Employment Type Permanent Closing Date 27 Mar 2025 11:59pm Job Title Senior Commercial Specialist - Government Wide Network Job Summary Job Description The Senior Commercial Specialist plays an essential role in providing strategic financial advice and detailed commercial analysis to assigned business unit client groups. As a senior leader in the Commercial segment, you will be required to build capability and drive a high-performance culture within your function that effectively contributes to achieving strategic and operational objectives. You thrive on developing insightful analysis on critical business issues and testing hypotheses that strongly contribute to operational decision making, that ultimately impact long-term economic performance. This is how you bring your role to life: Provide recommendations linked to clear financial data, performance measures and business levers Proactively identify and act on opportunities to improve sales, productivity and/or other key business enablers • Understand the impact of your mission on group level performance in order to gain perspective of the broader organisational landscape Shape and influence business knowledge for key analytical areas (customer, market, pricing and commercial), helping enable meaningful insights to be generated Solve commercial problems through data and analytics solutions, extracting and communicating meaningful insights from analyses and driving the execution of associated solutions Provide valuable advice to key stakeholders on strategies to increase return on investment for specific initiatives Strongly contribute to the strategic and operational initiatives within the commercial segment to ensure that key objectives are accomplished Deliver market and industry intelligence, in conjunction with customer cohort analysis, and work with others to consolidate into overarching commercial analysis that aids decision making across teams Collaborate on commercial negotiation processes and outcomes with key suppliers and vendors to ensure optimal outcomes are achieved Identify opportunities to provide value added insights based on customer, sales, competitor and market insights to identify opportunities and risks, and make recommendations to improve channel execution Use technical expertise and skills to build financial models and create investment business cases to support strategic and operational decision making Participate and embrace the Commercial ways of working mind sets and practices for the team About You As a Senior Commercial Specialist, you will need to demonstrate skills in agile methodology, analytical thinking, technology aptitude, benchmarking, business partnering, category management, coaching, commercial acumen, communication and influence, contract management and negotiation, policy development and implementation, risk management, long-term planning, vendor performance management, project management, negotiation, sourcing suppliers, stakeholder engagement, strategic thinking, strategy development, supplier/vendor management, and time management. As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on 61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia) and 1 (623) 400-7726 (for job applications in the Philippines and India). When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application. We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.