AddressM&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is the PR and partnership agency within the M&C Saatchi Group. We are a full-service passion marketing agency that connects brands to Australians through the things they love. We’re dedicated, smart and collaborative experts in our field. We're passionate about coming together to create and realise big ambitions for some of the largest brands in the country.
As part of the M&C Saatchi Group we come together to realise BIG AMBITIONS. And ours is to be the most connected creative company by organising original thinkers in uncommon ways.
We celebrate people who embrace our values and BIG AMBITIONS and the opportunity is here now for a Account Director to join our team in Sydney.
The opportunity:
As M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment's Senior Account Director, you drive fully integrated campaigns, leveraging all agency specialisms like PR, influencers, partnerships, social, content, and experiential.
Leading major clients, your passion for sports, entertainment, and culture guides you in creating distinctive, award-winning campaigns that deliver measurable results. Employing an earned-first approach and maximising rights, you connect with consumer passion points, collaborating with Strategy, Creative, and Specialist Leads to optimise campaign effectiveness.
A snapshot of what you'll do:
- Overseeing planning, ensuring high-quality execution, and delivering results aligned with client briefs.
- Establishes trusted relationships with existing and new clients to develop and deliver world-class work that maximises our agency’s capabilities.
- Takes on the role of main POC with key clients for any new briefs, anticipating opportunities and challenges, and proactively troubleshooting to prevent issues.
- Work closely with Strategy, Creative and Specialist Leads to contribute best-in-class partnership ideas and opportunities to creative briefs and responses.
- Plays a senior role in the agency, driving briefs and project direction, pushing the team to create ideas and fresh thinking that challenges the status quo.
- Establish trusted relationships with your team and promote a collaborative, team-based culture between departments within the Agency.
Skills & Attributes:
- Inclusive leadership
- Relation mangement
- Commercial acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Presenting & communicating
Your ideal experience:
- Demonstrable experience of taking the strategic lead on major partnership and sponsorship deals and delivering outcomes that deliver above client expectation.
- Experience working with major media / rights holders, brand collaborations and ambassadors.
- Experience building and leading relationships across both large and small clients.
- Experience leading client relationships with exposure to Board-level decision makers.
- Proven experience of working collaboratively with Creative, Strategy and Comms teams to develop and sell ideas.
- Business/Marketing degree or equivalent.
What WE value MOST:
- Walk in different worlds
- Make Uncommon Sense
- Run Towards the Fire (except if there is an actual fire when we run away from it)
- Roll as one
- Be excellent to each other
Best bits about working with us:
Our big benefits fuel our big ambitions. We’re here to support and encourage our people at every turn. Our commitment to your individual needs stems from our diverse Flexible Flexibility work approach, flexing to how you want to work and how you want to take your leave. You’ll be saying "hello holidays" with our flexible public holidays, summer half days and even extra leave for taking your leave. And, to further our support to you, Family First, Health and Wellness paid leave are on offer, along with our Work From Anywhere in the world initiative (so you can stay connected across the globe). Plus, you can join our inclusive community led networks, supporting things you care about and your cultural and social wellbeing.
We’re committed to building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and LGBTQIA+ people. Our flexible work approach, employee-led diversity networks and inclusive career development approach all support and promote one of our core values ‘Walk in Different Worlds’ which helps describe our overall DE&I mission. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let our team know.
WHAT ARE YOUR BIG AMBITIONS?
We’d love to hear what your ambitions are and how we can help you realise them with us!
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