Business Manager

Do you want to make a meaningful commercial impact on an international creative community?

Are you ready to flex your skills in financial and performance management with a team of experts in their field?

Do you want to work in a company whose purpose is to provide exceptional service to artists and their clients while improving the lives of the people who work there?

The Jacky Winter Group is seeking an experienced Business/Operations Manager to help lead us into our second decade.

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Key Details

🔖 Initially an 18 month contract role, with opportunity to rollover to permanent thereafter.

⏰ Full Time, Monday – Friday.

📍 Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia.

🚃 This is an on-site role with flexibility for 1-2 days remote after one month training period. It’s important that the applicant is located in, or close to, Melbourne.

Hiring Timeline

🛑 Applications will be reviewed up until Monday 29 April 2024

🤞 All applicants will be notified of status no later than Friday May 3, 2024

🏁 Applicant can start any time! Though ideally no later than Monday 27 May, 2024

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About us

Established in 2007, The Jacky Winter Group (http://jackywinter.com/) is a next-gen artist representation agency with offices in the USA, UK and Australia, housing over a hundred commercial artists. We have a growing First Nations roster called Solid Lines (http://solidlines.agency/), as well as a freelance production service for artists called Choreus (http://choreus.co/). We solicit and produce over a thousand creative briefs a year globally, ranging from highly visual campaigns and animated commercials, to editorial, publishing and environmental installations. We cater to corporations and brands, advertising agencies, publishers and design studios who are looking to create stunning artwork to elevate their space, product, brand or marketing message. We have always been ambitious in what we offer, punching above our weight with a small and expert team to deliver outstanding creative and financial results for our clients and artists.

Position overview

It is a truly exciting time at Jacky Winter. We have been working on projects that are bigger than ever before, with the largest number of talent and staff we’ve had since we started 17 years ago.

In this inaugural role you will be the day-to-day manager of our talent agency, which comprises 15 team members across AUS, US and UK, reporting to our Founding Director only.

Your leadership and accountability will allow the Founding Director to focus more on special projects and innovation, eventually stepping away from the day-to-day remit. You will look out for the sustainable future of the business, starting with our financial modelling and reporting processes.

Alongside this work, you’ll be managing our Australian production team, supporting their continued success in sourcing and converting new business for our artists.

You’ll be a grounding and motivating member of our team, championing our artists and the work we do.

Your capabilities

• Financial management experience, growing and structuring a multi-region small business.
• A proven capability of making sales targets and growing revenue.
• Problem solving and risk assessment skills, in order to find ways to move forward with the business’s goals and values front of mind.
• Proficiency in Xero or other financial reporting tools.
• Prior hands-on experience pricing and producing creative projects.

Your approach

• A coaching-forward approach to management. You’ll love lifting people up and have had experience managing people in creative, project-based environments. You’ll use your flexible skills to adapt to an existing team, with our goals and values as a guiding principle.
• You’ll work at a light jog pace with no trouble maintaining momentum whilst conducting yourself calmly, slow down to speed up is our motto.
• Warm, expressive and action-oriented communications both in writing and in person.
• Open minded, curious and adaptive. We are a unique business with unique challenges, you’ll thrive in this role if you can bring a “yes, and” improv energy to the tasks at hand.
• A humble and confident leader, who emphasises the team rather than the individual.
• A genuine passion for creative business strategy and development for artists, translating to a strong work ethic.
• An ability to find purpose and meaning in even the most mundane tasks, in order to motivate yourself and the wider team.
• A genuine knack for synthesising complex or top line ideas into actionable tasks and processes in a creative, tech-led company.

We make work, work for you:

•  The loveliest bunch of people to work with, in an inspiring and future-thinking environment.
• Hybrid office and work from home options.
• Fastest tech and processes for performing tasks, including a custom CRM and Macbook.
• Walking and standing desk.
• Meditation/quiet space.
• Friday group lunches.
• Annual stay in one of our residences (http://jackywinterplaces.com/).
• Healthy work life balance.
• Ad-hoc performance based bonuses.

When applying for this role via seek, please include a short cover letter that speaks directly to this position.

Tell us about yourself, about what you can bring to Jacky Winter, and about Jacky Winter's role in your future. Tell us about something you’ve done, something that’s relevant to the kind of work we do, something that excites you. Overall, be descriptive, but don’t write a novel — 500 words or so is plenty. Please also include your desired salary range based on the current job description. We cannot assess applications without this information. Thank you!

To learn more about The Jacky Winter Group, visit jackywinter.com