Technology Engagement Partner

Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams, appreciate progressive industries, and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Job Description

About The Role

The Technology Engagement Partner serves as a trusted partner with the business stakeholders (Management & working level) and responsible for early engagement, advisory and execution planning of multiple key technology initiatives in Asia-Pacific (APAC). As a concierge to technology, the Technology Engagement Partner sits within the Technology Advisory team and works across multi-functional teams to engage, drive and bring the right teams and skills to the table to deliver success.

We are looking for a self-starter individual contributor who can demonstrate great problem-solving leadership, tolerate ambiguity and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. To succeed in this role, you will be required to provide sound judgment under pressure. You have a strong background working in technology environments and have a sound understanding of technical concepts or you are from a technical background, meticulous attention to detail, and outstanding organizational and analytical skills.

The ideal candidate will have a sharp business mind, a proven ability to strategize & provide sound judgment and assess the needs of partners accordingly. As a trusted advisor, you will lead the engagement, seek for continuous improvements, and include the right technology functions along the way and apply your natural leadership to drive towards success. You are comfortable in rolling up your sleeves and jump in to lead and solve the problem directly as required. Ultimately, you are motivated by the desire to optimize productivity and nurture program success from inception to completion.

The Technology Engagement Partner will collaborate with the Head of Technology Advisory.

Responsibilities

• Own engagements and serves as a trusted technology partner to the business for specific domain
• Connecting, coordinate, collaborate and influence multi-functional teams to work closely with the business at early stage of engagements on ideation, assessment and formation of initiatives.
• Working together with the Technology Advisory team, own the problem and drive towards solution to ensure success of the technology strategy and vision
• Identify issues, risks, dependencies, and drive towards resolution.
• Work in concert with architecture, engineer, risk, security and ensuring relevant technology teams are engaged to meet objectives and requirements
• Lead others through change, including leaders, whilst applying SEEK’s change principles to deliver effective organizational change.
• Initiate and drive continuous improvement on delivering business’ technological demands by finding opportunities to improve between business and tech teams.
• Collaborate and report to senior partners to ensure governance and reporting needs are satisfied with concise communication and transparency regarding issues and decisions.
• Create and maintain an environment which enables impactful team cultures that embraces diversity, delivery, ownership, teamwork, learning and continuous improvement
• Analysing, implementing, and managing changes and interventions to ensure goals are achieved.
• Break down complex requirements into clearly documented stories.
• Contribute to fostering a culture of information exchange within the organization.

Qualifications

Essential skills and Experience

• Candidate should have an experience in holding a Managerial position
• Prior experience in (IT / digital) management consulting, portfolio demand management, project management, business architecture.
• Highly developed partner management and communication skills to effectively deliver and report on progress, risks, issues, capacity, and costs
• Demonstrated ability to quickly break down a problem and make or influence decisions, supported by key data points whilst considering the balance of competing business, end user and technical priorities
• Ability to collaborate, negotiate and influence with various partners from the business to engineering teams across the organisations, with potentially conflicting business requirements, to define a clear strategy which best serves the overall APAC strategy
• Collaborating across boundaries, proven experience in engaging and motivating multi-functional teams
• Commercial savvy, understanding how the business operations work
• Familiarity with different culture norms and practises, particularly within APAC
• Digital transformation experience will be highly desirable

Personal Skills:

• Strong EQ and an empathetic communication style that fosters collaboration and confidence. Builds trust, safety, and inclusion in teams.
• Clear communicator who can manage partner expectations, facilitate groups and resolve conflicts.
• Identifies and mitigates risk.
• Strong negotiation, organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritization abilities with excellent attention to detail.

Technical / Hard Skills:

• Business Architecture, Strategy Planning, Business Process Management
• Business Analysis – strong ability to analyse and present data to support business decisions
• Project Management, Change Management
• Tertiary qualifications in relevant field (Computer Science, MBA etc) will be ideal
• Certifications in either TOGAF, BITAF and / or BPMN will be an added advantage

Additional Information

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Casual dress – every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.