General Manager (12 month contract)

Location: melbourne
Salary: Base + 11.5% super
Job Type: permanent
Contact: Lucy Garrido
About the company:
Our client is an award winning independent creative communication agency, filled with a team of dedicated creatives, strategists, client service experts and communications professionals, who thrive on supporting their diverse client base. They are known for being one of the smartest and most efficient agencies in market, blending creativity with behavioural science and executing holistically across all communications channels. They specialise in:
  • Creative & Strategy
  • Behaviour Change
  • Public Relations
  • Content
  • Social Media
  • Influencer
  • Experiential and Sponsorship
  • Issues Management
 
Culture:
They are a business that believe the best work is a result of having the best people on board. They’re committed to providing their team with the environment, support and training to deliver work that gets their clients noticed. Culture, health and wellbeing are very important. From bringing your dog to work, hybrid working, monthly team initiatives, profit share and regular team celebrations, they’re committed to fostering a supportive, nimble work environment. They’re about efficiency and effectiveness, not how many hours you clock.
 
About The Role:
 
The General Manager role will be split roughly 50% client work and senior counsel, and 50% growth and operations of the Melbourne PR and Communications teams. The growth and operations remit involves leading the day to day rhythm with all PR teams delivering best results. You will also play a pivotal role as senior counsel on a number of major clients and jumping in on broader client support when needed. Working closely with the co founders, you will be involved in the strategic planning and execution of growth plans for the agency, identifying organic opportunities within the business as well as keeping abreast of trends across the industry.
Key responsibilities include:
  • Driving DEI initiatives
  • Managing team and culture building activities and events
  • Forecasting and P&L management
  • Manage 3 direct reports overseeing both the consumer and behaviour change divisions
  • Leading on major clients, light touch on various other clients
  • New business development and BD leadership across the business
 
Skills and Experience:
 
  • 12+ years communications/PR/brand/creative agency experience
  • General Management experience, or similar, leading multiple teams and overseeing operations, client services and business development in an agency setting
  • Proven experience maintaining and growing major clients
  • Strong commercial acumen; forecasting, financial planning
  • Experience overseeing all business operations, managing workflow and driving productivity across the team
  • Experience collaborating on business strategy and driving initiatives to ensure targets are met
  • Highly detailed, come with effective systems and processes to drive efficiencies
  • Unflappable, can juggle lots of balls and energise and inspire the team
  • Strong people leaderships skills, human centric approach
  • Integrity, reliability, ambitious and kind
 
How to apply
 
Should this opportunity be of interest to you click on the APPLY button above or contact Lucy Garrido at lucyg@sde.com.au for a confidential discussion.

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