PR Corporate |amp|or Brand Senior Account Director or Group Account Director

A unique opportunity for a tenacious consultant who is excited by strategic communications that brings both Brand Reputation and Brand Love together
Learn and thrive within an agency culture that's ‘limited by nothing' with a genuine commitment to its people
Lead some of Australia's smartest PR Consultants of the Future across a dynamic corporate portfolio fully integrating PR, social and content
Be inspired by working with the world's biggest brands guiding corporate strategies and representing high profile C-Suite leaders and experts
Influence strategy and innovation across your portfolio and the agency
Collaborate with vertical specialists, creatives and unique client partners


Senior or Group Account Director

Your Opportunity

As a Senior Account Director or Group Account Director you will play a key senior role at Thrive, Sydney. This is a chance to be a part of consistent growth and innovation with one of Australia's most revered public relations agencies, Thrive, driving earned-first integrated storytelling typically in the B2B, B2B2C and corporate space but ideally crossing into brand communications.

Work with some of the world's biggest brands in tech, travel and tourism, transport, wellness, automotive and more. You will have the opportunity to lead a core Sydney team of category specialists and report to the local Sydney Business Director
Be part of Thrive's local Senior Leadership Team where you will be exposed to the inner workings of the agency, learn how to achieve commercial goals and influence the agency and teams' success


Managing your team & clients

Brand reputation and corporate b2b, b2b2c and b2c comms experience, ideally in industries such as technology, professional services, tourism and transport, hospitality, sport and entertainment or government
Partner with long standing clients who trust and respect Thrive and its people - you'll be developing thought leadership strategies across traditional media and social, running client awards, case study and speaking engagement programs, train leaders for presentations and issues scenarios, deliver real-time crisis communications, produce content for earned, owned and paid media channels for corporate and c-suite needs, devise customer engagement strategies and overall deliver sound strategic counsel to clients
Responsibility for nurturing the growth of your team and your client portfolio, managing workflow and outcomes, and devising strategies that build and protect the reputations of your clients
Drive best-in-class work across strategy, creative and delivery of traditional and integrated communications services
And be a part of some of Australia's biggest corporate pitches


Learn & Grow.

You'll participate in ongoing learning and development opportunities delivered across the agency in addition to tailored internal and external training to help you develop technical, commercial and broader EQ skills.

You'll be led by ambitious, consistent, thought provoking and kind senior leaders.

You'll be provided with unique global and local experiences with clients including domestic and global travel if desired.

Requirements


Your Experience, Approach & Impact :

10-12+ years experience in agency or inhouse

You share our values: you're passionate, accountable, curious, of high integrity and you thrive on collaboration with a #OneTeam approach.

A genuine lover of news, policy, media and business in Australia
An ability to devise an integrated, strategic PR/social plan with impact
Not afraid of pace and rolling up your sleeves to get things done
A demonstrated network developed by excellent relationship management and outstanding client service reputation
A positive energetic approach to your work and a natural solutions-focused mindset, known for managing exceptional client relations
You hustle internally and externally to get the job done, grow your client portfolio and deliver PR work that sets you and the agency apart
A proven track record of client development resulting in annualised revenue growth
Experienced manager of teams
Financially astute and comfortable in commercial conversations
Proven success in ‘closing' conversations with clear actions and next steps
Ambitious, accountable and driven to see yourself and others succeed


This is Thrive.

Culture is everything. It's a reason why we have a 100% return rate by working parents, have 8+% retention of retainer clients, have had consistent leadership for more than two decades, embrace diversity in our workplace and have a myriad of Thrive team and client 'boomerangs'. Thrive has a clear vision and mission to deliver impactful work and we have grown by continuing to diversify and be early adopters of technology and global trends. Thrive is not a ‘hot then not' agency. We are not an ad agency trying to be earned and PR specialists. We are uniquely Thrive helping our people, brands and community to do just that. Our team is made up of in-house media, creative and digital specialists who work across five locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Auckland delivering strategic communications services for brands including Blackmores, Slyp, ANZ Group, Cisco, FedEx, Australian Food & Grocery Council, News Corp, Tinder and Harley Davidson.

Benefits

Thrive values work-life integration including hybrid flexible working (Mondays and Fridays work-from-home) and delivers many benefits including an additional annual wellness leave day, work from any location rotations, early Friday knock-off, various bonus options and more.

Visit us here for more information - @thrivepr / www.thrivepr.com.au

CVs to people@thrivepr.com.au