Group Account Director

3 days ago

Sydney, Australia Thrive PR + Communications Full time

**JOB SUMMARY**
- **AGILITY OF AN INDIE + RESOURCES OF A GLOBAL AGENCY**
- **PEOPLE-FIRST CULTURE**
- **WORK WITH THE MOST TALKED ABOUT LOCAL AND GLOBAL BRANDS**

**LOCATION: SYDNEY**

**This is not your everyday opportunity. This is a chance to join Australasia’s fastest growing independent agency that always has, and always will, beat to its own drum. It’s an agency culture where our people and well-being are front and centre. Where collaboration not competitiveness is part of our DNA. Where diversity equals belonging. Where you are limited by nothing.**

**If you are a born storyteller with a deep understanding and expertise in retail PR, this is an opportunity designed for you. You will have the opportunity to bring your retail expertise to life working on some of the most iconic retail brands - locally and internationally. You will lead a talented and collaborative team working with some of the most loved and exciting brands, in an agency where the benefits of independence and the resources of the globals - full service content studio; creative team; finance team; dedicated Client Experience Manager, New Business Development Manager, People & Culture Director - come together.**

**We value work life integration and offer**:

- **Hybrid flexible working**
- **An additional annual leave wellness day**
- **Comprehensive Learning & Development program**
- **Opportunity to work in any of our offices across AU & NZ**
- **Work from anywhere in the world to visit family & friends**

**We are looking for a skilled, passionate, well connected and collaborative senior leader with a genuine passion for growing brands and a desire to strengthen the branding and integrated communications of a stellar line up of clients. You are a team player, with strong strategic counsel capabilities alongside an attitude of rolling up your sleeves when needed. You have endless curiosity and a thirst for achieving and inspiring the extraordinary every day. You champion highly compelling and engaging digital content, driven by performance data to deliver strategic rollout.**

**The Role**

**Thrive is looking for a dynamic Consumer Group Account Director with retail public relations experience and a passion to create impactful campaigns.**

**Duties include**
- **Manage a diverse and high profile consumer client portfolio**
- **Manage and develop client relationships**
- **Inspire and manage multidisciplinary teams**
- **Lead consumer channel agnostic communication strategies**
- **Oversee all client media communications for your clients**
- **Media liaison and relationship building**
- **New business development and growth**
- **Drive best-in-class work across strategy, creative, and execution**
- **Daily operational management of client and team portfolio including: project management; scoping; forecasting; capacity planning; invoicing; resource management; financial analysis and reporting**
- **Team leadership focusing on mentoring and development, training and line management.**

**About You**
- **10+ years of industry PR experience, either in agency or in-house**
- **A strong media network in retail**
- **A proven track record of client development resulting in annualised revenue increases**
- **An experienced strategic thinker**
- **Experienced manager of teams**
- **Financially astute and comfortable in commercial conversations**
- **Proven success in ‘closing’ conversations with clear actions and next steps**
- **Experienced relationship builder both within and beyond the agency**
- **Excellent verbal and written communication**
- **Strong organisational and interpersonal skills**
- **Ability to lead and inspire their team**
- **Proven success in building and sustaining long-term relationships internally and externally.**
- **Team player who is prepared to work collaboratively with others to generate the best outcome**
- **Strong time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities, solve problems, juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines**
- **Keep up with industry trends to promote innovative and creative solutions**
- **Ambitious and driven to succeed**
- **Accountable and drives accountability in others**
- **Degree in related discipline or equivalent experience**

**About Thrive**

**Thrive was founded by Managing Director, Leilani Abels, when she was 25, and inspired to create the Starry Starry Night Charity Ball, in support of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation and those impacted by child-related crimes. The charity event raised millions of dollars over its 16 years, and through the connections made, Thrive emerged. That foundational spirit of people and purpose remains at the core of Thrive, our values and how we operate.**

**Some 22 years later, we are Australasia’s fastest growing and largest independent, Australian owned public relations agency that exists to help its people, partners and the community grow vigorously, flourish and be successful. Thrive's 95+ person team is made up of in

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