• Develop and implement strategic marketing programs for selected products.
• Increase market share in key segments.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with key customers.
• Contribute to a cohesive team focused on customer satisfaction.
• Liaise with product principals and implement product strategies.
• Develop promotions and activities to boost sales and gross profit.
• Manage customer-involved projects and ensure product penetration into new sites.
• Acquire and maintain product knowledge and technical competency.
• Provide technical support and training to sales teams and key customers.
• Prepare sales and marketing forecasts and objectives.
• Develop and maintain pricing strategies to meet organizational goals.
• Monitor market opportunities, identify new projects, customers, and growth areas.
• Collaborate with marketing, sales staff, industry associations, and government bodies.
• Provide monthly reports on sales performance, outlooks, and competitor activity.
• Deliver regular sales forecasts and updates to the team.

• Full-time or part-time position until 30 June 2025 

• Hybrid – flexible working options available 

• No billable hours 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU 

Compensation: Up to $18,550 free income tax per year through Salary Packaging and opportunity to purchase additional leave. 

Flexibility: Flexibility to work full-time/part-time from home, from our Kingston office and within the community. 

Culture: You're never alone. Enjoy an engaging, inclusive, and supportive team environment, with professional support, training, and supervision. Benefit from peer-to-peer learning through allied health support and key-worker best practice meetings. 

Professional Development: Access $500 for SPARK Communication training (Hanen). Enjoy a comprehensive induction program and ongoing training for all staff that includes group supervision with national leads. As well as, a “Leading at EACH” program for those that have leadership aspirations.  

THE ROLE 
Looking for a rewarding career in early childhood intervention? EACH needs an experienced Early Years Specialist to join our diverse team of Allied Health professionals, Social Workers, and Inclusive Education specialists. In this role, you'll: 

• Deliver supports, in partnership with families, to help them achieve their goals, using evidence informed best practice.  

• Use assessments, observations, and your understanding of child development to tailor support options that fit each child and family.  

• Empower families, caregivers, and professionals, helping them build skills and confidence to support children in their everyday lives using your coaching skills. 

• Connect children and families with their community to ensure they are included and can participate in the settings and activities they choose.  

• keep thorough records of conversations, developmental progress, and goals, in the NDIA business system. 

• Guide families through the application, implementation, and funding processes of NDIS plans. 

This role requires the candidate to

• Drive insights for clients through developing market and client specific intelligence on business payments trends and behaviours, leveraging Visa’s extensive data assets

• Support sales activities through the presentation of these market insights to clients and partners, advocating new solutions to existing clients and pitching to new prospective clients

• Drive client decision making and support client management activities through the presentation of client specific portfolio insights, advocating appropriate portfolio optimisation initiatives

• Leverage these market insights and any client specific feedback from financial institutions and businesses to inform the strategic roadmap for Visa CMS AuNZSP

• Enhance the performance of CMS AuNZSP through developing and maintaining robust internal reporting, coordinating with the Visa Finance team

• Keep up to date with trends, developments and regulations that relate to the payment industry. Maintain an awareness of competitor positioning and the small business market landscape

• Discover new business opportunities for Visa through developing your market knowledge of the B2B payments, fintech and neobank space and

• Support investment decisions through the development of robust business cases for initiatives such as new product developments, new partnerships or marketing campaigns.

This role requires a candidate who is excited by the opportunity to help AuNZSP businesses digitise payments. You will need passion for AuNZSP business and a willingness to use your initiative and curiosity to drive insights that can transform this space.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the New Product Development Manager, this exciting opportunity will see you focusing on the setup and co-ordinating product introductions into production sites, managing timelines, artwork approvals and information flow between internal key stake holders, customers, and suppliers. The role requires the compiling of costing  for a range of FMCG products using an existing costing template for Finance and operations before submitting to Sales team for customer negotiations.

New products will range from complex projects using new technologies and platforms, development of new brands, range extensions and relaunches of existing products. Pact Contract Manufacturing range of FMCG products manufactured include personal care, homecare, industrial and aerosols over multiple manufacturing sites and packaging formats.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Co-ordinate New Product introduction and change management.
•  Ensuring adherence to timelines for new product opportunities.
• Identify any business or supply risk for projects, ensuring project DIFOT 
• Read and interpret customer briefs.
• Work towards customer cost targets and identify/communicate compromises to meet expected costs or timings.
• Determine project packaging requirements and source materials from new and existing suppliers.
• Identify and implement material cost saving opportunities.
• Liaise with internal and external suppliers & customers regarding new product launches, packaging design, timings, and packaging specifications.
• Generate new product costings by liaising with key personnel to determine labour and material cost and identify any additional expenditure required for launch, present finalised costing to Business Commercial Manager and Site Manager for analysis and approval.
• Liaise with customers on all relevant details required for new product implementation.
• Identify and co-ordinate product run in and run outs.
• Responsible for scheduling and running Project meetings with internal stakeholders and communicating to relevant departments on project critical path and dates.
• Setup of new materials, BOM’s, and pricing in internal SAP system as well as continual system maintenance.
• Partake in problem solving with respect to packaging or efficiency and where appropriate lead resolution with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assisting with the setup of internal documentation and product specifications for Quality department.
• Work with the operations team to ensure first run targets are achieved.
• Strictly following OHS requirements and safety procedures.
• Contribute to the achievements of the department and company’s commercial & quality objectives.

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll bring:

• Attention to detail and experience in delivering to brief
•  Experience working in a dynamic environment.
• Experience working to tight timelines.
• Strong SAP and Excel skills.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to develop and continually improve processes.
• Experience in packaging or contract manufacturing sector.

About Us

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $75 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

About the Job

The Rest Investments Team is undergoing significant transformation as we pursue our goal to be the leading Investment Team in the Australian superannuation industry with a strong member focus and superior investment performance 

This is an exciting role providing specialist support as we continue to implement new technology platforms and applications to support us in achieving our goal. The Application Support Specialist will support the business using a suite of Investment-specific applications such as Charles River, FactSet, Bloomberg, Alpha Data Platform among others. 

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities 

Working within an existing team, and the wider business, the Application Support Specialist, will provide specialist application support within Rest Investment Team, with a priority focus on supporting investments applications with primary focus on Alpha platform Charles River, Alpha Data Platform and other applications in our grown ecosystem.  

The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and functionality of our investment technology platforms, and involves providing technical support, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating with various internal and external teams. 

Specialist Application Support 

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with relevant vendors.  Notably Charles River and State Street. 

• Support and maintain investments applications throughout the lifecycle including Charles River, Alpha Data Platform, FactSet, Bloomberg, iLevel and other investments platforms in the ecosystem. 

• Providing technical support and day to day management and resolution of all business incidents and requests, in line with agreed SLAs and processes.  

• Coordinating activities with external vendors and internal stakeholders in a professional manner to ensure high level of customer satisfaction 

• Anticipate and address potential issues before they become a problem including escalating unresolved issues and formulating a plan to address keeping all stakeholders informed 

• Work with the broader team to ensure application issues/requests are fulfilled including applications security enhancements 

Incident Management  

• Manage and prioritize incidents, working to minimize system downtime and ensure rapid resolution of critical issues. 

• Develop and implement incident response procedures to enhance system stability. 

• Support the testing and quality assurance activities for system changes, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and adherence to business requirements. 

• Support the rollout and adoption of new investment systems and functionalities, including user training and change management activities. 

• Assist in data analysis and reporting tasks related to investment systems, providing insights to stakeholders for informed decision-making. 

• Contribute to Application Services documentation including user guides, technical documentation and reporting.  

• Implement and manage deployment of changes to all business applications and services including developing, writing and/or maintaining technical documentation and training for supported solutions 

• Create test scripts and undertake Release Verification Testing for all business solutions upgrades/deployments to ensure systems reliability and minimal business disruptions and report performance remediation activities for all business solutions to stakeholders as required