Sr Manager, Geospatial Development and Operations
Cotality Australia
Date: 6 hours ago
City: Wellington, Wellington
Contract type: Full time
At Cotality, we are driven by a single mission—to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people-centric. Cotality is the trusted source for property intelligence, with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem. Our talented team of 5,000 employees globally uses our network, scale, connectivity and technology to drive the largest asset class in the world. Join us as we work toward our vision of fueling a thriving global property ecosystem and a more resilient society.
Cotality is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At Cotality, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.
Job Description:
Overview Of Cotality
At Cotality, we are driven by a single mission—to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people-centric. Cotality is the trusted source for property intelligence, with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem. Our talented team of 5,000 employees globally uses our network, scale, connectivity and technology to drive the largest asset class in the world. Join us as we work toward our vision of fuelling a thriving global property ecosystem and a more resilient society.
Cotality is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At Cotality, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.
Who are you?
You are an experienced geospatial professional who brings a strong mix of technical expertise, leadership capability, and operational focus. You thrive in complex, fast-paced environments, with a passion for delivering high-quality geospatial data, leading teams, solving problems, and driving continuous improvement. You think strategically, execute with precision, and take pride in ensuring customers and stakeholders derive maximum value from geospatial products and services.
You build strong, trust-based relationships across both internal teams and external clients, communicating clearly, confidently, and professionally. You are committed to understanding client needs and ensuring service delivery meets or exceeds expectations. Adaptable, resilient, and comfortable managing change, you focus on achieving outcomes with professionalism, collaboration, and accountability. You are excited by the opportunity to help shape the future of Cotality’s geospatial platforms and take ownership with energy, integrity, and pride.
What is the role?
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Manager of Geospatial Development and Operations to oversee the day-to-day management of Cotality New Zealand’s unique geospatial products, including our flagship NZ MasterMap platform. Based in Wellington, this pivotal role is responsible for setting the strategic direction for geospatial data quality and delivery, maintaining operational excellence across existing platforms, and helping shape the future of Cotality ‘s location intelligence capabilities. Please note that this role is based in Wellington, New Zealand.
At Cotality, we work with a range of geospatial technologies, including Smallworld GIS, ArcGIS Pro, and FME Desktop/Server. The NZ MasterMap product, which this role directly supports, is currently based on the Smallworld GIS platform. This role will also contribute to the planning, design, and implementation of the next generation of geospatial platforms, ensuring we continue to meet and exceed our customers’ evolving needs.
The successful candidate will drive operational excellence, maintain high standards of data quality, collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on geospatial data deliveries, and lead a diverse team of technical professionals. This is a key leadership role at the intersection of geospatial data management, platform innovation, and customer success.
What Will You be Doing?
As Senior Manager of Geospatial Development and Operations, you will:
What credentials do you need?
Our values are the backbone of our organisation. They represent what we believe in and they guide the way we behave.
Cotality’s Diversity Commitment:
Cotality is fully committed to employing a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive work environment that embraces everyone’s unique contributions, experiences and values. We offer an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth and provides a competitive salary and benefits package. We are better together when we support and recognize our differences.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:
Cotality is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, record of offences, age, marital status, family status or disability. Cotality maintains a Drug-Free Workplace.
Thrive with Cotality
At Cotality, we offer more than just a job, we provide a benefits experience designed to support your whole self. From a flexible working model to competitive time off and retirement savings with meaningful perks and growth opportunities, our package is built to help you thrive at work and in life.
Highlights include:
Cotality is fully committed to employing a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive work environment that embraces everyone’s unique contributions, experiences and values. We offer an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth and provides a competitive salary and benefits package. We are better together when we support and recognize our differences.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:
Cotality is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, record of offences, age, marital status, family status or disability. Cotality maintains a Drug-Free Workplace.
Please apply on our website for consideration.
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Cotality is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At Cotality, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.
Job Description:
Overview Of Cotality
At Cotality, we are driven by a single mission—to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people-centric. Cotality is the trusted source for property intelligence, with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem. Our talented team of 5,000 employees globally uses our network, scale, connectivity and technology to drive the largest asset class in the world. Join us as we work toward our vision of fuelling a thriving global property ecosystem and a more resilient society.
Cotality is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At Cotality, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.
Who are you?
You are an experienced geospatial professional who brings a strong mix of technical expertise, leadership capability, and operational focus. You thrive in complex, fast-paced environments, with a passion for delivering high-quality geospatial data, leading teams, solving problems, and driving continuous improvement. You think strategically, execute with precision, and take pride in ensuring customers and stakeholders derive maximum value from geospatial products and services.
You build strong, trust-based relationships across both internal teams and external clients, communicating clearly, confidently, and professionally. You are committed to understanding client needs and ensuring service delivery meets or exceeds expectations. Adaptable, resilient, and comfortable managing change, you focus on achieving outcomes with professionalism, collaboration, and accountability. You are excited by the opportunity to help shape the future of Cotality’s geospatial platforms and take ownership with energy, integrity, and pride.
What is the role?
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Manager of Geospatial Development and Operations to oversee the day-to-day management of Cotality New Zealand’s unique geospatial products, including our flagship NZ MasterMap platform. Based in Wellington, this pivotal role is responsible for setting the strategic direction for geospatial data quality and delivery, maintaining operational excellence across existing platforms, and helping shape the future of Cotality ‘s location intelligence capabilities. Please note that this role is based in Wellington, New Zealand.
At Cotality, we work with a range of geospatial technologies, including Smallworld GIS, ArcGIS Pro, and FME Desktop/Server. The NZ MasterMap product, which this role directly supports, is currently based on the Smallworld GIS platform. This role will also contribute to the planning, design, and implementation of the next generation of geospatial platforms, ensuring we continue to meet and exceed our customers’ evolving needs.
The successful candidate will drive operational excellence, maintain high standards of data quality, collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on geospatial data deliveries, and lead a diverse team of technical professionals. This is a key leadership role at the intersection of geospatial data management, platform innovation, and customer success.
What Will You be Doing?
As Senior Manager of Geospatial Development and Operations, you will:
- Strategy Contribution: Contribute to Cotality’s geospatial vision, strategy, and roadmap to maintain and enhance the most comprehensive geospatial data product in the New Zealand market.
- Team Leadership: Direct the workflow of a team responsible for capturing and maintaining geospatial data within Smallworld GIS to support the NZ MasterMap product.
- Nurture and Develop High Performers: Demonstrated ability to hone and nurture high performers, fostering their growth and development to achieve their full potential. E.g. mentorship, development plans, and offering opportunities for skill enhancement and career progression.
- Quality Management: Set clear quality standards and targets and manage the team to consistently achieve these outcomes.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal teams, including Property Research, Data & Analytics, Data Engineering, and others, to support the production and delivery of a high-quality geospatial data asset.
- Client Support: Support internal and external clients to ensure all data quality and delivery Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met, and help customers maximize the value derived from Cotality’s geospatial products.
- Champion a Growth Mindset: Proven track record of encouraging a growth mindset within the team, challenging the status quo, and driving continuous improvement. This involves promoting innovative thinking, embracing new technologies (such as AI) and methodologies, and leading the team through transformational changes to achieve strategic goals.
- Sales Enablement: Collaborate with segment leads on the development of sales tools, marketing collateral, pricing models, and user personas to support commercial success.
- Product Development: Manage and prioritize product development initiatives as required, including the creation of supporting artefacts such as user guides, training materials, and operational documentation.
- Operational Maturity: Drive the maturation of product operations, including onboarding processes, user support, billing and invoicing, training, legal compliance, and other operational areas critical to delivering a seamless client experience.
- WHS: All Cotality Workers must take reasonable care for their own health and safety while at work, ensure their actions do not compromise the safety of others, follow reasonable instructions to support Cotality’s WHS obligations, and actively cooperate with the WHS Framework including participating in any training required. Workers are encouraged to understand this policy and seek clarification from management when needed.
What credentials do you need?
- Formal qualifications in IT, Engineering, Geospatial Science, or a related field, or equivalent knowledge gained through hands-on experience.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working with geospatial data and platforms, and/or leading geospatial operations teams.
- Hands-on experience with GIS technologies (e.g., Smallworld GIS, ArcGIS, FME, or equivalent platforms).
- Domain-specific industry experience in Utilities, Real Estate, Insurance, or Banking & Finance sectors is highly regarded.
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) is desirable.
Our values are the backbone of our organisation. They represent what we believe in and they guide the way we behave.
- Be Yourself
- Lift People Up
- Make an Impact
- Client First
- Innovate Always
- Set the Pace.
Cotality’s Diversity Commitment:
Cotality is fully committed to employing a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive work environment that embraces everyone’s unique contributions, experiences and values. We offer an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth and provides a competitive salary and benefits package. We are better together when we support and recognize our differences.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:
Cotality is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, record of offences, age, marital status, family status or disability. Cotality maintains a Drug-Free Workplace.
Thrive with Cotality
At Cotality, we offer more than just a job, we provide a benefits experience designed to support your whole self. From a flexible working model to competitive time off and retirement savings with meaningful perks and growth opportunities, our package is built to help you thrive at work and in life.
Highlights include:
- Time off: Generous PTO and paid holidays, plus volunteer time off.
- Family Support: Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a baby stipend.
- Retirement: KiwiSaver with employer contribution
- Wellbeing: 10 paid wellbeing half days, $640 annual well-being stipend, 12 free mental health sessions and free access to the Calm app.
- Extras: Recognition Rewards, Referral bonuses and more!
Cotality is fully committed to employing a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive work environment that embraces everyone’s unique contributions, experiences and values. We offer an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth and provides a competitive salary and benefits package. We are better together when we support and recognize our differences.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:
Cotality is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, record of offences, age, marital status, family status or disability. Cotality maintains a Drug-Free Workplace.
Please apply on our website for consideration.
Privacy Policy
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By providing your telephone number, you agree to receive automated (SMS) text messages at that number from Cotality regarding all matters related to your application and, if you are hired, your employment and company business. Message & data rates may apply. You can opt out at any time by responding STOP or UNSUBSCRIBING and will automatically be opted out company-wide.
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