Business Director | Auckland-NZ
13-Oct-2025
OMG/1886566
Auckland-NZ
| Category: | Client Service - Account Director |
| Position Type: | Full Time Permanent |
| Business Unit: | PHD |
| Attachments: | No File Attached |
| Application Close Date: | 12-Nov-2025 |
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Job Description
Hāere mai ki PHD Aotearoa!
Interested in joining our award-winning team?
PHD's reputation as a fantastic place to work is widely recognised, from our limitless learning and development opportunities across an enviable client list and agency specialisms, to our fun culture and inclusive environment.
Amongst the wider industry, we are equally renowned as the media agency delivering clients an unfair advantage. Behind this advantage is our unique winning formula - a handpicked winning team of experts, backed by a comprehensive suite of best-in-class services, advanced products, and innovative technology.
As our newest PHD'er, what would this mean for you? You'd get to deliver this advantage to clients through your mahi, talents, skills, and ‘play to win' attitude while keeping yourself future fit and having a phenomenal time.
As for other agency benefits loved by the PHD team? There's our free life insurance and discounted health insurance and gym memberships, and a wellness program keeping us all happy and healthy, birthday and long weekend gift day programs which bump up our leave days, along with an annual calendar of industry, social, and cultural celebration events.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, neurodivergent status, religion, and/or beliefs, and all applicants are valued for the talents, expertise, experience, and perspective they offer.
We'd love to tell you more about PHD and the role, and encourage you to apply through the job ad.
About the role
PHD's Management Team's performance is critical to our market perception and business health. This team is tasked with creating a recognised market-leading position in communications planning, strategic approach, implementational and executional management, and client servicing.
Internally, the Business Director engages senior PHD stakeholders in the client portfolio where appropriate to ensure clients have a breadth of relationships within PHD.
Skills & Experience
- Preferably tertiary qualified; supplemented by 7-11 years of media planning & buying experience
- Good understanding of media fundamentals and strategic planning capabilities
- Strong client-facing communication & presentation skills
- Client lead experience
- Business revenue driving ability
- People leadership experience
- Proven ability to deliver against a client's business plan and contract, including maximising agency performance via agreed KPIs
- The ability to develop and sell new revenue streams (such as SBUs) to your client
- Total quality control for all output delivered to the client
- Great attention to detail - you understand that we need to be paid and to do so, the detail needs to be right, you believe account queries in your team are unacceptable
- Ability to balance priorities to ensure disparate groups are brought together to deliver great work
- Ability to clearly brief and articulate client goals to media owners to deliver best-in-market responses
- Ability to train and mentor, and manage team members of all ability levels
If this sounds like you, please apply directly via the job ad ASAP.