Group Media Partnerships Director | Sydney-NSW

Job Description

As a Group Media Partnerships Director, you are a critical leader in shaping and executing the national partnerships strategy. You will be responsible for driving strong relationships with media partners, ensuring commercial excellence, and delivering innovative solutions that yield tangible results for our clients. You will foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning, undertaking a solutions-focused approach to position the agency as the partner most favored by its stakeholders.

What you'll do:

• Drive the development and execution of the national partnerships strategy, ensuring
• alignment with emerging market opportunities and trends.
• Maintain expert knowledge of the media landscape, identifying emerging trends and
• opportunities across all channels.
• Provide strategic insights and thought leadership to clients and internal teams through market updates, trade press articles, white papers, and presentations.
• Proactively identify and evaluate innovative investment opportunities that align with client objectives, leading the evolution of the agency's investment product to meet future needs.
• Cultivate and maintain strong, respectful strategic relationships with senior media partners across all channels
• Identify and explore new revenue streams through strategic partnerships and product innovation.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities to drive commercial growth, while monitoring investment volume and ensuring delivery of contractual commitments.
• Develop and implement strategies to optimize client pricing, ensuring maximum value is delivered. This includes the roll out of agency partnership opportunities

What you'll need:

• Proven experience in media partnerships, and investment
• Strong understanding of the Australian media landscape and emerging trends.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with senior media partners.
• Excellent negotiation and both verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Proven leadership, team management and collaboration skills.
• A track record of driving commercial growth and delivering client success

What's in it for you?

• Access to top tier clients and complex business challenges
• Continuous development through our mixed learning approach
• All the tools, equipment and mentors you need to be successful in your role
• Our organisation encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives
• We have a bright, open plan and dog friendly office (we love our furry friends)
• We encourage and fully support flexible working
• Parental leave
• Fun social events - Annual ski trips

A little bit about us...

We are a proud part of the OMD global network, the world's leading marketing and communications agency. As part of the Omnicom Media Group, we provide services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries and employ 11,000+ staff.

Since launching in 2000, OMD Australia has grown to become Australia's largest media and communications agency, consistently winning awards including:

Great Place to Work | Platinum Status: Top 50 for 15 consecutive years (2009-2024)

B&T | Media Agency of the Year 2019, 2020 & 2021, Culture 2020

B&T Women in Media | Employer of the Year 2019 & 2020

Adnews | Media Agency of the Year 2020, Overall Agency of the Year 2020

Mumbrella | Media Agency of the Decade 2009 - 2019, Culture 2019

Adweek | Global Media Agency of the Year 2019 & 2020

Next steps

Sound exactly like the sort of role for you? Apply now!

If you've got any questions or wish to have a confidential conversation about this role, contact the Talent team. We'd love to hear from you.

We are a committed Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and are dedicated to ensuring that all employees, and prospective employees, can work in an environment that is free from any form of employment discrimination based on race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, physical or mental impairment/disability or any other status. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.