Operations & Sales Manager - Ambius

• Are you passionate about plants and horticulture?
• Are you looking for the next exciting step in your career?
• Do you enjoy managing a team and striving to be the best?

Then this is the perfect role for you! The Ambius Sydney Branch, We are looking for an Emerging Business Leader to take the next step in their career. You will have the opportunity to showcase your operational experience while balancing day-to-day responsibilities and developing our Ambius Sales Team to achieve their full potential.

At Ambius our business is based on Scientific Research that demonstrates the benefits plants provide indoors and in turn the powerful impact they have on our health and wellbeing.

Interior plantscaping means more than just plants. We strive to be the premier creator of ambience for our client’s environments, which enriches the work experience, whilst providing Health and Wellbeing through improved indoor air quality. In turn this delivers a productive environment enabling people to thrive.

Our Ambius team are the people responsible for the impressive Green Walls in hotel lobbies, the clusters of plant designs in shopping centres, the dense Palette of Plants in major offices. In summary, we provide any sized organisation with interior landscaping that engages clients and their staff through the health benefits of plants! Our customers range from the largest multinationals and government departments to offices and local restaurants.

We have an exciting position available for an experienced Operations and Sales Manager to join our vibrant, passionate, fast paced team in Ambius Sydney. If you are self-motivated and have outstanding people & communication skills and a high level of drive, then we'd love to hear from you.

In this role you will be based in Sydney, leading a team of 20 Operational and Sales staff, all passionate about Horticulture. You will be responsible for achieving and exceeding sales quotas, retention, installation and profit targets, whilst building and maintaining effective internal and external relationships with key stakeholders within the business services industry.

This is a key management position and is responsible for all operational and sales aspects of our Ambius product lines. Reporting directly to the Business Manager and leading a team.

You will be responsible for the following outcomes:

• Leading a safety culture
• Developing, leading and managing a first class operations,service support and sale team
• Delivery of the operational and sales plan
• Managing the budget, P&L, operational measures
• Driving operational efficiencies and continuous improvement to work smarter no harder
• Proactively manage service delivery to consistently meet customer contractual expectations to positively impact client retention and growth
• Motivate and lead the Sales team to achieve budgets

For Brilliant Execution you will need:

• A demonstrated commitment to safety and a proven track record in building a safety culture
• A minimum 3 years experience as an Operations and/or Sales Manager with strong operational principles, driving sales growth and experience managing planning/scheduling systems
• An engaging leader with experience in coaching and developing team members with the willingness to be a ‘hands on’ leader where required
• Ability to focus and have a flexible approach when faced with change, completing priorities and work demands
• Demonstrated commercial acumen to manage budgets and costs
• Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated track record of successfully delivering against targets, KPI’s and cost efficiencies
• The ability to positively challenge the status quo and champion continuous improvement
• Horticultural experience is advantageous, however not essential

Our people are the energy behind our success and we are committed to growing, developing and retaining our people. The successful candidate will be required to complete a pre- employment medical, drug & alcohol screen as well as background checks. If the idea of working in a highly collaborative, friendly, yet busy, and hardworking team organisation that is on a growth trajectory sounds like you, please get in touch!

If you are ready for the next step in your career or wanting a new challenge APPLY NOW!