Company Description
Are you ready to be a big part of something big?
At carsales, we’re all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.
When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.
Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it?
And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.
What’s on offer:
A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
We’re a certified Great Place to Work, Family Friendly Workplace and WGEA Employer of Choice.
The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that you’ll actually have face time with.
18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.
Job Description
What you’ll do
RedBook is the leading provider of vehicle identification and pricing data services in Australia. We have been researching the automotive market for over 70 years, and are a trusted business partner within the auto, finance, and insurance industries.
This is your opportunity to join the RedBook Australia business as the Data Development & Integration Manager. In this role, you will lead the strategic direction, revenue, delivery, product development, Profit & Loss and the research of data assets.
Reporting into the Global General Manager, in this diverse role, you will ensure the optimal identification and utilisation of consistent data assets for use in RedBook products and services across all 9 RedBook Asia-Pacific countries (including Australia).
Support all aspects of the RedBook Australia business as the subject matter expert and “public face” in relation to the automotive industry and vehicle data including used and future pricing trends.
Share expertise as a subject matter expert in the current and future direction of the Global Automotive industry in relation to the data assets required to provide RedBook a competitive advantage in our products and services.
Develop and deliver approved business revenue plans including the identification of new sales opportunities and the selling of data products to B2B and B2C customers.
In addition, to vehicle attribute data, your focus will be required on several aspects of the new car industry that impacts new vehicle pricing, vehicle safety, vehicle cost to own, car special offers, drive away price calculations, etc.
Understand and agree the acquisition of data assets on a consistent and timely manner and the early identification of future data asset acquisitions required, for vehicle identification, specification, pricing and insight delivery processes, to maximise RedBook products and services.
Qualifications
What are we looking for
Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).
Demonstrate understanding and expertise to identify, provide design support, and assist the delivery of efficient systems, (including data entry, databases and retrieval systems) both existing and new and the implementation of efficient research processes, that adheres to our strict quality and legal standards.
Drive a culture of continuous data improvement, utilisation and insights in our RedBook products and services.
Extensive understanding of the broad automotive market across the Asia-Pacific region and how automotive data is used across the ecosystem by B2B and B2C customers. A minimum of 15 years+ management experience with an Automotive OEM, and/or associated Industry company.
Understand database structures and data delivery mechanisms, ideally via experience in data research capability.
Experience working with data from a wide variety of sources such as flat files, Excel, databases, and APIs. Highly proficient in MS SQL server, MS Excel (including macros), VBA and Python is a mandatory requirement. Working knowledge and experience with R or a data visualisation platform would be beneficial.
The role has a strong focus on car data but is not limited to cars as RedBook researches heavy commercial, motorbikes, caravans and marine in various countries.
Additional Information
A few other things we want to let you know about…
carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process – if you want to know more just ask.
We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.
So come and join our team – because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.