Consulting Director | Christchurch

Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role

At Datacom, we help organisations navigate change and unlock the full potential of digital in a world being reshaped by AI. We have an opportunity for the right person to join our New Zealand Consulting practice, helping us build on our established Christchurch presence and continue shifting the dial from a technology-led environment to a consulting-led one.

We’re looking for a Consulting Director who is equally comfortable engaging with executive and senior leadership stakeholders, leading complex client conversations, and working alongside delivery teams to bring structure to ambiguity. This is a senior consulting practitioner role, where leadership is demonstrated through thought leadership, client impact, and the ability to model and elevate consulting craft in others.

You’ll work closely with the Head of Consulting NZ and the wider team to strengthen our Christchurch capability, deepen our presence in market, shape early-stage opportunities, and reinforce Datacom’s position as a consulting-led technology partner. A key part of this role is how you show up at the front end of client work: framing problems, shaping thinking with clients, and turning ambiguity into clear, valuable pathways forward.

You will also play an important role in lifting consulting capability across the broader team through coaching in practice, demonstrating strong methods, and setting the standard for how we operate as consultants in market.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and shape complex client engagements across strategy, transformation, and technology domains.
• Engage with customers to frame problems, challenge assumptions, and shape thinking before solutions are defined.
• Support pre-sales activity including value framing, solution shaping, proposal development, and client presentations.
• Partner with sales, delivery, and platform teams to build compelling value propositions and win strategies.
• Model strong consulting craft by bringing structure, methods, and approaches to ambiguous client challenges in real time.
• Coach and uplift consulting capability across the team through direct engagement and on-the-job coaching.
• Contribute to the development of new consulting offerings and repeatable approaches aligned to market demand, including AI and digital transformation opportunities.
• Support the growth of the NZ consulting practice through opportunity shaping, relationship development, and hands-on engagement leadership.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What We’re Looking For

• Deep consulting experience, with strong hands-on delivery across complex transformation programmes or large-scale client environments.
• Demonstrated ability to create structure and clarity around client outcomes and value, and to shape early-stage client thinking.
• Strong pre-sales and consulting origination capability, not just responding to defined requirements.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and uplift others through modelling and coaching.
• Comfortable operating across strategy, technology, and transformation conversations with senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to identify and shape growth opportunities.
• 10+ years’ experience in the consulting or advisory market is highly desirable.

Why Join Us Here at Datacom?   

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.   

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.   

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.   

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.