Reporting directly to the Front Office Manager, with regular access to the Hotel Manager your primary responsibility is ensuring a high level of guest service at all times across the hotel.

As Night Manager, your tasks and responsibilities will consist of, but are not limited to the following:

• Assist with the management of all operational departments 
• Management of roster, costings and forecasting
• Professional development of Front Office All Rounders, Night Audit and Night Supervisor team to ensure strong succession planning
• Involvement in and management of KPI's for Front Office & guest satisfaction
• Process and assist with check-in, check-out of guests, ensuring all procedures are adhered too.
• Assist in all areas of the hotel to eliminate potential issues including Food & Beverage operations
• Immediately attending to guest requests, and leading by example to other members of the team by being proactive and resourceful.
• Responsibility for the health and safety of all patrons, guests and staff members.
• Overseeing of whole guest experience from Reservation through to departure.

Your ability to ‘surprise’ our guests with your natural bright and bubbly customer service style is what sets you apart from the rest. You are naturally a confident person who is able to approach people and initiate conversation.

You are able to manage your time and can handle juggling numerous tasks at once.

Position: Senior Product Manager (Technology Consulting, Business Analysis)
Location: Sydney, Australia
WorkStyle: Sydney Hybrid based
Simple Machines. Data Engineered to Life™

Simple Machines is a leading independent boutique technology firm with a global presence, including teams in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and New Zealand. We specialise in creating technology solutions at the intersection of data, AI, machine learning, data engineering, and software engineering. Our mission is to help enterprises, technology companies, and governments better connect with and understand their organisations, their people, their customers, and citizens. We are a team of creative engineers and technologists dedicated to unleashing the potential of data in new and impactful ways. We design and build bespoke data platforms and unique software products, create and deploy intelligent systems, and bring engineering expertise to life by transforming data into actionable insights and tangible outcomes.

About You

We are looking for a consultant-minded individual who is passionate about working closely with clients to solve complex problems and lead them on a journey from discovery to technical implementation. You have a knack for understanding client needs and delivering market-leading solutions and have worked in Technology Consulting | Business Analysis | Software Development

You will love and excel in this role if you:

• Have a strong background in Technology Consulting, played a Senior Manager role within a top-tier consulting company.
• Have a refined understanding of how modern software is built and delivered (tools, methodologies, roles, common challenges etc.)
• A demonstrated knowledge of different methods and tools that help you to perform analysis, testing, product management and delivery in a range of environment
• Know how to effectively communicate information between people at all levels of the business, in written and verbal form
• Have a passion for accruing knowledge, and using that knowledge to continuously improve yourself and the team’s performance
• Personal interest in best practice and trends of the technology industry, with the ability to apply these to your day-to-day work
• A relationship builder by nature, and someone who can thrive in new teams and new situations
• A proactive person who knows what needs to be done, how to approach it, and how to influence others to move things forward
• An ambitious person who is excited about the prospect of joining a small, close-knit ANZ team of experts and helping it to grow

The Exciting Part

Simple Machines is not your average consultancy or software engineering firm. Our team is comprised of inspiring industry leaders in Consulting, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Our projects, for a global client base, are data-focused and drive real change.

About the Role

We are looking for someone to join our close-knit team of experts to help deliver our client engagements as we scale our ANZ business. If you excel in client facing roles, have a deep understanding of how modern software is built and delivered, and have a passion for technology then we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s a brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:

Drive the engagement

• Understand each clients’ unique business needs, the ‘why’ behind each project and develop solutions that will fulfil each clients’ success criteria
• Act as a translator between business teams and technology delivery
• Develop domain expertise unique to each engagement

Feed the engineering team

• Provide high quality written requirements, acceptance criteria, feature overviews, test cases and other artefacts for the team to work from
• Run effective meetings with team and stakeholders

Drive the team’s direction

• Clearly articulate the business needs and work with the tech team to translate these into technical requirements
• Persuade the client and the SM team on what should be done and why

Increase the team’s speed

• Understand and anticipate dependencies in software delivery
• Enable decision making through excellent communication

Assure the team’s focus

• Protect the engineering team from day to day ‘noise’
• Embed and optimise processes to handle our scope of work and new demand

Assure SM’s position with the client

• Build and nurture relationships with clients at all levels
• Help to manage SM’s delivery risk

Reporting to the Director of Sales & Marketing, we are currently seeking a Business Development Manager to join our dynamic team. This role is suitable for a vibrant sales professional who enjoys working across MICE/GROUPS/ENTERTAINMENT.

What is the role all about:

• Responsible for securing new business and growing market share from existing accounts across MICE, GROUPS & ENTERTAINMENT clients.
• Collaborate with the Director of Sales - MICE a sales plan that includes proactive initiatives to achieve business objectives and budgeted profits for the hotel for Meetings & Events
• Proactively create a sales plan that includes proactive initiatives to achieve business objectives and budgeted profits for the hotel for Entertainment & Groups
• Taking a proactive and innovative approach to acquiring new business.
• Monitor industry trends, competitive landscape, and market developments to identify opportunities for growth
• Represent the property at conferences, tradeshows, networking events, familiarisations, sales missions and on-site inspections
• Prepare and present regular reports on sales activities and results to Director of Sales and Marketing

• Work closely with the Sales & Marketing teams to ensure processes and productivity are continually improved to reach and exceed sales targets
• Work with internal stakeholders to over-achieve on budgeted revenue.
• Travel interstate to visit clients and attend tradeshows as required