Senior Account Director

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PR Senior Account Director - Melbourne

Are you looking to take the next step in your PR career? Havas Red is looking for a Consumer PR Senior Account Director!

This is an exciting opportunity to:

• Build upon your PR career in an award-winning agency
• Deliver strategic counsel to global brands
• Focus on creativity and develop integrated campaigns
• Solid client base

Having just been awarded AdNews PR Agency of the Year, we’re looking for a Consumer Senior Account Director from a PR agency background to join the growing, award-winning Havas Red team based in Melbourne.

This is a hands-on role — you will be deeply involved in day-to-day account delivery, media engagement, campaign execution and deliver strategic client counsel.

If you have experience working with leading brands and category innovators, with a curious creative eye, and want to work for an exciting mix of high-profile clients with dynamic campaigns, Havas Red is for you.

The role:

• Lead and actively manage a range of clients across both consumer and corporate spaces, predominately within automotive
• Lead the development of highly creative media relations and communications strategies, including driving proactive media pitching and senior media relationships
• Take independent ownership of campaigns, including daily delivery, quality control, approvals and operational problem-solving
• Manage daily operations: project management, timeline delivery, scoping, forecasting, capacity planning, invoicing, resource management and financial reporting
• Partner with Social, Strategy, Creative and Experiential teams to deliver integrated communications plans
• Manage a dynamic team of PR professionals to deliver great results
• Lead by example — combining team mentoring and development with hands-on contribution to outputs when needed

We are looking for:

• 7-8 years’ experience, within PR agencies
• An experienced, trusted partner to clients
• Natural mentor, with a high-energy, inspirational style
• Someone who enjoys being on the tools — writing, pitching, coordinating and engaging in day-to-day delivery
• Strong communications skills/ gravitas
• Sharp eye for what drives conversation and generates news/consumer editorial at scale
• Established relationships with national news, consumer and lifestyle media
• Passion for big ideas and innovative thinking
• High attention to detail with extensive operational experience
• Experience partnering with large multi-national brands
• Exposure to integrated agency teams ideal
• Solid commercial acumen, know how to be commercially accountable to business
• Previous automotive experience would be advantageous but is not essential

Why Havas Red?

Part of the global Havas network, Havas Red is one of Australia’s leading integrated communications agencies.

Our vision is to be the most trusted partner for Australia’s leading brands and category innovators looking to meaningfully shape the future through the people-powered stories, connections and experiences we create.

Havas Red values a human approach to culture, a dedication to each other and the work, and a curious mind that’s forever discovering.

Sound like you?

About Havas

The Havas Village is a unique model — creative, digital, content, PR, media and partnerships, all under one roof. We build teams around our clients’ needs, not our own structures, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Our mission? To make a meaningful difference to the brands, businesses and lives of the people we work with. We’re proud to be a Great Place to Work Certified company.

At HAVAS, we are committed to building a future that is inclusive to all, where you can bring your whole self to work and feel valued, respected, and supported to succeed. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, identities, beliefs, age, and abilities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to apply for this or any role with us.

We look forward to meeting you.

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Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.