Looking for an experienced Demand Manager in Sydney to work with the supply chain team in a multinational furniture company

Looking for an experienced Demand Manager in Sydney to work with the supply chain team in a multinational furniture company

STATUS: This Position Is No Longer Available

Transport / Logistics / Drivers / Planning

Permanent / Full Time

Position : Demand Manager

Location : Sydney

The Company  
An international company that specialises in the production of functional furniture fittings. The company’s main product groups are lift mechanisms, hinges and drawer systems for furniture – in particular, kitchen furniture.
Our client boasts a great company culture that focuses on its employees.

The Position
An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Demand Manager to join our client’s team in Sydney. As the Demand Manager you will work closely with the client company’s supply chain team and will lead the forecasting and demand planning functions. The Demand Manager is also responsible for delivering an accurate demand plan to meet customer requirements and optimum inventory levels.

The Role:
Administration

  • Perform general administration duties as required within the role.
  • Maintain various files, records and documents for the purpose of logistics activities.
  • Effectively communicate with participants and ensure proper meeting organisation. Follow up on required actions.

Planning

  • Working with various stakeholders at the local, regional, and global level, lead the forecasting process for the company, ensuring business goals are met.
  • Close collaboration with BAU, distributors, salespeople, marketing and other stakeholders to gather information on events that could affect demand, such as promotions and production delays.
  • Liaise, discuss and plan with the Supply Chain Manager and relevant Sales Manager/s on stock management requirements to meet expected customer demand.
  • Provide continual analysis on ordering requirements to the business, Supply Chain, Marketing and Sales teams.
  • Plan, develop and implement processes and procedures on business inventory management thus ensuing industry best practice.
  • Conduct statistical analysis of sales, inventory and other data.
  • Support management with risk assessments and mitigation activities.
  • Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies.
  • Address demand-related issues in a timely and effective manner.

Forecasting

  • Utilising SAP IBP, develop effective forecast models based on industry trends and demand patterns.
  • Communicate, coach and advise key internal and external stakeholders towards required forecasting standards. Review forecasts and analyse areas for constant improvement and provide feedback where required.
  • Play a key role with internal and external stakeholders regarding communicating Supply Chain issues and topics. Work towards optimal solutions for both customers and company. 
  • Constantly examine areas to improve the management of stock for new product lines. Provide recommendations as required to the business.
  • Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.
  • Successfully communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management.
  • Conduct periodic forecast maintenance, including adjusting as necessary.
  • Data input into various demand planning systems, as required. Reporting and Communication
  • Develop and constantly improve reports in relation to Demand Planning. Identify opportunities for additional reports.
  • Provide advice to the business and management on Demand Planning reporting requirements.
  • Present reports to stakeholders ensuring enough complimentary analysis is provided to enable informed decision making.

General Business Support

  • Build effective working relationships with distributors. Coach and advise key internal stakeholders towards required forecasting standards. Review forecasts and analyse areas for constant improvement and provide feedback where required.
  • Ensure optimal customer service standards are provided to all stakeholders.

Team Management: 

  • Brief and communicate with Team Members during meetings. 
  • Lead by example and model appropriate leadership and workplace behaviours.
  • Mentor and motivate team members in all aspects of demand planning by demonstrating processes and procedures. 
  • Provide Team Members with feedback in an effective and encouraging manner. Ensure aligned persons and teams operate with a personal and professional developmental approach.
  • Monitor Team Member performance. Provide appropriate feedback to Team Member’s and ensure optimal performance that aligns with the company’s objectives.
  • Communicate with clear instructions to direct reports. Maintain effective working relationships and build rapport.
  • Provide ongoing training to Team Members. Monitor the team to ensure the training provided is being put into use. See if any additional training is needed and follow up as required. 
  • Seek and listen to Team Member feedback. Facilitate problem solving & collaboration. Where relevant, pass feedback onto the Supply Chain Manager.
  • Organise and execute the recruitment and training of new Team Members.
  • Upon advice from HR, conduct performance management meetings as required and to agreed standards.

Other 

  • Develop, nurture and maintain business relationship with relevant stakeholders.
  • Adhere to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensure they are communicated and implemented.
  • Adhere to company health and safety guidelines, and other requirements relating to care of equipment. 
  • Be available to travel nationally and internationally as required to satisfy job requirements.
  • Provide training, coaching and support to the wider business on matters related to the job role. 
  • Provide advice on systems and procedures relating to the job role. 
  • Any other duties or responsibilities as delegated by the Supply Chain Manager from time to time.

The Candidate 
The successful candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

  • Well-developed inter-personal skills and strong negotiating skills gained from a similar workplace environment.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office Skills.
  • A strong critical thinking and analytical ability with exceptional attention to detail.
  • Previous experience in SAP and Business Objects is preferred but not expected.
  • Ability to multi-task in a role that is demanding at times.
  • Strong problem solving and time management skills.
  • Proven experience demand planning and/or forecasting role.
  • Extensive business reporting experience.
  • Qualifications in logistics or relevant fields.

   

“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORTUNITY”

If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at: https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/

You must submit a CV on application prior to a phone call and be prepared to sign a nondisclosure. Feel free to call thereafter on the following 0485 835 307


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Full Stack Developer needed in the Defence sector

Full Stack Developer needed in the Defence sector

STATUS: This Position Is No Longer Available

IT & Telecomms / Software – Developer

Permanent / Full Time

Position : Full Stack Developer

Location : ACT

The Company

Gateway Synergy is looking for a Fullstack Developer on behalf of our client. Our client is a rapidly growing company in the Defence industry, with an urgent need for exceptional professionals.
They are located all over the East Coast and are interested in offering flexible work arrangements for highly qualified individuals interested in growing with them.
  
The Role 

In this position you will assist the existing software engineering team in building and enhancing the automation and orchestration platforms, helping to further drive the evolution of our platform while progressing your skills and experience as a software engineer.
Working in a fast-paced environment, you will be challenged and supported by some of the most talented engineers with years of experience to share, mentoring opportunities and an open collaborative engineering culture.
The role reports directly to the Lead Backend Developer and whilst primarily based in Brisbane, remote within Australia is also available to the right candidate(s).

  • Design, develop and maintain API (Application Programming Interface), worker, and UI microservices for our internal and client facing automation and orchestration platforms. 
  • Develop and maintain our in-house component driven UI library. 
  • Develop thoroughly tested code (TDD) following best practices. 
  • Progress your skills and experience through mentoring, hackathons, spike days and collaboration. 
  • Help drive the evolution of our automation and orchestration platforms. 
  • Enhance and progress already existing services. 
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues involving development, staging and production environments. 
  • Ensure your knowledge of the software development industry is up to date and relevant through, for example, networking, undertaking related research and reading relevant blogs and news sources. 
  • Contribute to industry events and forums as required. 
  • Share knowledge, insight, best practice, and ideas with the Engineering Teams and within the organisation more broadly.  
  • Actively contribute to technical related articles and blogs.  
  • Maintain and contribute to innovation and research projects that support tpriorities. 
  • Explore and evaluate new and emerging engineering tools, processes, and technologies relevant to innovating and evolving the platforms.  

Requirements 

  • Intermediate or senior level software developer 
  • Intermediate or advanced knowledge of Ruby 
  • Intermediate or advanced knowledge of JavaScript 
  • Strong understanding of OOP
  • Highly self-motivated and driven 
  • Ability to analyze and solve problems efficiently 
  • Effective communication and effective collaboration skills 
  • Ability to meet tight deadlines in fast-paced environment 
  • Experience with Test Driven Development and high code coverage 
  • Knowledge of JSON, CSV and other data interchange formats 

Desirable

  • Experience with containerization, specifically Docker and Docker Swarm
  • Experience building microservice and service-orientated architecture applications. 
  • Experience building APIs (Application Programming Interface) and workers with non-Rails frameworks, such as Grape, bare-bones Rack, Sinatra etc. 
  • Experience building frontend user interfaces with JavaScript 
  • Experience with VMWare vCloud Director and vCenter APIs (Application Programming Interface) 
  • Experience building components as either Ruby Gems or NodeJS packages. 
  • Experience developing workers for Sidekiq 
  • Experience building Docker images 
  • Experience with NodeJS 
  • Experience with Gitlab 

What the company offers:

  • Competitive salary and additional benefits
  • Employee development support available
  • Flexible working conditions (Hybrid/WFH/Remote arrangements possible)

Security
This is a security assessed position. The successful candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 clearance or higher.

Other
The role may require national travel, overnight stays and liaison with partners and suppliers.

“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORUNITY”

Should you be interested please apply online. Please feel free to contact Josh on 0427 870 585 only after online submission for any enquiries. If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at:

https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/


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Full Stack Developer needed in the Defence sector

Storage and Backup Engineer in Sydney needed for the Defence industry.

STATUS: This Position Is No Longer Available

IT & Telecomms / Network Engineer

Permanent / Full Time

Position : Storage and Backup Engineer

Location : Sydney

The Company

Gateway Synergy is looking for a Computer Storage and Backup Engineer on behalf of our client. Our client is a rapidly growing company in the Defence industry, with an urgent need for exceptional professionals.
They are located all over the East Coast and are interested in offering flexible work arrangements for highly qualified individuals interested in growing with them.
  
The Role & Requirements 

In this position you will be part of the Compute and Storage team. You will be responsible for managing the cloud hosting technologies within a variety of security domains. You will be working with market leading infrastructure technologies and will be designing and recommending best of breed solutions both internally and direct to the customers.

  • Monitor, respond and manage alerts generated by both human and automated sources.
  • Actively identify areas where administrative or operational efficiencies can be improved.
  • Assist both internal and external clients or customers to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents or service requests.
  • Assist customers in the design and development of solutions on the IaaS platform.
  • Liaise with vendor technical support to resolve or mitigate bugs in software or hardware.
  • Repair and replace hardware.
  • Create reports based on service uptime, resource utilisation, security events, and other common key metrics.
  • Participate and contribute to the organisation of company commercial and social events.
  • Comply with company Policies and Procedures

The candidate requirements 
  

  • Experience installing, configuring, and cabling physical servers, storage and server switching equipment
  • Experience with storage protocols such as S3, FCP, iSCSI, FCOE, NVME, NFS, SMB and CIFS
  • Experience managing Storage Arrays such as Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade
  • Experience managing a Cisco UCS environment or similar
  • Experience with Enterprise Backup solutions such as Veeam
  • Familiarity with other common IT technologies like operating systems, databases, hypervisors, automation, and cloud computing and their dependencies on networking infrastructure.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to obtain and analyse information from varying sources and rationalise conclusions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust tone and/or language to suit the audience.
  • Ability to foster productive working relationships with colleagues, vendors, partners, and customers.
  • Able to work both independently and within a team. 

Desirable

  • Awareness of Industry certification frameworks such as ISO27001 or the Australian Government Information Security Manual and their application on networking infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with project management methodologies.

What the company offers:

  • Competitive salary and additional benefits
  • Employee development support available
  • Flexible working conditions (Hybrid/WFH/Remote arrangements possible)

Security
This is a security assessed position. The successful candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 clearance or higher.

Other
The role may require national travel, overnight stays and liaison with partners and suppliers.

“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORUNITY”

Should you be interested please apply online. Please feel free to contact Josh on 0427 870 585 only after online submission for any enquiries. If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at:

https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/


How to Apply

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Full Stack Developer needed in the Defence sector

Storage and Backup Engineer needed in Canberra for the Defence industry.

STATUS: This Position Is No Longer Available

IT & Telecomms / Network Engineer

Permanent / Full Time

Position : Storage and Backup Engineer Canberra

Location : ACT

The Company

Gateway Synergy is looking for a Computer Storage and Backup Engineer on behalf of our client. Our client is a rapidly growing company in the Defence industry, with an urgent need for exceptional professionals.
They are located all over the East Coast and are interested in offering flexible work arrangements for highly qualified individuals interested in growing with them.
  
The Role & Requirements 

In this position you will be part of the Compute and Storage team. You will be responsible for managing the cloud hosting technologies within a variety of security domains. You will be working with market leading infrastructure technologies and will be designing and recommending best of breed solutions both internally and direct to the customers.

  • Monitor, respond and manage alerts generated by both human and automated sources.
  • Actively identify areas where administrative or operational efficiencies can be improved.
  • Assist both internal and external clients or customers to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents or service requests.
  • Assist customers in the design and development of solutions on the IaaS platform.
  • Liaise with vendor technical support to resolve or mitigate bugs in software or hardware.
  • Repair and replace hardware.
  • Create reports based on service uptime, resource utilisation, security events, and other common key metrics.
  • Participate and contribute to the organisation of company commercial and social events.
  • Comply with company Policies and Procedures

The candidate requirements 
  

  • Experience installing, configuring, and cabling physical servers, storage and server switching equipment
  • Experience with storage protocols such as S3, FCP, iSCSI, FCOE, NVME, NFS, SMB and CIFS
  • Experience managing Storage Arrays such as Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade
  • Experience managing a Cisco UCS environment or similar
  • Experience with Enterprise Backup solutions such as Veeam
  • Familiarity with other common IT technologies like operating systems, databases, hypervisors, automation, and cloud computing and their dependencies on networking infrastructure.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to obtain and analyse information from varying sources and rationalise conclusions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust tone and/or language to suit the audience.
  • Ability to foster productive working relationships with colleagues, vendors, partners, and customers.
  • Able to work both independently and within a team. 

Desirable

  • Awareness of Industry certification frameworks such as ISO27001 or the Australian Government Information Security Manual and their application on networking infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with project management methodologies.

What the company offers:

  • Competitive salary and additional benefits
  • Employee development support available
  • Flexible working conditions (Hybrid/WFH/Remote arrangements possible)

Security
This is a security assessed position. The successful candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 clearance or higher.

Other
The role may require national travel, overnight stays and liaison with partners and suppliers.

“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORUNITY”

Should you be interested please apply online. Please feel free to contact Josh on 0427 870 585 only after online submission for any enquiries. If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at:

https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/


How to Apply

Send us an email Email Us
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https://apply.jobadder.com/au3/1909/640559/7w54obduknyehjueomm7eqnu44

Full Stack Developer needed in the Defence sector

Site Reliability Engineer in Melbourne needed for the Defence industry.

STATUS: This Position Is No Longer Available

IT & Telecomms / Software – Analyst/Programmer

Permanent / Full Time

Position : Site Reliability Engineer

Location : Sydney

The Company

Gateway Synergy is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer on behalf of our client. Our client is a rapidly growing company in the Defence industry, with an urgent need for exceptional professionals.
They are located all over the East Coast and are interested in offering flexible work arrangements for highly qualified individuals interested in growing with them.
  
The Role 

In this position you will be responsible for the automation of all manual tasks for the building and deployment of applications and infrastructure releases for all Development and Infrastructure teams, improving reliability and performance of software systems and infrastructure and working with cross-functional teams to build and improve software, services and development production readiness and maturity.

  • Follow company Development and SRE processes and standards.
  • Work with Development and Infrastructure teams to automate applications and infrastructure solutions.
  • Influence other teams and broader Engineering groups in adopting SRE best practices.
  • Support and improve continuous integration, and release and deployment processes using cutting-edge container, virtualization and automation techniques.
  • Conduct performance tuning and capacity planning activities across all environment infrastructure.
  • Automate developer operations and processes where possible.
  • Develop, maintain and optimise automated deployment code for development, test, staging and production environments.
  • Implement and manage monitoring and health checks for infrastructure.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues involving development, test, staging and production environments.
  • Troubleshoot and quickly resolve escalated software and infrastructure related issues and challenges.

Requirements 

  • Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
  • Experience using and configuring continuous integration tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, Bamboo
  • Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Complete confidence in using the Linux command line interface
  • Understanding and efficiency in collaboration and open communication
  • Experience in automating and streamlining operations and processes
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Highly self-motivated and driven
  • Experience working with at least one scripting language such as Bash, Per, Python, Ruby or NodeJS
  • Knowledge of containerisation, specifically Docker
  • Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools (Docker, Hashicorp Vault, Rancher, Gitlab, Vagrant, Ansible)

Desirable

  • Knowledge of microservice and service-oriented architecture
  • Expertise in a container orchestration platform such as Docker Swarm, Rancher 1.6 and Kubernetes
  • Expertise in designing and building secure Docker Images
  • Expertise with database replication techniques and implementations
  • Experience using and managing PKI environments
  • Experience working with and designing secure, scalable and efficient architecture
  • Knowledge of how to set up virtualization platforms – VMWare Suite (vCloud and vCenter), KVM
  • Experience working with centralised logging
  • Experience working BIND DNS
  • Experience automating networking equipment
  • Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic
  • Expertise in configuration and management of database services such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra and Elasticsearch

What the company offers:

  • Competitive salary and additional benefits
  • Employee development support available
  • Flexible working conditions (Hybrid/WFH/Remote arrangements possible)

Security
This is a security assessed position. The successful candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 clearance or higher.

Other
The role may require national travel, overnight stays and liaison with partners and suppliers.

“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORUNITY”

Should you be interested please apply online. Please feel free to contact Josh on 0427 870 585 only after online submission for any enquiries. If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at:

https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/


How to Apply

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Casual Sales Assistant in Holsworthy needed for retail company, flexible arrangement 15-30 hours per week

Casual Sales Assistant in Holsworthy needed for retail company, flexible arrangement 15-30 hours per week

STATUS: This Position Is No Longer Available

Retail / Store Manager / Supervisor

Casual

Position : Casual Sales Assistant

Location : Sydney

The Company

Sales Assistant in Holsworthy needed

Gateway Synergy is looking for a Sales Assistant on behalf of our client. Our client is an Australian owned business with a wealth of experience in providing equipment solutions to Defence, Emergency Services and Law Enforcement personnel.
Our client currently has an exciting role available for a motivated and customer service driven Sales Associate to join our team. A key part of the role will be to deliver meaningful, personalised and genuine customer service with a strong focus on driving sales and teamwork. 
They offer:

  • Exclusive and market-leading products
  • An amazing team of people to work with
  • Ongoing training and support
  • Generous employee discounts

  
The Role 

  • Provide a high standard of customer service 
  • Respond promptly to waiting customers and queues 
  • Ability to operate EFT and handle cash with minimum transaction errors
  • Maintain and apply a working knowledge of store procedures 
  • Solve customer problems where possible, and refer the more complex to higher level staff in a timely & efficient manner 
  • Maintain and exhibit a comprehensive knowledge of current store products and services to existing and potential customers 
  • Cross sell On Duty products and services where appropriate. 
  • Promote products by demonstration and instruction 
  • Ensure products are supplied in alignment with customer orders 
  • Follow up on stock orders as required 
  • Undertake store and stock housekeeping activities 
  • Identify any potential hazards to senior management
  • Any other duties as directed by the Store Manager or their designate from time to time

Requirements 

  • Minimum 2 years in a customer service role 
  • Cash handling/EFT 
  • Demonstrated ability to work alone and as part of a team 
  • Demonstrated proficient computer skills 
  • Basic administration skills 
  • A current, clear police check is required before application will be accepted
  • Military experience would be highly regarded

“OPENING THE GATEWAY BETWEEN TALENT & OPPORUNITY”

Should you be interested please apply online. Please feel free to contact Josh on 0427 870 585 only after online submission for any enquiries. If you would like to look at our other unlisted roles, you can find them at:

https://gatewaysynergy.com.au/careers/


How to Apply

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