Role Overview
The Client Strategy Director leads the strategic function for our team, aligned to a specific sales patch to sell and deliver connected, integrated and customized business-oriented solutions and partnerships focused on driving client results.
This role will work with the sales, digital and product teams to generate demand and create market-leading pitches – leveraging assets & brands from across the News Corp Australia portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
* Support a cross-functional team consisting of strategy, solutions, and insights functions that creates valued business partnerships and proactively identifies business opportunities for clients, working with Media and Advertising.
* Work with the sales, digital, and product teams to generate demand and create market-leading pitches – leveraging assets from across the NCA portfolio that deliver on client's business objectives/priorities.
* Develop a strong understanding of client's business drivers to address these needs through strategic advice, data, and insights.
* Provide strategic leadership and direction and take action to build relationships with relevant internal stakeholders and externally with clients and agencies.
* Play a key role in driving and delivering the News Corp commercial strategy.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need:
* Experience within the media, advertising, publishing or marketing industry.
* Substantial experience in media strategy, planning, and execution.
* Understanding of how to lead a team with an eye for talent and ability to identify development opportunities to grow the skills of others.
* Experience in client and category business planning, sales strategies, market pitching, and securing revenue and increasing market share.
* Experience developing end-to-end, strategic commercial solutions and partnerships that drive revenue.
* Knows how to build and nurture relationships internally and externally.
* Ability to negotiate, problem-solve, and overcome issues while maintaining a respectful approach.
* Highly organized with an eye for detail and an acumen for numbers.
* Excellent communication and presentation skills and a keen understanding of how to craft and evolve narratives.
Benefits
As a valued member of our team, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:
* Exclusively Ours – Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family.
* Health & Wellbeing – Advice, support, and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney offices).
* Time Off – News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break, and Compassionate leave.
* Helping You Grow – Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion-focused education series) and recognition.
* Financial Wellbeing – Support on making the most of your money.
* Perks & Discounts – Exclusive offers across a range of products and services.
* Giving Back – Make a difference to our communities.
* Workplace Inclusion and Facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms and parents' rooms.
About Us
We are proud to be Australia's most impactful media group. We're even prouder of what we stand for: Together, we inform, advocate, and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia.
With over 150 brands across news, sport, and lifestyle, backed by a team of more than 5,000 dedicated people across the country, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 17 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek across multiple digital, video, audio, and print platforms.
Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we are passionate, creative, and dynamic. We offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields.