Location of Job: Sydney, NSW

Status: Full-Time position (38 hours/week)

• Engaging with clients to analyze organizational structures, methods, and procedures related to in-store execution, identifying inefficiencies and areas for improvement
• Conducting comprehensive operational reviews of client systems and procedures to evaluate organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity.
• Recommending solutions to improve organizational efficiency and in-store execution processes based on data analysis and industry benchmarks.
• Performing benchmark studies to ensure proposed solutions align with industry standards.
• Translating client requirements into actionable shopper surveys for data collection.
• Analyzing and evaluating the collected in-store data to derive insights and guide decision-making.
• Drafting and presenting detailed proposals to revise organizational structures, workflows, and in-store execution methods to resolve inefficiencies.
• Delivering findings and solutions to clients using dashboards, presentations, infographics, and other documentation formats.
• Advising clients on implementing more efficient organizational processes and in-store execution practices to address specific challenges.
• Assisting in implementing approved recommendations by issuing revised instructions and updating procedures as necessary. 

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)

This is an exciting time to join Datacom as we look to grow our ServiceNow practice in Australia. As a ServiceNow- Senior Functional Consultant, you’ll be the conduit between the client’s business users, stakeholders and the implementation teams. This is a challenging and rewarding role to grow your existing analysis, design, communication and diplomatic abilities. You’ll be comfortable in front of clients at all levels as you’ll be leading workshops, eliciting requirements, crafting solutions and articulating Workday concepts.

Our offices are based in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth Melbourne 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

At the moment, as a ServiceNow - Senior Functional Consultant, you will be across multiple projects with high profile clients.

You will lead ServiceNow workstreams for multiple clients, from requirements gathering, design, configuration and support activities. You will then lead testing activities, knowledge transfer sessions and user training.

The successful candidate for this role will be seen as an expert in their field and will have demonstrated experience and success in a similar, client facing role.

Additionally, we’re looking for the following -

• Strong ServiceNow technical knowledge and configuration skills
• TSM specialisation - understanding and experience of ITIL best practice, CMDB, CSDM, Service Design and SIAM
• Knowledge and certification of any other modules
• Ability to configure Catalogue Items, and design/brand the Employee Service Centre to medium complexity
• Previous implementation project experience
• ServiceNow Functional Certifications and CSA desirable
• Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills
  

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.

The Consultant, Client Success is a client-facing, individual contributor role serving as a Client Success subject matter expert. The Consultant enables new client capabilities, promotes product adoption and optimizes client performance. The role requires a high level of technical proficiency to succeed by supporting clients with complex problems and optimization opportunities.

We are looking for a Client Success Consultant to join the Client Services team for a 6-month fixed term contract. The Contract is due to end on the 30th Aoril 2025.

This role is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of Visas Client Success transformation by partnering closely with Visa clients to maximize their benefits realization and value from Visa products through optimizing their performance. Working in conjunction with Account Team members from Client Services, Sales and Product, you will proactively drive Client Success outcomes in alignment with Visas business agenda as detailed in the Sales Account Plan. The individual will also define and deploy client support and service implementation strategies, including automated tools and capabilities to enhance the client experience, that drive value for our clients and support Visas strategy.

This role serves as a functional specialist, located in Sydney Melbourne Australia and reporting to Renet Snyman, Director Client Services.

Responsibilities include

• Support and or oversee the implementation of new Visa products purchased by Clients by coordinating key Client and Visa teams to expedite implementation readiness activities and steer Client toward faster time to value and maximized adoption of deployed products.
• Ensure Client operational goals and success metrics for their product landscape is understood.
• Foster and sustain trusted partnerships with internal Account Team members by aligning on the forward-looking relationship strategy and optimization opportunities and executing against Client Success Plans.
• Drive and deliver initiatives to improve client adoption of Visa products and use of Visa s self-service tools.
• Stay current with the latest payment processing trends, Visa solutions and technologies to provide a good Client experience and generate new sales leads as solutions to identified client pain points.
• Establish relationships with Client Services and other cross-functional teams within Visa to deliver subject matter expertise consultation as needed to optimize client performance.
• Provide subject matter expertise and consultation to Visa clients by leveraging insights and understanding of their local market and product needs to continually enhance the Client experience.
• Support periodic operational reviews with Clients and Visa stakeholders, incorporating input, comparison and client progress against product metrics.
• Proactively identify and drive opportunities to optimize client performance by monitoring client health.

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.

As a Technical Consultant, you will be the primary point of contact for customers and internal team members. The role will require a strong technical ability as well as strong client facing skills. Some projects will require you to lead standard solution implementations, managing what has been planned, as well as handling issues, changes, and identifying and mitigating risks for successful project implementations.

You will lead the documentation of program scope and requirements, and work alongside a project manager to development a project plan and timeline for the program. Throughout the implementation you establish and manage customer and internal expectations and coordinate project activities and resources to deliver customer programs on time and in-scope. You will also be responsible for the technical design, solution development, and postimplementation consulting and administration of solutions and programs on the Forsta platforms.

When necessary, you will work with the Solution Architects and Product Management teams for solutions that require development of custom components.

You’ll also be responsible for Post-implementation activities that include on-going technical expertise and support of accounts; building relationships with client business and technical users,  and conducting platform training sessions.

This role will require and challenge you to:

• Collaborate with customer and internal team to collect and document the program requirements.
• Assist in the development of the project plan and schedule; may work under the guidance of senior team members.
• Provide project governance; control the project plan and manage the change request process.
• Identify project risks and develop mitigation plans; may work under the guidance of senior team members.
• Lead collaboration efforts to resolve program issues as they arise
• Maintain up to date project documentation.
• Act as the technical point of contact with the customer and other Forsta project team members.
• Develop technical specifications.
• Lead the development and deployment process working with the program management team.
• Adhere to Forsta and customer’s processes in place for project governance and delivery.
• Work with clients to integrate Forsta technologies into their business applications.
• Manage and conduct solutions QA.
• Assist with client UAT.
• Describe solutions to clients on how to integrate Forsta into their business.
• Provide Forsta platform training and knowledge transfer.
• Work with the Pre-Sales team and Solution Architects for development and delivery of technical presentations in-person or online.
• Report to Director or Senior Director, Technical Delivery.
• For project development activities report to the assigned Program/Project Manager.
• Follow company security and privacy policies and related procedures, and ensure proper safeguarding of information and data made accessible to you.
• Travel approximately 20% of the time.