Total 3,014 Senior Executive job vacancies in West Perth, Western Australia

We’re an award-winning business outsourcer providing offshore and onshore staffing solutions that are Safe, Flexible and Innovative for our global clients. 

As an Acquire BPO employee, your role is vital in achieving and exceeding individual and team targets that support company objectives, while building and maintaining customer relationships. You’re also responsible for complying with and enforcing procedures aligned with our information security policies.

As a values-led organisation, we expect all our team members to exemplify our four values of Collaboration, Impact, Passion and Transparency.       

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR ROLE:

As the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) this position provides high level executive and personal support to our founder and CEO and at times other executives with extensive travel obligations and administrative support.  You will be a proactive problem solver with exceptional communication and organizational skills and a meticulous attention to detail. You will be supporting by organizing and maintaining schedules and assisting by performing a variety of tasks across both personal and business areas. The ideal person is highly self-motivated, professional and capable of managing their workload and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced corporate environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage business and personal schedules of the CEO, including proactive diary management, arranging and scheduling appointments, agendas, calls, travel and accommodation arrangements.

• Calendar management, scheduling of meetings, assisting with preparation prior to meetings and managing travel itineraries

• Management of personal invoices, reconciliations and other items as directed

• Maintain professional and strict confidentiality with all materials and exercise discretion when interfacing with the business

• Act as the point of contact between the executive and internal and external  individuals

• Precise note and minute recording for meetings when required

• Maintain and refine internal processes that support the CEO both business and personal tasks

• Develop and sustain a level of professionalism among staff and clientele

• Preparation of internal and external corporate documents

• Organize and plan events as required

• Greet and welcome guests when they arrive at the office

• Arrange catering for meetings and events

• Other personal and business tasks as requested

A BIT ABOUT YOU

• 5+ years’ experience as an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant or similar role

• High level of organisational, and time management skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Discretion and ability to handle sensitive information confidentiality

• Ability to manage multiple tasks at once and prioritize accordingly

• Punctual and well-presented with friendly disposition

• Potential overseas and interstate travel to the companies offices that are located across Australia, United States, Philippines and the Dominican Republic

WHAT WE VALUE

We’re proud of our diverse global team, all working together and adhering to these common values:

• Collaboration: Brilliant jerks can be brilliant elsewhere.

• Impact: Do, get it done, create impact.

• Passion: Be positive, bring passion and energy.

• Transparency: A transparent team can help each with other.

Acquire BPO is a business outsourcer with a vision is to connect organisations to skilled people globally. Our mission is to be the partner of choice for corporate growth, by enabling businesses to leverage the best global resources at the right price.

I have read and understood this Position Description and am happy to abide by it while employed by Acquire BPO.

Join the A-Team and experience the A-Life!

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

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Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation.  We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day.  This means the majority of your daily, digital interactions in your world, whether streaming video, using your voice A.I, video or voice calls to a friend or loved one – are enabled by Ciena technologies. 

Blue Planet, the Software division of Ciena, provides market-leading, vendor neutral, intelligent automation software and specialized professional services to help clients modernize their IT and network operations. Driven by policy and AI-based insights, Blue Planet delivers the closed-loop automation tools needed to align IT and networking processes—critical to facilitating digital transformation and an adaptive network.  If you want to be part of the company that delivers these outcomes, then the Blue Planet division of Ciena is the place to be. (Visit www.blueplanet.com.)  

Your Role  

You will be responsible for the insertion of our solution portfolio and growth of our business by winning transformational business opportunities across communication service provider customers in our ANZ region with particular focus on our most strategic tier 1 customers in the territory. You will establish and nurture key business relationships at all levels and particularly with C-suite stakeholders and carry a sales target which will be retired through your personal sales success and ability to win deals. You will work closely with fulfilment partners where necessary and consult with our mainstream Ciena account team but drive your own sales and engagement strategy to ensure the integrity of the Blue Planet brand is maintained and recognized as a value-based brand to deliver vendor neutral, multi-domain and multi-layer automated service operations to the telco service provider. You will report to the head of the Blue Planet sales & business development team for the international sales region and manage a dispersed virtual team of contributors to secure your objectives. This role involves extensive travel both to customer premises and other Ciena locations at sometimes short notice.

Your Responsibilities

• Achieve annual sales targets and grow Blue Planet’s solution footprint in customer organizations
• Stringently qualify newly identified sales opportunity in both existing and new customers and present your recommendations to the Blueplanet Snr leadership team on request using established tools, templates and methodologies.
• Establish, maintain, and develop critical business relationships with key business, technical and operational stakeholders at all levels including C-suite contacts in your customer organization.
• Develop, document, and execute a business development strategy that promotes Blue Planet capabilities and solutions, aligns to customer strategy, and secures new and continued sales growth through progressive wins.
• Identify and work closely with Blueplanet technical and fulfilment partners to achieve common objectives in your customer base and provide a force multiplier effect to build the opportunity pipeline.
• Work closely to achieve your goals and foster good working relationships with other agencies in Ciena and Blue Planet including product management & engineering, solution architecture, marketing, sales, and commercial management.
• Maintain, grow and document a sales and opportunity pipeline commensurate with sales targets and manage it effectively in Salesforce.com.  Provide accurate sales forecasting and reporting on a periodic basis
• Lead a virtual team of contributors in the response to customer RFx documentation or unsolicited proposals and ensure on time quality delivery to promote greatest chance of success.
• Create compelling and differentiated commercial frameworks and pricing strategies in consultation with our sales operations, commercial management & finance organization that align to customer expectations and create ongoing, profitable repeat business opportunity.
• Work closely with our PLM, engineering and delivery organization to ensure a joined-up approach to ensure customer success at all levels.
• Maintain high levels of training and awareness of market developments, customer strategies and Blue Planet portfolio enhancements.

About You:

You will have already demonstrated your ability to succeed in similar organizations and have an impressive track record that illustrates your competence in highly complex, high value transformational projects. You will have a solid technical understanding and an ability to translate the technical into business value propositions that align to your customers vision and strategic aims whilst being able to robustly qualify and identify the difference between real opportunities and technical science projects. You will be able to motivate a team of contributors to work with you to achieve your goals and objectives and above all you will be charismatic, fun to work with and ready to roll your sleeves up to work hard to build on our success so far and have a willingness to take on responsibility and accountability for your own objectives.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Excellent written and spoken English with demonstrably sound presentation and communication skills.
• 10/15 Years+ experience in selling complex operational systems and services with evidence of demonstrable success in winning high value deals.
• Sound working knowledge of OSS platforms and solutions including competence in Orchestration, Assurance, and Inventory management.
• Solid foundation of established and referenceable relationship at all levels including C-suite preferred in your designated customer.
• Solid working knowledge of MS office applications with an ability to create basic working commercial models in MS Excel and translate into customer TCO templates
• BSc degree qualification at 2:1 or above in computing science or engineering disciplines is desirable.