Business Services Team Manager

The role

The Business Services Team Manager will lead travel, logistics, events, scheduling, expense policy, and administration. The role involves coordinating large-scale company events and providing executive services for company leads.

What you will do

• Travel approvals, logistics and operations
• Expense review in line with policies
• Planning of complex company events four times a year
• Company offices that provide executive briefing and operational facilities
• Global duty of care, health and safety programs with comprehensive policies and practices
• Schedule meetings
• Coordinate monthly reports
• Handle delegated approvals for travel and expenses
• Work across teams
• Coordinate with suppliers and run small projects or initiatives

Required qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in a technical or business subject
• Drive, and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Leadership and management skills
• Demonstrable good judgement in matters involving money, policy and in-person interactions
• Ability to work in a global, multicultural organisation
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility
• Responsibility, accountability, thoughtfulness and self-awareness
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel up to four times a year, for company events up to two weeks long

Nice to have

• Travel industry experience
• Project management experience
• Event management and operations experience
• Business and corporate administration experience

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries.