Sydney Head of Investment Lead

24 hours ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Wavemaker Full time
About the Role

The Sydney Head of Investment is a key leadership position responsible for leading a high-performing team in delivering exceptional investment strategies and implementation planning for clients. As a senior consultant, you will provide thought leadership and drive key senior client and publisher engagement to unlock transformational growth for our clients, people, and agency.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate closely with the agency MD to shape the direction of the Sydney agency and build solutions for today and influence change for the future.
  • Ensure the right structure for the team and retain and attract the best talent for a future-fit agency.
  • Motivate the team to achieve individual, team, and organizational goals.
  • Lead and coach the team to ensure they reach their potential.
  • Empower team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
  • Set the rhythm and lead regular team meetings.
  • Oversee the workflow of the team to ensure SOX controls, SLAs, and KPIs are adhered to.
  • Oversee leave and team absences to ensure coverage for team responsibilities and minimal impact on remaining team members.
  • Conduct fortnightly 1:1 check-ins, annual Career Conversations, and Annual Performance Reviews with direct reports through Culture Amp.
  • Liaise with the People Team to resolve any team disputes to ensure a safe and productive team environment.
  • Create and foster a cohesive team environment through team activities and cultural moments.
  • Continuously champion agency values that build strong and trusted connections, solution-oriented perspectives, and demonstrate genuine care for collective team success.
  • Foster knowledge sharing and continuous learning around points of view, trends, and relevant skills to continue nurturing a high-performing team.
  • Lead teams while adapting to fast-changing priorities.
Client Focus
  • Act as a senior investment consultant for clients.
  • Deliver innovative strategic insights by acting as an expert on the client's business, industry, and competitors.
  • Seek out reformist ways to keep clients informed on relevant developments and changes to the media landscape.
  • Lead communication of market trends, developments, or any changes that will impact buying performance.
  • Regularly meet with senior vendors and partners to drive client agendas, identifying opportunities to fuel transformational growth for clients.
  • Build strong, trusted, and enduring client relationships at a senior level.
Product and Growth
  • Collaborate closely with the National Head of Investment and the Chief Investment & Operations Officer to shape the future investment offering for Wavemaker and define success metrics for the team.
  • Serve as a leadership voice internally and externally, with a strong focus on developing and rolling out best-in-class implementation planning and buying product for clients.
  • Oversee the construction and presentation of effective, bespoke, and future-fit implementation planning and investment strategies for clients.
  • Foster a culture of innovative thinking and creativity, leveraging senior relationships with publishers to bring insights and case studies from across the market and more broadly to the agency to inspire client strategies.
  • Lean into new investment models, tools, services, and measurement, forming a point of view and case studies to share with the team and the broader agency.
Skills and Experience
  • Possess a passion for the industry with extensive agency and client service experience.
  • Proven capability in leading a large, diverse team and embedding a values-based culture.
  • Collaborative and astute, able to build trust and respect within a network and capable of influencing through persuasion and leadership.
  • Strong, up-to-date media landscape knowledge, confidently able to articulate macroeconomic and audience trends and forecast challenges and opportunities for clients.
  • Inspiring communicator with exceptional presentation skills.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the patience to examine detail and create solutions.
  • First-class negotiation skills.
  • Results-driven, passionate about delivering business results for clients, with the ability to identify and clearly articulate what's working and why.

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