Strategic Growth Manager

About HAVAS Red:

• We are powered by a team with undeniable passion, fearless ambition and incredible ideas.
• As pioneers in earned-first communications we believe our best work happens when we shape a singular creative idea to live in any owned, earned, social and paid channel.

We operate across offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with 80+ team members who are smart, hungry, and creative. They bring together a chorus of integrated comms functions including media relations, content creation, social media, influencer marketing, activations, corporate comms, and issues management. We serve clients ranging from global brands to Australian icons, to some of the fastest growing companies around.

We are part of the HAVAS PR Network which comprises over 40 agencies worldwide. Around Australia, HAVAS Red is part of the HAVAS Village, a brilliant group of agencies and specialisms across communications, advertising, media, and public affairs.

About the Role:

We have established ourselves as leaders in the Australian communications industry over the past 20+ years. With Aussie team members in 3 offices and 5 locations, we have the scale to develop hyper local, national, regional, and global campaigns. Brisbane forms a strategic hub for our agency, both in providing on-the-ground client activation and counsel, and in helping execute national client programs in partnership with team members from across the country.

Our Brisbane team serves a mix of local and national clients (spanning consumer and corporate verticals), a small but mighty team with large ambitions, and plenty of new and untapped growth opportunities. This is a chance for the successful candidate to shape the future of our Brisbane and Queensland offering with the support of our highly successful and established agency behind it.

This Newly Created Role Will Serve Many Purposes:

• Drive the vision, evolution, and growth of our Brisbane offering, all with the support of an established executive team and national staff
• Identify, unlock, and ingrain new Queensland-based clients to establish a larger portfolio of local business
• Provide additional scale for existing national clients and team members
• Be our face and key stakeholder in Brisbane across local team members, national ELT, and the broader village agencies
• Own commercial and P&L responsibilities, as well as staff and hiring decisions
• Work in partnership with local team members and HAVAS Red SLT to ensure a positive, exciting, and high-powered culture
• Contribute to overall creative excellence and commercial outcomes of HAVAS Red Australia

The Type of Qualities We're Looking For:

• A proven PR or communications leader who's still hungry to take the next step in their career
• Highly connected in Brisbane/Queensland among brand and businesses communities, with a track record of building lasting relationships and sourcing new client opportunities
• An entrepreneurial spirit with the ambition to build, shape, and grow a team
• A natural and inspiring leader – confident, decisive and energetic
• A vision for the future of earned communications and the role that HAVAS Red can play for our client partners
• Inherently strategic and creative in solving challenges for clients and teams
• A willing partner for some of the best practitioners in the business across all functions of the agency
• Calm under pressure and with a capacity to manage varying business priorities
• Open, honest and always acts with integrity

Key Responsibilities in Detail:

• Client Service Excellence
• Profile & Marketing
• Business Development
• Team Leadership and Development
• Driving Creative Excellence

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for this role. The selected candidate will contribute to shaping the future of our Brisbane office. Our Brisbane team is looking for someone who shares our values and passion for delivering exceptional results.