Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks, we are committed to securing the digital world and empowering organisations with endless possibilities. As an Enterprise Account Director, you will play a pivotal role in managing major, strategic accounts, establishing strong relationships with key executives, and exceeding sales quotas and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). You will adopt an indirect leadership role across a number of shared services all focused on ensuring your and our success in your assigned territory, and optimising market presence, revenues, and results for Palo Alto Networks.

Your Impact

• Create and drive multimillion dollar, multi year pursuits with key  Victorian Public Sector strategic accounts
• Build and nurture relationships with key executive stakeholders in the  Victorian Public Sector
• Leverage your consultative selling experience to identify business challenges and create solutions for Victorian Public Sector prospects and our customers
• Understand the Victorian Public Sector competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed  Victorian Public Sector territory plan
• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for the  Victorian Public Sector
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services. Demonstrate Victorian Public Sector industry knowledge, articulating unique value to customers - Develop strategies aligning  Victorian Public Sector customer's business goals with Palo Alto Networks’ value proposition
• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings
• Take up an indirect leadership role responsible for orchestrating a diverse shared services team to optimise revenues and profitability
• Establish strong relationships with C-level executives and decision-makers and identify mutually beneficial business opportunities with external partners
• Provide credible leadership across various business functions, fostering collaboration - Be accountable and trusted in customer and internal interactions
• Drive revenue-maximising opportunities, utilising Palo Alto Networks’ capabilities - Focus on high-value growth with long-term perspective, executing innovative business models
• Enhance Total Customer Experience and deliver maximum value through continuous improvement
• Cultivate value-added partnerships, extending Palo Alto Networks’ reach and capabilities - Deliver incremental benefits to customers through strategic collaborations

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Liaising with customer to plan and implement agreed services
• Scheduling of appointments.
• Maintaining busy inboxes, with queries, appointments and non-appointment services
• Providing administrative and operational support to consultant practitioners
• Providing information and advice to customers, or prospective customers
• Undertaking other tasks assigned to the Client Services team, including reception duties,  dictation, invoicing and supporting the greater team in general.

Equal Access to High-Quality Education Moves Our World Forward

Meet Cadmus!

At Cadmus, we believe every student should have equal opportunity to achieve academic excellence; that’s why we’re changing how the world learns!

Cadmus is a global EdTech company purposefully built for the higher education sector to break down global learning barriers by providing educators and diverse student cohorts with access to high-quality learning and assessment. Built on rich, student-centric values, Cadmus empowers individuals to achieve their highest potential and graduate with the critical skills and knowledge to profoundly impact our workforces, communities, and evolving world.

A Bold Plan for Global Impact

At Cadmus, we’re working hard in pursuit of an ambitious, world-shaping goal: to provide 1 billion students with access to high-quality education by 2050.

That’s why we need a high-performing Executive Officer to join our team and support our CEO and senior executive team.

At Cadmus, we’re doing a lot of great work rapidly to create a profound impact on our world through the power of education. With Cadmus currently being used in 50+ countries, we’re looking for an Executive Support Officer who is passionate about supporting leadership to achieve topline company objectives.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, our Executive Support Officer will:

• Secure meetings with potential new customers and pipeline customers by working with the Business Development team to liaise with senior stakeholders to win meetings.
• Organise travel for executive, business development, and international team members, with seamless connections and the best deals, to ensure effective sales trips and collaborative team engagements.
• Provide a first line of screening for all hiring candidates before they proceed to subsequent stages of hiring.
• Manage all human resource, payroll, accounting and reconciliation actions by engaging with staff, bookkeepers, and accountants.
• Support the team to work remotely locally and internationally, by owning the administrative actions, including office space, work spaces, and equipment.

Professional Skills

• Effective Communication: Demonstrate adeptness in both written and verbal communication. Craft persuasive emails to secure important outcomes such as meeting bookings, and employ convincing phone conversations to schedule crucial appointments.
• Information Synthesis and Prioritization: Display the ability to synthesize research findings and prioritize information effectively.
• Talent Spotting: Showcase a keen eye for talent. Evaluate candidates' values, skills, and experience to determine their suitability for specific roles within the organization.
• Detail-Oriented Acumen: Exhibit meticulous attention to detail in financial, HR and accounting matters. Ensure accuracy in numerical data, minimize costs, and adeptly identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Strategic Decision-Making: Highlight your capacity to assess multiple options and navigate through switching costs. Make informed decisions that align with organisational goals while considering potential challenges and benefits.

Professional Experiences

• Holds a bachelor's degree from a leading university
• You have 10+ years of experience in accounting, sales, operations and hiring
• Cross-Geography Logistics and Administration: Adept at organizing and streamlining logistics and administrative tasks for teams operating across diverse geographical locations. Demonstrated ability to ensure seamless operations and effective coordination despite geographical challenges.
• End-to-End Team Building: Demonstrated ability to assemble and nurture high-performing teams from recruitment stages to achieving management levels. Experience encompasses comprehensive team-building processes, including recruitment, training, and developing team members into managerial roles.
• Comprehensive Corporate Management: Proven proficiency in overseeing vital organizational functions, encompassing accounting, bookkeeping, HR, and payroll. Successfully managed and ensured the accuracy and efficiency of financial and human resources operations within the company.
• Multi-Zone Project and Personnel Management: Successful experience in orchestrating projects and managing personnel across multiple time zones. Demonstrated capability to lead teams, collaborate across diverse timeframes, and deliver exceptional results in a globally distributed work environment.

• A remote-friendly, flexible working culture; where you can work from any global location
• Learning allowances; because we don’t just have words on a website, we genuinely do what we say and provide educational opportunities to all (including the Cadmus team)
• A diverse and inclusive workplace where there are no barriers to anyone succeeding
• A surrounding team of mission-driven individuals who genuinely love what they do
• Mentoring and succession planning for your career
• Pats from Homer, our resident (and super cute) dog!

Cadmus is a remote-friendly company, and this role is open to candidates in Melbourne or remote from anywhere in Australia.

Hiring Process

Please apply online with your resume, and instead of a cover letter, we would love you to answer a few questions.

Our interview process consists of a recruiter phone screen, a hiring manager interview, a homework task and a panel interview. These will be completed in person or online (via Zoom).

While we review your application, get to know us by visiting cadmus.io/careers (complete our values quiz!) and following our social channels (Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter).

Inclusivity at Cadmus

At Cadmus, we hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our company stronger. We never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, or disability status. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for education, you will find a home at Cadmus.

If you need assistance or accommodations made due to a disability, please let us know.

INTERNAL ROLE ONLY

Exciting Opportunity available as the Front of House Team Support Officer

Do you have strong attention to detail? Do you have excellent understanding of current process documentation? Then look no further – this role is for YOU!

APPLY NOW and do not miss out!

Number of positions - 2

Start Date - February 12th and January 29th, 2024

Duration - 2 months

About The Opportunity

As a Team Support Officer, this role will see you as a subject matter expert, fielding & responding to questions from the team in timely and professional manner. Reporting to FOH Team Leader and working along to identify & deliver training needs across FOH for both new & existing employees.

The role plays a critical part in our endeavor to build a Centre of Excellence, where customers are treated with respect and are provided with accurate and timely information to their enquiries.

Key Responsibilities:

• To coach and guide CSRs to deliver a high quality of customer service
• To handle escalated calls from customer and resolve the issue at first point.
• Maintain work instructions and ensure that all manuals are kept up to date and assist in the communication and embedding of any changes.
• Assist the Contact Centre Team leaders to evaluate calls and provide coaching and feedback.
• To provide constructive feedback to Team leaders and CSRs
• Process and respond to complex requests received on behalf of our clients.
• Identifying skill gaps within the wider business and work with leaders to educate and reduce double handling within all Civica departments.
• Liaise with external stakeholders to continuously lift the standard of service provided.
• To liaise via email and verbally to mutually resolve escalated issues.
• Enter media and Victorian Ombudsman threats into the tracker to enable analysis of trends.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• In-depth knowledge of relevant FOH guidelines, processes, and performance standards.
• Highly proficient with CJS systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to follow policies and procedures.
• Well-developed investigative, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• To work as part of a team to ensure that service standards are met.
• Self-driven with proven ability to manage workload and time autonomously.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office applications knowledge

What Next?

If this sounds like a good match then please submit your Expression of Interest. Please provide a summary outlining your current role, duties and why you are interested in this opportunity. Please ensure you speak to your manager before applying to ensure this fits in with business requirements.You will be contacted Talent Acquisition Partner, to understand more about your application.

Applications close on Friday 19th January'2024.

• A unique career-defining opportunity to join and lead one of Melbourne’s most established, innovative and award-winning AU/NZ agencies
• Drive integrated earned-first communications including social and content
• Innovate and define our PR Agency of the Future strategy across corporate and consumer comms
• Collaborate on the Trans-Tasman Leadership Team working with the most talked about local and global brands
• Join a culture that embraces growth and diversity and with ambition that is Limited by Nothing

LOCATION: Melbourne

We are uniquely Thrive helping our people, brands and community to do just that.  We use the power of communications to help our people, partners and community to grow and be successful.

Born and bred in Melbourne, and with offices across AU & NZ, Thrive is a public relations industry powerhouse and for the first time in the company’s 23-year history, we are recruiting externally for a Business Director to lead our Melbourne team.

This is not your everyday opportunity. This is a chance to work directly with Thrive’s Executive and learn why we are Mumbrella PR Agency of the Year and B&T PR Agency of the Year 2022 and how we came to be awarded the Dan Wieden Titanium Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which celebrates game-changing creativity, for our work with The Monkeys for Tuvalu, ‘The First Digital Nation’.

This role is a career-defining opportunity to lead our Melbourne location as 2IC to the Executive Director, Melbourne. You will be supported by 25+ consultants as you lead client and team growth and retention while driving new business with the support of national specialist squads.  You will partner with our local and global corporate and consumer clients to devise their communications strategies while leaning into national resources to deliver creative and digital integration impacting our clients’ business goals.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated integrated comms Business Director who is well connected in Victoria with business connections and with the media and who can create new opportunities that take our agency to new heights. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in the PR industry, across both corporate and consumer PR and have solid social media and creative content experience. The person must demonstrate strategic thinking, business acumen and have strong leadership skills with proven capability to grow a client portfolio.

This role will help drive operational process excellence, ensuring key stages of projects are executed efficiently and within budget, with a strong commercial mindset, managing financial forecasting, profitability and team resourcing.

• Work across a diverse and high-profile  corporate and consumer client portfolio
• Develop and implement strategic plans to drive business growth and achieve financial
• Manage and develop client relationships to deliver client growth
• Identify new market opportunities and trends to stay ahead in the local PR landscape
• Play an active role in lead generation and business development efforts and the conversion of clients
• Devise and oversee the implementation of first-class strategies with their senior reports for clients
• Provide effective leadership to a talented team of PR and social professionals, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Mentor and develop team members, encouraging continuous learning and professional growth
• Oversight of the Melbourne office administration function.

About You

• Australian visa holder - will consider visa sponsorship for a stellar candidate
• Tertiary qualified 12+ years of agency experience in the PR industry
• Proven experience in a senior leadership role within a PR agency delivering integrated earned-first campaigns for global brands
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking
• Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated success in client relationship management and business development
• Ability to inspire and lead a team to achieve exceptional results
• Delivery of best practice multichannel storytelling with exceptional writing skills
• Experience in B2B and B2C storytelling
• Experience delivering in a fast-paced environment and displaying logical thinking, forward planning, and the ability to manage up and down
• An established network of relationships with media, influencers, suppliers and key stakeholders
• Excellent presentation skills
• Team time management and budget experience
• Technology skills (MAC & Google Drive savvy)
• Media measurement/evaluation skills

This is Thrive.

Culture is everything. It's a reason why we have a 100% return rate by working parents, have had consistent leadership for more than two decades, and continue to welcome Thrive 'boomerangs' back to the agency. Our team is made up of in-house media, creative and digital specialists who work across five locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Auckland delivering strategic communications services for brands.

Thrive values work-life integration including hybrid flexible working (currently Mondays and Fridays work-from-home) and delivers many benefits from wellbeing days and initiatives through to early knock-off Fridays. Thrive fosters & supports a work environment that is inclusive as well as diverse, where people can, and are encouraged to, be themselves. Every idea and perspective is welcomed and valued so that our service offering reflects our approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion both internally and externally.

Ready to make waves with us locally and globally?

Visit us here for more information - www.thrivepr.com.au.

If you value accountability, curiosity, integrity, collaboration and are passionate about what you do then our values are aligned. Please apply via LinkedIn or email a cover letter and resume to: [email protected].

All contact with Thrive will be treated confidentially. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Get to Know Us

Here at Centorrino Technologies, or CT as we like to call ourselves, we put a lot of effort into delivering the best customer experience of any managed ICT provider in Australia. We exist to empower our customers with a frustration free tech environment so they can concentrate on what’s important to their organisation.

We’re excited by the fact our team is continuing to expand. As we continue to grow, we’re on the hunt for a suitable candidate to join us as a Desktop Support Officer based at a client site.

The role:

As part of the role, you will be responsible for providing local end user support for the customers' technology environment which encompasses a combination of Microsoft Windows 10 Workstations, Apple Mac Devices, Chromebooks, Meeting Room Technology and Mobile Devices running both Android and iOS.

Responsibilities:

• Utilise your skills and passion for technology to solve technical issues on Windows, Apple Mac, Chromebooks, Android and iOS based devices supporting the operating systems, hardware and client side applications on these devices. Whilst we understand that you may not have had experience with all platforms, the successful candidate will be a fast learner who enjoys expanding their knowledge;
• Travel from site to site based on the schedule;
• Provide end users with training on how to better use their devices and assist them to learn something new;
• Be personable with end users developing a friendly bond with customers;
• Collaborate with your fellow colleagues to determine any processes which need improvement or can be handled more efficiently;
• Seek customer feedback on your performance and take an active approach in attempting to continuously improve these results;
• Identify problems or requests which don't have an existing process and collaborate with your peers to develop and implement one;

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Know your way around a computer and in particular Windows;
• Intune knowledge;
• Basic Networking;
• A solid understanding of how computers and associated peripherals work together;
• A fast learner with a eagerness to learn more;
• A person that enjoys a fast paced environment and helping others;

The role is based at a client site in Melbourne CBD and is a full-time position.

Monday to Friday - Full Time with and early start onsite.

When you join Centorrino Technologies, you know you are joining an organisation that is driven by our values and innovation. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we embrace our individual talents, and our differences. We encourage applications from people of all ages, disabilities, LGBTQI, Aboriginal people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.