Director of Communications Strategy

We are seeking a talented and experienced Director of Communications Strategy to join our team in Brisbane. As a key member of our senior leadership team, you will be responsible for driving the vision, evolution, and growth of our Brisbane offering.

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned communications professional to take on a leadership role and shape the future of our Brisbane office. You will be responsible for identifying, unlocking, and ingraining new Queensland-based clients, providing additional scale for our existing national clients, and being our face and key stakeholder in Brisbane across local team members, our national executive leadership team, and the broader agency network.

1. Client Service Excellence

• Work with the local team senior leadership team and teams to set and uphold standards in client service.
• Drive account planning processes – ensure quality plans are developed, implemented, and regularly reviewed to ensure we have strategies in place on all client business to achieve our objectives.
• Establish a co-operative culture between other agency teams as needed.
• Foster a shared agenda with clients, inspiring them and giving them the confidence to be adventurous.

• Lead an effective marketing plan to raise the profile of our Brisbane office with business and trade media and bodies across Australia and the region.
• Ensure your personal brand is prominent in the local business community as well as PR and marketing industries.
• Support the agency with meeting award targets and other marketing milestones.

• Drive Brisbane's efforts in new business, seeking out prime opportunities and leading and managing teams to convert pitches.
• Actively look for and deliver on opportunities to grow existing business by building client relationships.
• Establish accurate financial forecasting and plans to deliver against budgets.
• Identify and realize other opportunities to increase revenue.

• An internal figurehead who will inspire, set direction, and lead by example.
• Partner with senior leadership team and local team members to develop a Brisbane vision and thriving agency team culture.
• Convey the agency's offering, philosophy, and vision to clients and potential recruits.
• Partner with the senior leadership team to ensure best practice processes are in place.
• Effective line-management of all direct reports – deliver regular and constructive feedback, identify strategies for developing individuals.
• Develop and foster strong relationship with senior leaders across the agency network.

• Partner with senior leadership team to ensure the right creative infrastructure is in place to enable the delivery of ambitious ideas.
• Create the context to do great work across Brisbane and related teams.
• Build client appetite to buy ambitious ideas.
• Be an inspiring purveyor of great ideas who can ultimately deliver on them.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• A proven track record in PR or communications leadership, with a hunger to take the next step in your career.
• High-level connections 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 (and thick skin) to build, shape, and grow a team.
• Natural and inspiring leadership qualities – confident, decisive, and energetic.
• A vision for the future of earned communications and the role that our agency 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.

What We Offer

We offer a dynamic and supportive work environment, opportunities for professional development and growth, and a competitive salary and benefits package.

Contact Information

Please submit your application, including your resume and cover letter, to [insert contact information].