Address- Learn and grow with exceptional PR leaders and Mumbrella & B&T’s PR Agency of the Year
- Lead some of Australia’s smartest PR Consultants of the Future across a dynamic consumer and business/purpose portfolio fully integrating digital PR and creative services
- Be inspired by working on enviable global campaigns in financial services, travel/tourism, technology, retail and big name brands
- Influence agency culture with new ideas and innovations
- Collaborate with teams across AU & NZ
Your Opportunity.
As an Account Director at Thrive Melbourne you will play a key senior role on some of the agency’s most prestigious and highest profile brands in the world across both consumer and corporate public relations.
- Global Brands Consumer & Business/Purpose Focus
- A chance to be a part of consistent growth and innovation with one of Australia’s most revered public relations agencies sitting at the intersection of digital, consumer/brand and business / purpose PR.
- Working with some of the world’s biggest brands in tech, financial services, motoring and consumer lifestyle you will have the opportunity to lead and be a part of a core Melbourne team of specialists executing on strategy, creative and being involved with all aspects of execution and client servicing.
- You will sit on Thrive’s local Senior Leadership Team where you will be exposed to the inner workings of the agency, learn how to achieve commercial goals and influence the agency and team’s success.
In this role you will have the platform to step into challenging new opportunities as they arise across the agencies putting your hand up for passion projects and new business efforts.
Managing a team & clients.
- Mentor some of the smartest PR & social consultants in the country while managing a small number of clients who respect and value the work we do.
- Proven success in proactive client counsel, spontaneous with ideas, a great writer and will invest time growing your network and leveraging the extensive community around Thrive.
- You love keeping your finger on the pulse with daily news, be a media relations guru with exceptional experience delivering campaigns with technology and news journalists along with broadcast media and new independent media outlets.
- You will also love the thrill of delivering high profile events with influencers and integrated social/digital.
- Desire to be curious to learn more about running teams and being involved in new business pitches, will love ideating to challenge BAU on accounts, and will have an appetite for learning new strategic and creative skills including a genuine interest in protecting and building brand reputations.
Learn & Grow.
- Participate in ongoing learning and development opportunities delivered across the agency (think AI playoffs through to high profile speakers) in addition to tailored internal and external training to help you develop technical, commercial and broader EQ skills.
You will be thirsty to learn and grow from not only exceptional people around you, but from your clients who will provide unrivaled opportunities on a global scale.
Your Experience, Approach & Impact
You share our values : you’re passionate, accountable, curious, of high integrity and you thrive on collaboration with a #OneTeam approach.
- Positive energetic approach to your work and a natural solutions focused mindset, known for managing exceptional client relations.
- A clever thinker who comes from agency &/or inhouse roles with 8+ years experience who’s constantly thinking…’what if?’ and ‘what else?’, with the ability to hustle internally and externally to get the job done, grow your client portfolio and deliver PR work that sets you and the agency apart.
This is Thrive.
Culture is everything. It's a reason why we have a 100% return rate by working parents, have had consistent leadership for more than two decades, embrace diversity in our workplace and we continue to welcome Thrive 'boomerangs' back to the agency. Thrive has a clear vision and mission and has grown by continuing to diversify and be early adopters of technology and global trends. We are uniquely Thrive helping our people, brands and community to do just that. Our team is made up of in-house media, creative and digital specialists who work across five locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Auckland delivering strategic communications services for brands including: LEGO, ANZ Group, Cisco, ASUS, Tinder, Harley Davidson, and GoPro.
Thrive values work-life integration including hybrid flexible working (Mondays and Fridays work-from-home) and delivers many benefits including an additional annual wellness leave day, work from any location, Thursday 4pm Thrive O'Clock, early Friday knock-off, various bonus options and more.
Visit us here for more information - @thrivepr / www.thrivepr.com.au
CVs to people@thrivepr.com.au.
