Strategic Campaign Director

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Campaign Manager to lead the end-to-end production of brand and marketing campaigns across multiple channels and formats.

As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for collaborating with creative, marketing, digital, editorial and media teams to bring big ideas to life. You will manage timelines, budgets, and external partners while ensuring exceptional creative output that drives impact and aligns with our brand.

Key Responsibilities:

• Campaign Production Management: Lead the end-to-end production process for high-volume and impact, integrated campaigns from concept to delivery across channels (digital, social, broadcast, print, OOH, experiential).
• Creative Development Support: Work closely with the internal creative team, external agencies, and freelancers to develop and refine campaign assets. Provide clear direction, feedback and creative problem solving through concept development and production.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with marketing, media, publicity, digital, content and editorial teams. Proactively manage alignment across teams, to align campaign timelines, deliverables, and performance objectives.
• Vendor and Talent Management: Source, brief, and manage external partners including production companies, photographers, stylists, editors, and other creatives. Ensure all third-party work meets scope, standards and timelines.
• Budget Accountability: Own campaign production budgets including building estimates, managing costs, raising purchase orders and reconciling invoices. Identify opportunities for cost efficiency without compromising creative quality.
• Timeline and Logistics Coordination: Manage timelines, schedules, approvals, shoots, and post-production workflows. Anticipate and resolve production risks and roadblocks to maintain momentum and meet campaign deadlines.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure creative integrity and consistency across all outputs, upholding brand guidelines and compliance with legal and editorial standards.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in creative production, content production, or campaign management (agency or in-house).
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing campaigns and media channels.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• Deep knowledge of production workflows from pre-production and shoot planning to post-production and delivery.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and negotiation skills.
• Experience managing creative teams, vendors, and budgets.
• Familiarity with creative tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Trello, Asana, Airtable).
• Background in advertising, television, film or media production.
• A strong network of creative and production partners.

Benefits:

• Exclusively ours – Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
• Health & wellbeing – Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
• Time off – We offer a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
• Helping you grow – Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion – focused education series) and recognition
• Financial wellbeing – Support on making the most of your money
• Perks & discounts – Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
• Giving back – Make a difference to our communities.
• Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents' rooms

About us:

Our company is Australia's leading 24-hour multi-channel and multi-platform news service provider. Operated by Australian News Channel Pty Ltd (ANC), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, its channels include Sky News Live, Sky News Weather, Sky News Extra, Sky News UK, FOX SPORTS News and Australia Channel for international audiences.

Our unrivalled broadcast and digital news content features award-winning journalists, exclusive insights from the biggest names in politics, ground-breaking special investigations, and live breaking news, sport and weather.