PR Account Director
Partale, New Zealand
Job Description
Global Brands Consumer and Brand Reputation
- Learn and grow with exceptional PR leaders and Mumbrella amp; Bamp;T’s PR Agency of the Year
- Lead some of New Zealand’s smartest PR Consultants of the Future across a dynamic consumer and corporate portfolio fully integrating digital PR and creative services
- Be inspired working with the world’s biggest campaigns executing enviable global campaigns in travel/tourism, technology and retail and big-name consumer brands
- Influence agency culture with new ideas and innovations
- Collaborate with teams across NZ amp; AU
Your Opportunity:
As an Account Director at Thrive New Zealand, you will play a key senior role on some of the agency’s most prestigious and iconic brands in the world, including LEGO, GoPro, and Spotlight, to name a few. This is a chance to be a part of consistent growth and innovation with one of New Zealand and Australia’s most revered public relations and communications agencies sitting at the intersection of digital, consumer/brand and business/purpose PR.
- You will work with some of the world’s biggest brands in tech, travel and tourism, automotive and more.
- You will have the opportunity to lead and be a part of New Zealand’s team of specialists executing on strategy, creative and being involved with all aspects of execution and client servicing.
- You will work closely with New Zealand’s Lead, where you will be exposed to the inner workings of the agency, learn how to achieve commercial goals and influence the agency and team’s success.
- You will have the platform to step into challenging new opportunities as they arise across the agencies putting your hand up for passion projects and new business efforts.
Managing a team amp; clients.
In this role you will mentor some of the smartest PR amp; social consultants in the country while managing a small number of clients who respect and value the work we do. You are exceptional at proactive client counsel, spontaneous with ideas, a great writer and will invest time growing your network and leveraging the extensive community around Thrive and you love keeping your finger on the pulse with daily news, are a media relations guru with exceptional experience delivering campaigns with technology and news journalists along with broadcast media and new independent media outlets. You love the thrill of delivering high-profile events with influencers and integrated social/digital and are curious to learn more about running teams and being front and centre of new business pitches. You will love ideating to challenge BAU on account, and have an appetite for learning new strategic and creative skills including a genuine interest in protecting and building brand reputations and most of all, you love being in the detail and part of an exceptional team!
Learn amp; grow.
You’ll participate in ongoing learning and development opportunities delivered across the agency (think AI playoffs through to high-profile speakers) in addition to tailored internal and external training to help you develop technical, commercial and broader EQ skills.
You will be thirsty to learn and grow from not only exceptional people around you, but from your clients who will provide unrivalled opportunities on a global scale.
Your experience, approach amp; impact.
- You share our values: you’re passionate, accountable, curious, of high integrity and you thrive on collaboration with a #OneTeam approach.
- You are positive, have an energetic approach to your work and are a natural problem solver who is known for managing exceptional client relations.
- You are a clever thinker who comes from agency amp;/or in-house roles with 8+ years experience who’s constantly thinking’what if?’ and ‘what else?’
- You hustle internally and externally to get the job done, grow your client portfolio and deliver PR work that sets you and the agency apart.
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, love our diverse and inclusive workplace and we continue to welcome Thrive 'boomerangs’ back to the agency. Thrive has a clear vision and mission and has grown by continuing to diversify and be early adopter of technology and global trends. Thrive is not a ‘hot then not’ agency. We are not an ad agency trying to be earned specialists. We are uniquely Thrive helping our people, brands and community to do just that. Our team is made up of in-house media, creative and digital specialists who work across five