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• 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.

The Team

The End User Compute team consists of deployed engineers to customer sites and roaming technicians. The team have a strong technical background and can sufficiently handle most technical requests that an end user may log. Success is measured by customer feedback and leading indicators of support health including the age of open tickets.

The Role

As Customer Experience Engineer you will provide end user support for all technology issues and request that are escalated by the customer service analysts. You will ensure customer service agreements are met and provide a single point of contact for ownership of escalated requests and issues. The role will be based in our Sydney office and at our main client’s office in Port Botany, NSW.

Your core responsibilities will consist of:

• Ensuring all policies, procedures and work instructions are followed in the interests of customer satisfaction and contractual obligations in agreed hours.
• Resolve incidents and requests within SLA.
• Escalate to 3rd party support/ vendors where appropriate.
• Initiate and complete problem diagnosis & produce recommendations.
• Produce KBA’s (Knowledge based articles) to enable the Service Desk Analysts to close more cases.
• Enforcing and reviewing process to ensure documentation is current and to initiation escalation as required.
• Implement authorised changes.
• Diagnosing issues and provide solutions, utilising knowledge entries where possible.
• Maintaining accurate ICT spares inventory.
• Providing remote diagnostic troubleshooting and checks for customer incidents.

What will you bring?

• Strong technical understanding of LAN/WAN/Voice/Security/Server/Desktop technologies with demonstrable experience in one or more technologies.
• Possess a strong understanding of ITIL processes.
• Australia drivers licence is required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to priorities a high demanding workload and conscientious of time management.
• Pride yourself on being a self-starter who works well under pressure with high attention to detail.
• Exhibit outstanding customer management skills.
• Have a passion and desire to develop and share knowledge.

As a valued member of ‘Logicalis Australia’ you will enjoy several benefits, such as;

• Supportive team environment: Confidential pulse checks tell us we are known for being "Unselfish with knowledge", "Flexible and Diverse" and "Give a shout-out and there will always be help"
• Pick your own adventure: Our people have moved from Help-desk to Cloud-Engineering. Admin to Project/Program Management. Project Management to Product Development. If something interests you, we’ll fund you to learn it, so you can become it!
• Breadth of experience and purpose: People here can have an idea, make a plan, and see it through. Our people enjoy genuinely impacting change and controlling their professional success.
• Flexible, modern, working arrangements: Find your own method for collaboration and productivity to achieve a happy balance.

*Do I need to meet all the requirements to apply?*
Studies by several different sources have shown that, on average, men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. In contrast, women/non-binary people will seek to match a much higher percentage of the requirements before applying.

We encourage everyone to apply and give us a chance to evaluate your skills and experience. We are all learning on the job, and although the listing above has been carefully compiled, we are also open-minded and interested to hear about the value you can bring to the role and Logicalis.

*How can I demonstrate that I have particular needs in the application process?*
For people living with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or neurodiversity, adjustments and support can make a decisive difference in the application process. If you need any specific accommodations (tools, time, etc.) and feel comfortable disclosing this, please let us know.

Sinch MessageMedia provides innovative mobile messaging solutions that help businesses of all sizes – from SMBs to enterprise-level to better connect with customers. Our messaging solutions for alerts and notifications, billing and payments, appointment reminders, marketing, and staff scheduling are trusted by over 65,000 customers in industries such as healthcare, education, retail, and utilities. With offices across Australia, United States, United Kingdom, and New Zealand, MessageMedia is the number one choice for easy and engaging business messaging.

Sinch, the Customer Communications Cloud, powers meaningful conversations at scale across messaging, voice, and email to help businesses deliver unified, personalized experiences that truly revolve around their customers — no matter the channels they use. Over 150,000 businesses, including 8 of the 10 largest tech companies in the world, rely on us for their customer communication needs, with over 700 billion customer engagements each year.

The Ecosystems Domain within Sinch MessageMedia aims to ensure that businesses can foster relationships with their customer base in their existing flow of work through simple and logical cross-platform integrations. This role sits within a distributed team between Melbourne and Auckland spearheading the creation of new systems to broaden the integration capacity of our messaging platforms. The team builds and runs all their own software and aims to abstract away commonalities to create a robust and consistent user experience. In this role, you will own your build from implementation design to testing and release, and look after post-release through the tracking of metrics such as error rates, server load and response times. Using these metrics and through an understanding of the product and the businesses that use it, you will work to improve the software and our customer satisfaction.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop high performing solutions that scale in production environments.
• Design solution options and present these to your team.
• Review pull-requests and provide constrictive feedback.
• Work in a scrum team and contribute to breaking down cards in grooming, understand your velocity in planning and provide feedback in retrospectives.
• Understand our customers’ usage and requirements of our software.
• Work with AWS and other cloud services to build, deploy and manage projects currently in production.
• Help associate engineers improve their skills and knowledge.
• Assist in incident support and help the team resolve issues in production environments, joining the paid on-call roster to ensure out-of-hours remediation.

The successful candidate will have proven ability to develop good quality code that has high levels of test coverage. Programmatically configure cloud infrastructure and deploy services to staging and production environments. You are a good communicator and are able to address the issues that can occur through asynchronous dialogue or remote team members. You understand the software development life cycle and the Sinch MessageMedia processes that accompany it. You understand that being an engineer isn't just lines of code written. Solution options, planning, documentation, monitoring, automation and incident management are all part of the role. You have proven experience in Java with a sound understanding of NodeJS & Typescript ecosystems and exposure to front end technologies such as ReactJS.

We dream big — for our company, our customers, and our employees — and we hire the best talent worldwide to help us bring our vision to life. We have a local presence in more than 60 countries — probably somewhere near you!

We are committed to building an engaged and talented workforce that represents an environment that is inclusive, supports flexibility and welcomes diversity.

Our values of Dream Big, Win Together, Keep it simple and Make it Happen are the foundation for fostering an environment where diversity of thinking, skills and experiences are embraced, delivering innovation and better business results.

We value our team by offering:

• Flexible, hybrid work arrangement
• Generous parental leave program: 26 weeks salary for primary care giver and 4 weeks salary for secondary care giver
• Access to Reward+ program
• A day off for your birthday
• Wellness programs
• Coaching and career development support, including access to a range of online professional development courses
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program
• Global mobility policy
• Monthly fitness reimbursement
• Volunteer leave
• Work from home set up reimbursement

If you are looking for the next opportunity in your career and want to work for a people focused, growing tech company, then Apply Now.

Our people love to work for us, here’s why! 

• Officially B-Corp Certified, a Certified Great Place to Work 2023 and 2021 Best Workplaces winner! 
• Competitive salary, free weekly lunches, awesome social events (including a social club – winery tours to museum tours), flexible working arrangements, and amazing headquarters in the CBD. 
• Receive mentoring and coaching from industry leaders and plenty of opportunities for growth and promotion. 
• Learning and development including internal and external training programs to build your career skills. 
• An inclusive and diverse workplace culture centered on health, wellbeing and fun. 
• The ability to salary sacrifice for their very own BlueRock shares 
• Gym membership after one year of tenure and mobile phone allowance after 6 months! 
• We have our very own BlueRock public holidays to give our people the day off, on us! 

For more amazing perks of working at BlueRock and employee benefits – head to our careers page!

How to apply

If this sounds like you, then please click on the "Apply" button and follow the prompts. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet every single point on the job description – please still apply. We’d love to see if you could be a great fit and we can't wait to meet you!   

For any questions regarding this opportunity or if you require adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected]. 

BlueRock is a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant. 

For this role, only candidates with the eligible right to work in Australia will be considered. 

Please be advised that BlueRock or any of its related or controlled entities do not accept unsolicited contact or resumes from Recruitment Agencies.   

Even in 2023 it needs to be said, BlueRock is a workplace committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, citizenship, colour, disability, gender and gender identity, marital status, nationality, race, sexual orientation, or veteran status.