setting timelines and overseeing execution against the plan.
  • Complying with the Turner & Townsend “bid to win” process and governance requirements
  • Facilitating discussions focused on differentiators, win themes and content to ensure high quality answers are developed.
  • Working with Board-level directors and other functional teams to deliver tender responses through collation of information, writing tender responses directly, or supporting others to produce quality responses.
  • Working with external organisations and partners to develop and deliver bids and proposals.
  • Delivering a professional bid that complies with brand guidelines and clearly and succinctly communicates key messages.
  • Providing constructive feedback or escalating concerns to senior leadership and partner organisations throughout the bid and interview process
  • Ensuring that all deadlines are met and that bids are submitted on time, and in the correct manner.
• Supporting positioning activities that support high conversion and business development activity. Examples include undertaking competitor research, market analysis or interrogating client feedback.
• Identifying opportunities for cross-selling through deep understanding of Turner & Townsend services and products.
• Supporting the preparation of other deliverables related to conversion and work winning, such as interview presentation coaching and procurement team engagement.
• Building bid capability and skills in the Turner & Townsend India business of 600 professionals.
• Reporting on pipeline and bid conversion at Senior Leadership levels, including providing analysis and commentary on trends.
• Leading the bid function in India; working alongside a small team of existing bid professionals
• Contribute to content libraries and best practice approaches by overseeing maintenance of content and bid libraries.
• Support Business Development with other activities, as required

Your Career

As the ANZ Major Account Manager for Global Accounts, your primary responsibility will be to sell the Palo Alto Networks portfolio of products and services into some of our most significant & strategic accounts. You will be responsible for building, developing and managing the Australia and New Zealand partnerships with these accounts. Your role will have you defining and driving the account strategy, working closely with the relevant Global Client Leads in the US and EMEA. You must be able to build strong global, regional and local relationships, drive and execute adoption strategies of global standards with regional stakeholders and deliver over-achievement of your revenue goals.

Your Impact

• Constructs and sells large multi-product, platform solutions and services utilising strategic partnerships to deliver business outcomes
• Executing tactical business while investing in larger, longer-term strategic opportunities
• Act as an inspired leader for an extended team of virtual resources to ensure consistent and effective team engagement and ensuring optimal usage of resources across management, supporting and partner organisations
• Effectively present and deliver the Palo Alto Networks value proposition, develop compelling proposals and negotiate great, everybody wins agreements
• Establish strong executive-level relationships throughout the customers ANZ  organisations
• Co-develop account plans with the lead Global Client Leads of each account
• Maintain accurate and timely weekly, monthly and quarterly forecast which will ultimately exceed your annual revenue goal