So, why Optus?
At Optus, we don’t sit back and let the future happen to us - we’re out there making it. By expanding into new technology and relentlessly improving every day, we’re creating a better tomorrow for all Australians. We believe in the strength of a vibrant, diverse and inclusive workforce where backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people help us innovate and create strong connections with our customers.
About the role
As a Strategic Alliance Manager within the Optus Enterprise Strategy team, you will be responsible for driving business value, revenue and margin growth via our key focus partner Cisco. We have an established Partnership program with major vendors, tactical partners and start-ups; and your role will be to focus on improving strategic partner deliverables in support of growth objectives being incremental market share with Cisco. This is an important role in coordinating and aligning functions across various teams that build new capability and Cisco products that are sold in market, driving peering and alignment across both Optus and the strategic partner organisations to deliver product roadmaps and other pivotal initiatives.
Your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to
About you
Your significant experience in navigating complex and matrixed organisations is pivotal in this role, as is the ability to build and maintain effective C level relationships within Cisco. Your experience in a similar role will assist to cultivate your success in planning and performing in all aspects of the partnership.
To be successful for this role, you must possess:
As a provider of essential services across Australia, Optus has a critical role in the community through keeping our customers connected to the people they love and the things that matter. It is also our priority to ensure we provide our amazing people and our customers with a healthy and safe workplace environment. In light of the significant risks posed by COVID-19, Optus expects all workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and will require vaccination for certain roles as well as access to Optus workplaces. Please speak to us if you have any questions about this policy or how it impacts you, including any concerns you might have about meeting this requirement.
Optus is a place where we let you do you. Whether you’ll be working in our corporate offices or in a retail store, we're a highly collaborative workplace, and offer a range of perks such as:
We understand that flexibility means different things to different people. We're proud to offer a variety of options to work in different ways, such as our Blended Ways of Working and job share. Our Blended Ways of Working lets our people work across home and our offices. Please talk to us about how we can make this role work for you.
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Please no recruitment agencies, we’ll be managing this role in-house. Any resumes submitted outside of our process will be deemed the sole property of Optus.
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