Business Services Team Manager

Summary

Join Canonical's Business Services Team as a Team Manager, leading a global team responsible for travel, logistics, events, scheduling, expense policy, and administration. This executive role demands exceptional coordination, planning, decision-making, budgeting, procurement, reporting, and management skills. You will oversee tens of millions in operational costs and numerous tactical and operational decisions, impacting every team at Canonical. The team also provides executive support services across departments. The position requires significant travel for company events. Canonical offers a distributed work environment, a personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• An 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• Our global duty of care, health and safety programs with comprehensive policies and practices

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Performance-driven annual bonus or commission