Director - Public Sector

Datacom; Wellington; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Social events

Chill-out spaces

Remote working

Flexi-hours

Professional development

Job summary

Datacom seeks a Director – Public Sector (NZ) to lead its strategic growth across the Wellington public sector, building trusted executive relationships and positioning Datacom as a long-term partner to Government. You will drive AI adoption, resilience, digital transformation, and future-ready public services within NZ.

Operating at the highest levels, you will unite teams to deliver a coordinated, system-level approach and identify opportunities across government portfolios, shaping strategy

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in executive leadership, public sector strategy, government relations, or senior public sector sales leadership.
• Strong understanding of New Zealand Government structures, priorities, and procurement frameworks.
• Proven success leading strategic account growth and executive customer engagement within the public sector.
• Strong commercial acumen and experience delivering sustainable growth outcomes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to translate complex technology and transformation initiatives into meaningful public sector outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Leading strategic growth across Wellington Public Sector customers and opportunities.
• Building executive relationships and driving a Whole-of-Government engagement approach.
• Developing account strategies aligned to government priorities across AI, resilience, and digital transformation.
• Leading Datacom’s approach to GDDA, AoG, and strategic procurement opportunities.
• Translating government policy and market signals into actionable growth strategies.
• Providing leadership across strategic pursuits and cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Positioning Datacom as a trusted advisor through executive engagement and thought leadership.
• Supporting strong commercial outcomes through strategic account planning and governance.

Skills

Executive leadership

Public sector strategy

Government relations

Strategic account growth

Stakeholder management

Job description

Our Why

At Datacom, we partner with organisations to solve complex challenges through technology, innovation, and deep industryexpertise. Across Australia and New Zealand, we help customers modernise,transform, and deliver services that create real impact for businesses, governments, and communities.

About the Role (your why)

This is a rare opportunity to shape how technology, policy, and public value intersect across New Zealand Government.

As Director – Public Sector (NZ), you will lead Datacom’s strategic growth agenda across the Wellington Public Sector market, building trusted executive relationships and positioning Datacom as a long-term strategic partner to Government.You’llplaya central rolein helping agencies navigate complex digitaltransformation priorities across AI adoption, resilience, modernisation, and future-ready public services.

Operating at the highest levels of customer engagement, you will unite teams across Datacom to deliver a coordinated Whole‑of‑Government approach built on deep partnership to create meaningful, system‑level outcomes for New Zealand.

This role combines strategic leadership, commercial accountability, government engagement, and market influence.You’llwork closely with senior executives, market leaders, Lines of Business, and public sector stakeholders toidentifyemerging opportunities, shape strategic direction, and drive sustainable growth across key government portfolios.

You’llalso help elevate Datacom’s voice within the public sector ecosystem through thought leadership, executive engagement, and participation in conversations shaping the future of digital government in New Zealand.

What you'll do

As Director – Public Sector (NZ), you will be focused on:

• Leading strategic growth across Wellington Public Sector customers and opportunities.
• Building executive relationships and driving a Whole-of-Government engagement approach.
• Developing account strategies aligned to government priorities across AI, resilience, and digitaltransformation.
• Leading Datacom’s approach to GDDA,AoG, and strategic procurement opportunities.
• Translating government policy and market signals into actionable growth strategies.
• Providing leadership across strategic pursuits and cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Positioning Datacom as a trusted advisor through executive engagement and thought leadership.
• Supporting strong commercial outcomes through strategic account planning and governance.

We area pretty agilecompany, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.

What you'll bring

Required experience:

• Extensive experience in executive leadership, public sector strategy, government relations, or senior public sector sales leadership.
• Strong understanding of New Zealand Government structures, priorities, and procurement frameworks.
• Proven success leading strategic account growth and executive customer engagement within the public sector.
• Strong commercial acumen and experience delivering sustainable growth outcomes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to translate complex technology and transformation initiatives into meaningful public sector outcomes.

Nice to have:

• Experience within a Tier 2 Service Provider environment.
• Existing senior relationships across the New Zealand public sector landscape.
• Understanding of emerging government priorities across AI, cyber resilience, and digital transformation.

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-hoursand professional development courses to name a few.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on some of New Zealand’s most significant digital transformation initiatives while building meaningful partnerships that influence outcomes at a national level.

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, and our people feel supported.