Senior Business Director

4 months ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Clemenger Group Full time

Colenso

Colenso are a creatively-led, culturally-driven agency, founded in 1969 in New Zealand. We help brands from Australia to America and are currently recognised as one of the most creative and effective agencies in the world by the most respected industry commentators in the world. If you believe in the power and authenticity of creativity and culture and want to make things people can't forget, we want to chat.
Senior Business Director is a senior leadership role within the agency, and one of our most important client roles. You are responsible for a strong agency and client relationship based on a common ambition, and one where agency teams are motivated and inspired to produce best in class creative work.
The Senior Business Directors provides leadership and strategic direction, and in addition provides perspective and leadership in the development of the highest possible quality of the product.

**Here are the things we want you to do**:

- Leads your team and your clients to carve out the direction strategically and creatively. You take responsibility for leading the team in achieving the direction.
- Reinforce efforts of Business Directors, Business/ Project Managers/Account Executives both internally and externally.
- You will take responsibility for the financial management and bottom-line accountability including profitability of your accounts, ongoing client satisfaction and team development.
- You'll work in unison with Planning and Creative, as an architect of opportunity — creating markets for our ideas, and enabling creativity with purpose.
- To be known for staying ahead of the curve with products, experiences and innovations, sharing this knowledge to help create and deliver innovative, creative and compelling customer experiences to the digital world with content and interactive components.
- Lead, mentor and grow your integrated delivery teams to consistently design solutions founded on clear strategies and brilliant ideas.
- Identify new business opportunities both with existing clients and within the overall market. From time to time, you will work on special agency projects and client pitches.
- Creates new solutions to answer client business problems or marketing objectives.
- Be a proactive member of the wider agency and Account Management team in all aspects, championing the agency vision and leading initiatives
- Develops and maintains positive and developing client relationships - you know what it takes to make our clients love us

**Here are the things we think you need**:

- 8+ years of agency and team leadership and experience improving and proven ability to juggle multiple jobs whilst maintaining good attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills as a team player with experience training others.
- A passion for creativity and doing great work.
- Ability to think beyond execution and to offer solutions rather than problems.
- Resilience and being calm under pressure.
- Thrive in a busy environment.
- Possess strong communication and presentation skills.
- Be well organised, self-starting and able to prioritise work effectively
- A natural collaborator and people person; participating fully as an integral member of the team, working co-operatively and collaboratively with the team and wider agency.
- Demonstrates high level of commitment and support to both Colenso and the team.

**And here's a list of what makes a good Colenso person**:

- You feel connected to our mission to make work no one else in the world can and our ambition to be the best creative company on the planet that just happens to be based in Auckland
- You have a passion for the quality of work you produce
- You're a self-starter who doesn't need direct supervision to motivate you for success - we believe strongly in building a culture of individual accountability and ownership and need partners that can embrace that
- You have entrepreneurial spirit in that you're comfortable with ambiguity and are energised by the process of creating something that may never been done before
- You're a radiator, not a drain
- You raise your hand, rather than point fingers
- You do the right thing

This position will be based out of 100 College Hill, Freemans Bay, Auckland.

Colenso is dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

The Clemenger Group Supports an inclusive workplace and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds.

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