Practice Manager - Data & Analytics

Datacom; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT professional services is seeking a strategic leader to drive growth and innovation in their Digital Engineering division. This role involves leading a team of Data & Analytics consultants, managing sales strategies, and ensuring commercial sustainability. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with strong commercial awareness, fostering a culture of success and collaboration. With a focus on modern data platforms, this position offers exciting challenges and opportunities for professional growth in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Social Events

Chill-out Spaces

Remote Working

Flexi-Hours

Professional Development Courses

Qualifications

• Extensive technical experience in data and analytics.
• Experience in leading sales initiatives and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Data & Analytics consultants.
• Create and manage sales strategies and product offerings.
• Define and execute a growth strategy for Modern Application services.

Skills

Leadership

Sales

Technical Expertise

Collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft

Databricks

Job description

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

This strategic role within Datacom is pivotal in driving growth, innovation, and commercial success for our market propositions. As part of the Digital Engineering division, you will lead a team of Data & Analytics consultants specializing in our modern data platform (Snowflake, Microsoft, and Databricks), advanced analytics, and data governance capabilities.

Leveraging your extensive technical experience and ability to lead sales initiatives, you will design and develop relevant sales propositions that address our customers' business challenges. This role involves ensuring commercial sustainability and practice growth, which includes creating and managing sales strategies and product offerings to meet client and market demands.

You will be responsible for growing a high-performing team, combining your deep technical expertise with strong commercial awareness to craft, position, and sell a wide range of data-centric services. A collaborative approach is essential, as you will work closely with our internal sales and technical teams, our clients, and their customers.

What you'll do (Your Why):

• Team Leadership: Define and execute the capability plan to create a culture of success, including team growth, performance, and development
• Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance and technical leadership on the development of cloud solutions and cloud-native development
• Sales: Articulate and evangelise the Modern Application development value proposition across Sales, Service, and Marketing to internal stakeholders, customers, and the wider market
• Strategic direction: Consult with the wider business to define and execute a growth strategy for the Modern Application services business across Wellington and wider markets
• Commercial and financial management: Create and manage the operational budget, including month-end processes, invoicing, and reporting
• Partner Engagement: Lead strategic planning around opportunity and product roadmaps to ensure effective collaboration with our partners

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We 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. 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 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, and our people feel supported.