Total 23 public relations executive job vacancies in Legal / Public / Security category in VIC - Melbourne - Bayside & Peninsula Suburbs

Looking for something refreshing and new?
Come and join an agency for the ambitious.

Praytell is a global creative communications agency built by big ideas and brilliant people. We create timely, integrated, headline-worthy campaigns across earned, social, digital, and more. We were born in Brooklyn, New York 10 years ago and have been cooking up award-winning work ever since. Here in Australia, we’re just warming up. 

Globally, we’re a team of 150+ creatives, creators, storytellers, and strategists working from across the U.S., U.K., and Australia. 

Here in Australia, we’re on the hunt for a senior PR and comms leader seeking a flexible and adaptable agency leadership role, to help accelerate the growth ambitions of our multi-disciplinary team as an initial maternity leave cover, with plenty of flex and long-term opportunity. 

The Gig 

We’re looking for a senior leader with a proven track record growing an agency or integrated comms department, who is energised by the opportunity to accelerate our agency’s growth trajectory in Australia. Collaborating closely with senior team members and global leaders, you’ll lead agency and new business development, provide strategic leadership to our partners, champion culture, and mentor our growing team. 

As a talented, ambitious, and empathetic leader, you’re focused on doing great work with great people and may be looking to step back into agency land in a flexible and part-time capacity. 

We’re eager to work with the right person to shape the role and flexible working arrangements, but are envisioning a three-day working week equivalent with dedicated focus areas of new business, strategic client leadership, and team mentorship. 

You will: 

• Be laser-focused on the growth and development of our blossoming and multi-disciplinary creative comms team, including proactive new business and network development. 
• Offer strategic creative comms leadership for select partners in our client portfolio, which includes global travel and tourism, lifestyle and wellness, retail, telco, and not-for-profit brands and organisations. 
• Lead or support new business and client presentations, working alongside our team to build and review strategic deliverables and provide senior counsel in key presentations and meetings.
• Work closely with our senior team and global leaders in pursuit of excellence across the agency, championing culture and L&D for our hard-working crew. 

Sound Interesting? 

We’re (very) intentionally offering what we hope is a more adaptable and flexible leadership role, in the hopes of attracting energised leaders looking to apply their talent and experience in a different way. If this sounds like you, and you have the track record to boot – reach out, let’s talk. 

Ideally, you have: 

• Senior agency leadership experience, ideally in an emerging to mid-size agency setting
• A strong industry network readily engaged for new business opportunities, partnerships and recruitment
• A modern, energised, and inspiring leadership style 
• An excellent sense of humour 
• Appetite to roll up your sleeves and make magic happen alongside a tight-knit and dedicated team

The Praytell Advantage

Why join Praytell Australia? 

• We’re a global agency that’s just warming up in Australia. We work under one global P&L – which means access to world-class thinking, tech and tools, global insights, and networking, along with the mandate and ambition to build something uniquely Australian (and awesome) championed by our growing local team. 
• Creative isn’t just a department here. We’re constantly looking for ways to improve the way we work, challenge the status quo, and leave the industry a little better than we found it. That culminates in our global DEI initiatives, including our inaugural Praytell Intownships program here in Australia.  
• We work hard to foster a thoroughly flexible working environment which culminates in our “40 by Friday” work week (ask us about this, and we’ll happily share more!)
• We believe you do your best work where works for you, so we operate a hybrid schedule, splitting our time across our Cremorne, Melbourne office and chosen ‘work from home’ locations. 
• With offices across the U.S., U.K., and Australia, as well as many sister agencies across our Project Worldwide network, there are opportunities for global collaboration and immersion – including our personal favourite, Camp Praytell (this year, we headed to Nashville, Tennessee for our company offsite). 
• We have a flexible time off policy which includes 20 days annual leave per year, in addition to Christmas to New Year’s Day as gifted holidays. 
• Parental leave benefits and flexible return to work arrangements that we’re proud of. 
• Access to our employee assistance program, which includes mental health support and counselor access for you and your family.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome everyone at Praytell and do not discriminate. Period. All qualified applicants will receive consideration in accordance with state and federal legal requirements, and because it’s the right thing to do. We take the responsibility of caring for our employees seriously and offer benefits that prove it - flexible time off (we truly mean it!), flexible schedules

What you’ll do:

Join carsales as a PR Manager (12 month maternity leave cover). Working within the marketing and content team, you will also engage with various internal departments across the organisation and collaborate closely with our Global Corporate Affairs team. This role will be responsible for:

• Developing and implementing comprehensive PR strategies and campaigns aimed at increasing our company's brand image and reputation, thought leadership, and visibility within the industry.
• Nurture and maintain relationships with both consumer and trade focused media outlets, bloggers, influencers, and community partners to secure positive coverage and endorsements.
• Collaborate with internal subject matter experts and stakeholders to craft and distribute media releases and press material.
• Identify and leverage opportunities for thought leadership and speaking engagements at industry conferences, events, and forums to showcase our expertise and insights.
• Increase visibility of our brand through industry leading events and awards, as well as seek opportunities for us to  elevate our brand at events through activations, sponsorships and/or speaking engagements.
• Proactively monitor industry trends, regulatory developments, and competitive landscape, and leverage insights to inform PR strategies and messaging. 

Your new role and how you’ll make a difference

This position is responsible for the provision of guidance and leadership to the Public Access Centre (PAC) team; ensuring an exceptional level of customer service to both internal and external customers of illion; and delivering quality collaboration and consultation with internal and external stakeholders in the ongoing effort of process improvement, leadership and capability uplift. 

The value-add things you’ll be doing

• Lead the Learning and development planning process for all direct and indirect reports. 
• Lead efforts to improve illion customer experience. 
• Coach the team in best practice management of support requests for all Customers and stakeholders (internal and external). 
• Accurately maintain and distribute all daily, weekly, quarterly and annual team reports in a timely manner. 
• Accurately maintain and distribute all monthly individual reports in a timely manner. 
• Conduct ad hoc reporting as needed. 
• Provide process leadership where required for each of the processes maintained by the PAC team. 
• For selected processes found to be inefficient:  
• Document current process.  
• Provide process improvement recommendations. 
• Implement process improvements. 

• A unique career-defining opportunity to join and lead one of Melbourne’s most established, innovative and award-winning AU/NZ agencies
• Drive integrated earned-first communications including social and content
• Innovate and define our PR Agency of the Future strategy across corporate and consumer comms
• Collaborate on the Trans-Tasman Leadership Team working with the most talked about local and global brands
• Join a culture that embraces growth and diversity and with ambition that is Limited by Nothing

LOCATION: Melbourne

We are uniquely Thrive helping our people, brands and community to do just that.  We use the power of communications to help our people, partners and community to grow and be successful.

Born and bred in Melbourne, and with offices across AU & NZ, Thrive is a public relations industry powerhouse and for the first time in the company’s 23-year history, we are recruiting externally for a Business Director to lead our Melbourne team.

This is not your everyday opportunity. This is a chance to work directly with Thrive’s Executive and learn why we are Mumbrella PR Agency of the Year and B&T PR Agency of the Year 2022 and how we came to be awarded the Dan Wieden Titanium Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which celebrates game-changing creativity, for our work with The Monkeys for Tuvalu, ‘The First Digital Nation’.

This role is a career-defining opportunity to lead our Melbourne location as 2IC to the Executive Director, Melbourne. You will be supported by 25+ consultants as you lead client and team growth and retention while driving new business with the support of national specialist squads.  You will partner with our local and global corporate and consumer clients to devise their communications strategies while leaning into national resources to deliver creative and digital integration impacting our clients’ business goals.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated integrated comms Business Director who is well connected in Victoria with business connections and with the media and who can create new opportunities that take our agency to new heights. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in the PR industry, across both corporate and consumer PR and have solid social media and creative content experience. The person must demonstrate strategic thinking, business acumen and have strong leadership skills with proven capability to grow a client portfolio.

This role will help drive operational process excellence, ensuring key stages of projects are executed efficiently and within budget, with a strong commercial mindset, managing financial forecasting, profitability and team resourcing.

• Work across a diverse and high-profile  corporate and consumer client portfolio
• Develop and implement strategic plans to drive business growth and achieve financial
• Manage and develop client relationships to deliver client growth
• Identify new market opportunities and trends to stay ahead in the local PR landscape
• Play an active role in lead generation and business development efforts and the conversion of clients
• Devise and oversee the implementation of first-class strategies with their senior reports for clients
• Provide effective leadership to a talented team of PR and social professionals, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Mentor and develop team members, encouraging continuous learning and professional growth
• Oversight of the Melbourne office administration function.

About You

• Australian visa holder - will consider visa sponsorship for a stellar candidate
• Tertiary qualified 12+ years of agency experience in the PR industry
• Proven experience in a senior leadership role within a PR agency delivering integrated earned-first campaigns for global brands
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking
• Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated success in client relationship management and business development
• Ability to inspire and lead a team to achieve exceptional results
• Delivery of best practice multichannel storytelling with exceptional writing skills
• Experience in B2B and B2C storytelling
• Experience delivering in a fast-paced environment and displaying logical thinking, forward planning, and the ability to manage up and down
• An established network of relationships with media, influencers, suppliers and key stakeholders
• Excellent presentation skills
• Team time management and budget experience
• Technology skills (MAC & Google Drive savvy)
• Media measurement/evaluation skills

This is Thrive.

Culture is everything. It's a reason why we have a 100% return rate by working parents, have had consistent leadership for more than two decades, and continue to welcome Thrive 'boomerangs' back to the agency. Our team is made up of in-house media, creative and digital specialists who work across five locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Auckland delivering strategic communications services for brands.

Thrive values work-life integration including hybrid flexible working (currently Mondays and Fridays work-from-home) and delivers many benefits from wellbeing days and initiatives through to early knock-off Fridays. Thrive fosters & supports a work environment that is inclusive as well as diverse, where people can, and are encouraged to, be themselves. Every idea and perspective is welcomed and valued so that our service offering reflects our approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion both internally and externally.

Ready to make waves with us locally and globally?

Visit us here for more information - www.thrivepr.com.au.

If you value accountability, curiosity, integrity, collaboration and are passionate about what you do then our values are aligned. Please apply via LinkedIn or email a cover letter and resume to: [email protected].

All contact with Thrive will be treated confidentially. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.