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Sydney

Business Development Manager

The National market leader in Christmas and All Year Round Experiences requires an experienced, organised and enthusiastic Business Development Manager to join their team.

Core Competencies:
  • Excellent communicator with superb presentation and influencing skills
  • Strong business and commercial acumen
  • Creative flair and design awareness
  • Marketing and strategic skills
  • Exceptional negotiation and communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Customer centric and ability to build strong and long-lasting customer relationships. Previous experience in serving high end client/s is highly regarded
  • Commitment to delivering a high level of customer service
Key Requirements:
  • Proactively source new business opportunities across Australia and New Zealand
  • Cold call as appropriate to ensure a robust pipeline of opportunities
  • Build strong relationships with key decision makers across the Shopping Centre industry, commercial property venues and councils
  • Identify potential clients, and the decision makers within the organization
  • Develop sponsorship / brand integration opportunities for our Experiences
  • Liaise, support, and effectively collaborate with internal colleagues to meet and exceed customer needs
Sydney

Bespoke Production Manager

Reporting directly to the Production Director, in a fast paced production team. This is a unique and exciting opportunity. Working with high-end clients nationally, this role offers a great environment, plenty of variety and good prospects. The position is based in the Sydney head office and is a full-time role.

Your overall responsibility will be to manage the Production of a select number of key projects and ensure they are delivered beyond our client’s expectations. Each project needs to meet safety and engineering guidelines plus achieve budget and timeline parameters.

A trade background in construction/metal fabrication industry is considered advantageous.

This is a contract role however has potential to transform into a full-time opportunity.

Core Competencies:
  • Excellent level of Production experience in the event / entertainment / exhibition / construction industry
  • Superior knowledge of construction for temporary and permanent installations in public spaces
  • A hands-on understanding of how jobs get built / assembled with safety as your number one priority
  • Have worked closely with logistics to understand and achieve timelines
  • Well-developed interpersonal skills allied to the ability to form quality business relationships and relate well at all levels.
  • Flexible with regards to work hours during our peak season (October – January)
Key Requirements:
  • Work closely with the Creative Department to bring concepts to life.
  • Ensure the correct translation of the creative concept to the manufacturer.
  • Communicate with suppliers and conduct factory visits when possible.
  • Generate prototypes from renders with minimal working drawings.
  • Source and engage a pool of contract production houses to facilitate manufacture in Australia
  • A high awareness of WH&S and the engineering process is essential.
Sydney

Industrial Designer

We are looking for an experienced industrial designer to join our agile but ambitious creative team in a full-time capacity, working from our Botany headquarters. The candidate will be an accomplished, qualified industrial designer with at least 8 years’ experience in delivering large scale projects from concept through to delivery.

Core Competencies:
  • Proven record of accomplishment within a relevant creative team
  • Strong background in Industrial design and delivering concepts
  • Ideally, have a solid in-depth understanding and experience working within one or more of the following business industries: large-scale events, exhibition design, Hospitality design, Experiential environments or the business of Christmas Experiences
  • Extremely organised with a high attention to detail and can produce high quality work under tight deadlines and thrive in a fast-paced and fun workplace
  • Flexible with regard to work hours throughout the year, especially during the busy October – December period
Key Requirements:
  • Solidworks & Keyshot is a must as well as skills using photoshop & illustrator
  • Contribute and add value to Christmas installations & environments that deliver JOY to our clients’ communities
  • Take on major projects as the design lead, from leading conceptual development, to managing modelling, specification and technical outputs
  • Support other design leads and the greater team on research methodologies and/or design precedents for new briefs
  • Produce block/concept/sketch models of the design vision during conceptual stages, in order to bring client briefs to life
  • Produce detailed production drawings and specification packs of our design solutions ready for manufacture
  • Produce 3D renders of the design solution for client concept presentations
  • A thorough understanding of manufacturing processes and techniques with the ability to 3D model for manufacture (DMF)
Sydney

Purchasing Coordinator

Chas Clarkson has an opportunity to join our Production team and experience a vibrant working environment. The role is multifaceted due to the seasonal nature of the Christmas & All-Year-Round large scale activations. Chas Clarkson is a national organisation with a Head Office based in Mascot, and State offices in Melbourne and Brisbane.

Core Competencies:
  • Strong English communication skills required
  • International trade experience required
  • Highly organised with excellent planning and administration skills
  • Experience with Sage Evolution software or similar
  • Good level of experience within the purchasing /buying field
Key Requirements:
  • Formulation of Purchase orders with our Local and Overseas suppliers
  • Acquiring quotations from Local and Overseas suppliers
  • Product specifications and data entry into inventory system
  • Update product costs in the inventory system
  • Administration of Fleet Vehicle accounts
  • General office administration duties
  • Supplier Liaison and relationship maintenance
  • Annually you will assist the administration of the stocktake and inventory levels
  • Supplier negotiation on annual and individual pricing

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Please complete all fields, including the position that you are applying for. Be sure to upload your CV and either a Cover Letter or things we need to know in Your Message. We will be in touch if we require more information or to proceed to interview. Best of luck!