Your New Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Manager to assist in business development activities for Leidos products and services in Australia with primary focus on Defence clients. The BDM would work towards identifying, qualifying and capturing new business opportunities and collaborate with the business area for growth of Leidos in Australia .

The key responsibilities: -

• Customer Relationships - Establish and maintain enduring relationships with the clients and stakeholder to qualify and grow the Defence business at Leidos Australia.
• Coordinate customer relationships critical to new business development including partnership development
• Provide timely advise and suggest actions to ensure healthy and productive client relationships.
• Market Analysis - Keep abreast with trends, emerging technologies and competitive threats to develop business development strategies and initiatives.
• Industry Engagement - Participate in Industry events, conferences and meeting to partner and generate leads and promote Leidos offerings and services.
• Identify New Business Opportunities -Identify and qualify opportunities for new business for Leidos, particularly with Service Headquarter minor projects Defence Capability & Sustainment Group for major projects
• Strategic Planning- Provide input into current and long-range business strategies to enhance the Company’s position.
• Process Conformation - Execute the Company’s business capture management processes and provide regular updates on business development activities to the executive leadership team along with customer trends and shifting of market focus.
• Collaboration -Work collaboratively with other Business Development teams, Capture Managers, Technical Experts and delivery teams to build a strong cohesive approach to client proposals.

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)  

We are looking for an experienced General Manager to lead a team of service delivery management professionals. In this role you will be focused on developing and implementing strategy and business plans across your team and with the broader Datacom direction. The role will oversee daily business activities, including working alongside colleagues for sales and customer success adding value and improving overall business functions.

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! 

What you’ll do   

As our General Manager – Service Delivery Management, you will be responsible for ensuring that we deliver service excellence to our customers in commercially compliant and financially sustainable way. Using your strong influencing skills, you will support your team in driving continual service improvement for our customers across our matrix organisation, championing a security first approach in everything we do. With your in-depth experience of technology services outsourcing, you will be able to represent and advocate for our solutions and offerings in support of in account and new customer growth. You will be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills and be able to support our people in all situations and help them in their career development journeys.

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  

• A bachelor’s degree in business or other relevant field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of senior commercial or sales experience within a complex and multifaceted manage services environment
• Demonstrated experience managing service delivery teams within an outsourcing arrangement
• Strong business acumen
• Excellent customer relationship building and management skills
• Strong influencing and persuasive ability
• Ability to manage complex issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Establishes and assures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements
• Ability to frequently interact with a variety of stakeholders and team members, normally involving matters between functional areas, other Datacom divisions, customers and the company
• Proven negotiating skills with the aptitude to ensure win/win situations for all parties
• Ability to build and lead an effective and high performing team
• Detailed understanding of service management methodologies and processes including the ITIL framework
• Demonstrate experience or acceptable knowledge of industry standards such as; ISO 27001, ISO 20000, ISO 9000

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. 

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Your New Role

As the Organisational Change Manager you will be responsible for leading the Organisational Change Management (OCM) capability as part of the Leidos project leadership team delivering an enterprise Health Knowledge Management (HKM) System for Defence.  You will be responsible for driving the OCM outcomes and ensuring the delivery of change and communication strategies and plans, together with associated risk and impact assessments.  The OCM Manager will work in collaboration across the project team and with the strategic OCM partner to successfully coordinate and implement change management activities.

A Day In Life

• Develop effective relationships with key stakeholders
• Provide leadership to the OCM team
• Support the Change Impact Assessment process to assess the impact of change, including people, process, technology and systems to determine requirements from current to future state on the business and define how these impacts will be managed
• Coordinate the Business Readiness activities and ensure the schedule is aligned to deliver targeted communication and engagement activities
• Oversee the document deliverables for OCM and ensure consistency and best practice for the approach and process to change management; coordinate the workflow of the key strategic OCM partner
• Utilise the expertise of our partners and advisers to bring in new ideas (automation or tools) to optimise the organisational change management process and clinical change activities
• Provide oversight to the schedule and reporting of OCM Activities.

• Lead and manage complex projects and programs as the key client interface
• Developing working relationships, problem solving and driving projects to successful completion
• Managing the design process to achieve the client's requirements and manage expectations
• Reviewing project plans and specifications, scheduling, costs saving measures, discrepancies, potential construction problems, etc.
• Managing project safety and environmental requirements
• Managing project timelines, risks and reporting
• Managing project budgets and advising on options to keep budget on track
• Chairing project/site meetings with clients, consultants and contractors