Total 14 Director/C-Level PR / Media / Communications job vacancies in Melrose Park

• Act as a strategic business advisor guiding a company's long-term financial strategy.
• Communicate organisation's financial and business information to investor community.
• Connect underlying complex non-financial drivers of a business to financial information through analytics.
• Drive down effective tax rates.
• Drive forecasting and budgeting to align the finance function with the strategic vision of the business.
• Ensure organisation complies with regulations involving the filing of their financial and tax statements.
• Ensure that budgets are able to support and are sustainable to match strategic goals.
• Evaluate Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) opportunities to create shareholder value.
• Find new ways to sustain performance and grow the business.
• Lead effective communication to engage stakeholders for matters arising from risk, controls and compliance.
• Lead efforts in the radical redesign of core business processes to achieve significant improvement in productivity and efficiency.
• Lead finance teams on the technical and quality aspects of financial reporting.
• Lead organisation to develop strategic priorities, culture and governance.
• Manage risks by taking an integrated view of all the various uncertainties that exist across an organisation.
• Manage the risks of the whole M&A process.
• Manage working relationship with various stakeholders.
• Oversee the organisation's financial reporting function.
• Provide executive support to the Board of Directors with financial and non-financial information.
• Use analytics to support business growth and needs, as well as identify potential problems in advance as part of risk management.
• Use predictive analytics as an enabler to forecast future performance and perform stress testing on business lines.

About the Role

With 7+ years of related industry (social media/ PR agency / in-house client communications) experience, you have a solid foundation of managing clients and developing senior level client relationships. You’re driven by our mission to make our clients’ brands and businesses matter, and fundamentally believe that creativity and earning influence for our clients have the power to change fortunes. You are becoming a trusted advisor to clients, which means you have a track record of delivering consistently to a high standard while striking the right balance between protecting client and agency interests. Clients discuss business issues with you looking for your advice. You’re adept at leveraging your relationships with internal and external stakeholders to overcome any obstacles for your project. You are also an up-and-coming leader that believes in nurturing and empowering your junior team members to elevate their careers and a well-respected team member that your peers and juniors look up to.

What You’ll Do

• Make our clients’ brands matter by being best in class in PR and Social Media Marketing, as well as bringing together the best mix of Ogilvy capabilities to solve business problems and build agency reputation.
• Become a trusted advisor to the clients to build client satisfaction and intimacy which maintains key relationships and opens up new growth opportunities for the agency.
• Independently lead integrated and PR accounts, manage team members working on the account to produce consistently good results, while building a highly-engaged team.
• Be able to successfully collaborate and lead medium-sized new business proposals or pitches, and work across departments, including Strategy and Creative Leads, on larger pitches / PR-led integrated pitches
• Responsible for revenue and margin growth/protection - including joint ownership with Directors of locally agreed practice targets.
• Increased exposure to business and finance management, meets account director billability targets and ensures the team does the same for their levels.
• Understands our contractual agreements and their impact on agency procedures.

Skills You Learn and Apply:

• Understanding of what makes great work and drives what it takes to make it happen.
• You are starting to build a strong niche and desire to focus on a particular industry/ industries for related PR and social media marketing work and are demonstrating strong knowledge and expertise that are highly valued by our clients.
• Ability to bring the best practices, insights and trends in social media marketing to create best-in-class work that generates shareability, talkability, reputation and earned media
• Ability to stream briefs into the right workflow based on past experience and a strong understanding of integrated marketing communications principles.
• A solid appreciation and understanding of all Ogilvy Group capabilities (e.g. strategy, creative, CE&C, Brand Advertising and Content) to be able to be the best-in-breed integrated communications practitioners to facilitate the best work throughout the whole process and effectively builds PR & Social as the front door for our clients to experience and access the rest of Ogilvy and wider WPP network.
• A good understanding of social media marketing and modern marketing capabilities (e.g. data analytics, CX, martech etc.) and have experience in integrating it into every applicable project.
• Relationship-building with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate project outcomes.
• Ability to think ahead from both technical expertise (of project management and production) and relationships to smooth problem-solving.
• Building the foundation of a trusted client advisor, you are able to listen to client needs without agenda and give them the best advice that strikes the right balance of protecting client and agency interests.
• Start dealing with senior clients and lay the foundations for senior client relationships.
• Ensure smooth, timely delivery, as well as revenue and margin growth/protection on projects.
• Manage few direct reports to impart client service skills and groom them in their growth and promotion. You indirectly manage several supporting team members across the wider team due to cross-practice accounts you will lead on.
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses of direct reports and team members, providing day-to-day counseling on job performance and career development as appropriate.
• Manages timely performance appraisals for direct reports.
• Manages staff to maximize productivity and individual, team and financial performance.
• Keep up to speed with industry trends and Ogilvy IP (e.g. Ogilvy wider group innovations, latest PR&I product suite, and know how to tap into and use Ogilvy tools, e.g. Brandwatch etc.) by being curious and well-read.

What You’ll Need

• Relentless curiosity
• Strong work ethic
• Good team player
• Articulate and persuasive
• Reliable and mature
• Strong client relationships and ability to grow your accounts (share of wallet, revenue size)
• Ability to build strong connections
• Developing a strong expertise in a particular niche or industry
• Starting to build a track record of leading business wins

How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.

We seek an experienced and strategic Chief of Staff to join our team in Singapore. This pivotal role involves working closely with our CEO and leadership team to drive critical initiatives, improve operational efficiency, and support company-wide alignment. You will be a trusted partner to the CEO, playing a key role in scaling our startup and ensuring effective communication across departments.

What you will be doing:

Strategic Planning & Execution:

• Collaborate with the CEO to shape and execute the company’s strategic direction.
• Drive and oversee key initiatives, ensuring seamless implementation across teams.
• Define, monitor, and report on key business metrics to track progress toward goals.

Operational Efficiency:

• Lead cross-functional projects aimed at improving processes and optimizing scalability.
• Identify operational gaps and drive solutions that enhance business performance.
• Ensure all teams are adequately resourced to meet strategic goals.

Communication & Stakeholder Management:

• Act as the primary liaison between the CEO and internal teams, investors, and external partners.
• Prepare executive-level communications, reports, and presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Coordinate leadership meetings, setting agendas, tracking follow-up actions, and ensuring alignment on priorities.

Team Collaboration & Leadership:

• Work closely with department heads to ensure cross-functional alignment on company objectives.
• Mentor and support emerging leaders within the organization.
• Provide guidance to teams on prioritization and execution of key initiatives.

Special Projects:

• Lead high-impact projects that contribute to company growth.
• Take on varied responsibilities to address evolving business needs.

What you will need:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, or a related field from a reputable university; an MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
• At least 3+ years of experience in a Chief of Staff or similar strategic role, ideally within a startup or high-growth environment.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, dynamic settings, with a high degree of flexibility and adaptability.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with a demonstrated ability to strategically prioritize tasks and manage complex, cross-functional projects.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills; able to influence senior stakeholders and work collaboratively across teams.
• Experience in managing internal and external communications, with a knack for crafting clear and compelling presentations and reports for C-suite and investors.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to synthesize data, evaluate metrics, and provide data-driven insights to support business decisions.
• Proven experience in process optimization and driving operational efficiencies, particularly in scaling a startup or high-growth company.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities, with experience mentoring and developing future leaders.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and deliver results independently with minimal supervision in a rapidly changing environment.
• Familiarity with startup challenges and the resilience to navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and limited resources while maintaining focus on key objectives.
• Experience working in cross-cultural or international environments is a plus, especially in aligning teams across different geographies.

KNOWLEDGE PLATFORMS WORKSTREAM

The Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) Limited is a knowledge centre under the Ministry of National Development with a mission to distil, create and share knowledge on liveable and sustainable cities. The Centre’s work spans research, capability development, advisory and knowledge platforms, including the World Cities Summit. You can expect a dynamic and rewarding career at CLC, where you will help to profile and share Singapore’s thought leadership and expertise in urban governance and solutions.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/MANAGER (CONFERENCE AND EVENT MANAGEMENT)

As a Conference and Event Manager, you will help to curate impactful event experiences for audiences. This will help to support CLC’s targeted engagements with key stakeholders.

Through our research, partnerships, capability development and other work, CLC continually acquires and develops knowledge on how urban planning and governance can make cities more liveable and sustainable. Conference and event management at CLC focuses on the planning and organisation of the flagship World Cities Summit (WCS) and the Mayors Forum (MF), and other related CLC outreach activities. It is a creative and practical planning and organisational role that involves curating contents and programme, and actualising them into immersive events and platforms that deliver value to audience and stakeholders.

The World Cities Summit (WCS) seeks to equip and inspire a global community of city leaders and allied professionals dedicated to making our cities more liveable and sustainable. The ability of WCS to convene and engage this community of foreign government and city leaders, International Organisations, sponsors and other partners is critical to its success, impact and value.

Working with CLC Marcoms team and the appointed Event Organiser, the Conference and Event manager will support the organising of the CLC in-person and virtual events; especially the biennial WCS, and, in alternate years, the overseas MF. The role involves researching and proposing suitable themes, topics, formats, speakers and writers. Staff will work with global urban leaders and experts, as well professional editors, designers, video producers and event organisers to deliver world class, high impact content. The Conference and Event manager will support the WCS organising committee to deliver an engaging experience through quality content and programming.

CLC seeks candidates who will push beyond boundaries to deliver high value, impactful work to very senior local and global audience of Ministers, Mayors, CEOs and experts.

Requirements:

1. Relevant leadership experience in conference and event organisation, with an interest in urban issues.
2. Prior experience in a related sector such as architecture, planning, smart cities, urban governance, geography, economics and real estate would be advantageous.
3. Good communication skills and ability to engage with senior officials or business leaders.
4. Resourceful, self-motivated, team player and keen learner. Attention to detail and ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines.
5. Basic knowledge of event management software, including proficiency in Microsoft office, especially excel.

We are excited to be partnering with a leading experiential agency. This company's creativity brings brands to life, ultimately creating amazing experiences.

As an Account Director, you will play a key role in building and growing client relationships. You will ensure that you provide exceptional customer service, whilst growing and retaining key accounts.

Project Management experience and some understanding of the events industry is important to succeed in this role!

What are you waiting for?

In this role, you will:

• Proactively seek opportunities to enhance your clients experience.
• Understand client objectives.
• Ensure clear communication on budgets and schedules.
• Ensure all projects are managed effectively.
• Assess performance metrics and deliver insights to improve events for the accounts.
• Responsible for managing and motivating team.

You'll need-

• A minimum of 5 years account management experience in a marketing, creative or experiential agency.
• Strong experience in managing key accounts.
• Ability to run smooth processes with clients.
• Fantastic attention to detail.
• Strong project management experience.
• Team Leader.

Eager to find out more? Please forward your latest updated CV directly to alycia@weareaspire.com

Get in touch today!

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Duration: 9 months

Assistant Director (Projects & Operations) – 12 months

1. Attend regular meetings with the team or/and with external stakeholders;
2. Perform secretariat duties to support the Workgroup;
3. Lead the planning and co-ordination of ad-hoc projects that enable participation by the community and provide support for logistic and administrative matters;
4. Liaise with external and internal stakeholders including government agencies, participating organisations and Divisions/Organisations pertaining to related activities;
5. Research, collate and organise materials/data pertaining to related activities;
6. Plan, coordinate and organise Focus Group Discussion, brainstorming sessions involving community groups, stakeholders and partners;
7. Assist with production of video content including sourcing and collation of materials, pre-recording of performances and other preparation support;
8. Perform administrative duties including procurement, budget and preparation of financial reports;
9. Prepare powerpoint slides, project paper and presentation at key engagement platforms;
10. Assist in note-taking of meetings; and
11. Attend late night and weekend duties as and when necessary.

Required to work on some weekends and evening.

Should you be interested in this position, please contact Juliana at 9230 6374 your resume directly for fast respond.

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Smarter, Faster, and as always - First. That's our philosophy. Bloomberg empowers global business leaders with breaking news, expert opinion and proprietary data distributed on every platform, across every time zone. Like our products and solutions - our teams are agile, dynamic, and innovative. We work hard, and we work fast - while keeping up the quality and accuracy for which we're known. It's what keeps us inventing and reinventing, all the time. Our culture is wide open, just like our spaces. We challenge each other. And through our countless volunteer projects, we help bring out the best in our communities as around us, too. You can do amazing work here. Work you couldn't do anywhere else. It's up to you to make it happen.

Bloomberg Media is seeking a high-caliber Media Research & Insights Director to join our Media Advertising Sales team based in Asia Pacific. In this role, you will oversee and handle research and analytics projects with the core objective to drive media revenues, develop multiplatform media targeting solutions. You are a strategic thinker who will work closely with team leaders across sales, ideation, marketing, campaign planning and productions to create ideas and drive revenues. You enjoy storytelling with data, presenting internally and externally and collaborating across the globe.

We'll trust you to:

• Drive audience insights and sales revenue using qualitative and quantitative methodologies
• Work closely with cross functional teams to drive campaign performance insights
• Collate, manage database, and analyze consumer and audience data from various sources to compile sales presentations and competitive analytical reports
• Consult cross-departmentally with client solutions, marketing, campaign planning, and creative teams to help develop innovative campaign strategies and sales materials, newsletters, category sector presentations, etc.
• Oversee market research vendors, manage on-going relationships, and identify strategic partnership opportunities to optimize ROI
• Enhance current reporting tools and formats with data visualization
• Represent the voice of the APAC region by working collaboratively with Global Data Science & Insights team

You'll need to have:

• At least 8 years of experience in audience data science & insights across APAC markets e.g. Customer insights & analytics, media effectiveness & measurement
• Experience in an international media company, advertising/media agency or market research company focusing on media research
• Demonstrated experience in cross media measurement using various sources including but not limited to publisher's first-party data, Ipsos surveys, Google Analytics, Comscore as well as other secondary sources
• Extensive experience in reporting research findings to internal stakeholders and external clients including the ability to present the results of analytic efforts to a non-data savvy audience
• Excellent Powerpoint, Excel and MS Office skills
• Demonstrated continuous career growth within an organization
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Fluency in both written and spoken English

Life at Bloomberg is many things, but it’s never dull. We’re a truly global business with a truly diverse workforce. We pride ourselves on being open, inclusive and collaborative, and provide a work environment that inspires our employees to be their best. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare coverage, and programs to support you and your family through different life stages, from parental leave to generous retirement savings plans.

If this sounds like you:

Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional

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Overview

You’re an established client lead and have their confidence to guide them to solutions that meets their business needs. You are experienced at orchestrating multiple capabilities and problem-solving to pull the solutions off flawlessly.

With 10+yrs related industry (PR agency / social agency . in-house client communications) experience, you have a solid foundation of managing clients and developing senior level client relationships. You’re driven by our mission to make our clients’ brands and businesses matter,and fundamentally believe that creativity and earning influence for our clients have the power to change fortunes. You are becoming a trusted advisor to clients, which means you have a track record of delivering consistently to a high standard while striking the right balance between protecting client and agency interests. Clients discuss business issues with you looking for your advice. You’re adept at leveraging your relationships with internal and external stakeholders to overcome any obstacles for your project. You are also an up-and-coming leader that believes in nurturing and empowering your junior team members to elevate their careers and a well-respected team member that your peers and juniors look up to.

Your focus as an Associate Director/Director:

• Make our clients’ brands matter by being best in class in PR and Innfluence, as well as bringing together the best mix of Ogilvy capabilities to solve business problems and build agency reputation.
• Become a trusted advisor to the clients to build client satisfaction and intimacy which maintains key relationships and opens up new growth opportunities for the agency.
• Independently lead integrated and social accounts, manage team members working on the account to produce consistently good results, while building a highly-engaged team.
• Be able to successfully collaborate and lead new business proposals or pitches, and work across departments, including Strategy and Creative Leads, on larger / PR-led integrated pitches.
• Responsible for revenue and margin growth and protection - including joint ownership with Directors of locally agreed practice targets.
• Business and finance management, meets billability targets and ensures the team does the same for their levels.
• Understands our contractual agreements and their impact on agency procedures.

The skills you learn and apply:

• Understanding of what makes great work and drives what it takes to make it happen.
• You are building strong niche and desire to focus on a particular industries for related PR work and are demonstrating strong knowledge and expertise that are highly valued by our clients.
• Ability to bring the best practices, insights and trends in social media marketing to create best-in-class work that generates shareability, talkability, reputation and earned media
• Ability to stream briefs into the right workflow based on past experience and a strong understanding of integrated marketing communications principles.
• A solid appreciation and understanding of all Ogilvy Group capabilities (e.g. strategy, creative, CE&C, Brand Advertising and Content) to be able to be the best-in-breed integrated communications practitioners to facilitate the best work throughout the whole process and effectively builds PR & Social as the front door for our clients to experience and access the rest of Ogilvy and wider WPP network.
• A good understanding of PR capabilities (e.g. media relations, content creation, influencer engagement) and have experience in integrating it into every applicable project.
• Relationship-building with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate project outcomes.
• Ability to think ahead from both technical expertise (of project management and production) and relationships to smooth problem-solving.
• A trusted client advisor, you are able to listen to client needs without agenda and give them the best advice that strikes the right balance of protecting client and agency interests.
• Dealing with senior clients and lay the foundations for senior client relationships.
• Ensure smooth, timely delivery, as well as revenue and margin growth/protection on projects.
• Manage direct reports to impart client service skills and groom them in their growth and promotion. You indirectly manage several supporting team members across the wider team due to cross-practice accounts you will lead on.
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses of direct reports and team members, providing day-today counseling on job performance and career development as appropriate.
• Manages timely performance appraisals for direct reports.
• Manages staff to maximize productivity and individual, team and financial performance.
• Keep up to speed with industry trends and Ogilvy IP (e.g. Ogilvy wider group innovations, latest PR&I product suite, and know how to tap into and use Ogilvy tools, e.g. Brandwatch etc.) by being curious and well-read.

The qualities that will make you successful

• Relentless curiosity
• Strong work ethic
• Good team player
• Articulate and persuasive
• >10 years’ relevant experience
• Reliable and mature
• Strong client relationships and ability to grow your accounts (share of wallet, revenue size)
• Ability to build strong connections
• Developing a strong expertise in a particular niche or industry
• Starting to build a track record of leading and assisting on new business wins

· 15+ years of experience in digital media marketing, preferably acquired in media agencies or adtech industry

· Demonstrated experience in programmatic and performance media including Search, social media, etc.

· This role requires the candidate to be a trusted advisor to the agency, have a clear understanding of the programmatic ecosystem and firm grip of the digital media and industry needs.

· Create, develop and grow day-to-day relationships with our agency/clients and key decision makers (Agencies, direct clients or Trading Desks) throughout campaign lifecycle

· Proven account management skills with the ability to lead demanding clients

· Strategic approach with result driven personality; self-motivated, team oriented, strong attention to details

· Understand and optimise towards clients’ objectives and KPIs by using internal and external dashboards to get campaign insights and actionable data

· Educate and consult our clients on SQREEM product suite and wider programmatic industry (DSPs, DMPs, SSPs, and 3rd party ad-serving systems)

· Comfortable working in a fast paced and high-pressure setting

· Enjoys working in a start-up tech organisation and an agile environment

· Comfortable working with remote resources

· Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; numerical ability

· Strong interest in digital trends and new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Job Responsibilities:

• Content Creation and Editing:Shoot and edit videos, including interviews, topic discussions, and daily events, to create engaging content.
• Stay current with emerging digital marketing trends and identify opportunities to incorporate them into client strategies.
• Maintain continual awareness of the industry, emerging trends and factors which influence the value of company's assets and opportunities for growth
• Manage Business Risks
• Service Client Accounts
• Manage issue arising from servicing client accounts

Job Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Business, Economics or a related field.
2. Must have a minimum of one year experience in Video content creation with over 500,000 followers.
3. Must have a tracking record of builiding Video-related business in any field with turnover of S$2million or above.
4. Utilization of YouTube Analytics: Use YouTube Analytics to analyze viewer preferences and trends, with the ability to optimize content.
5. Strong digital Marketing Knowledge: Familiarity with online advertising platforms and digital marketing principles. Technical Aptitude: Comfortable with basic website management and optimization techniques.
6. Creativity and Innovation: Ability to devise creative marketing strategies.
7. [Language] English-Business Level; [Japanese] Business High (N-1) or Native Level (Due to more than 80% of our clients are Japanese)

We are looking for a Director of Communication and Fundraising to join the team.

As a Director of Communication and Fundraising, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of internal employee and external stakeholders’ communication strategies to build St Luke’s ElderCare’s (SLEC) brand awareness, engagement, and brand value to support SLEC’s strategic priorities and growth plans. We will leverage strategic communications through digital and social media platforms to demonstrate the impact of our programmes and services, grow relationships with our stakeholders, and build thought leadership on active ageing that is transformational and innovative.

The Director of Communication and Fundraising will also be responsible for growing and managing income generation to support SLEC in delivering on its mission of transforming community care by enriching the lives of those through graceful and active ageing. The incumbent will develop and implement donor engagement, fundraising, philanthropic strategies and plans to support SLEC’s strategic priorities. The objectives are to establish meaningful relationships with the community, corporations, major donors and sponsors, to retain the current donor base, and develop new donor relationships.

Responsibilities:

Communication

• Develop and deliver SLEC’s communication strategies to effectively communicate with various stakeholders, including current and potential customers, employees, government entities, and the general public.
• Lead the development and building of an engaging and compelling SLEC brand to support SLEC’s vision and mission, leveraging the unique strengths of SLEC to achieve growth targets and strengthen brand recognition in key communities and audiences.
• Oversee all communication channels including media, corporate website, social media and other digital channels. Monitor and analyse communication metrics to ensure their effectiveness.
• Develop and execute an internal communication strategy to ensure employees are informed on organisational news, events, and objectives and proactively engage colleagues on key priorities.
• Initiate market research and translate analysis into well-structured and comprehensible recommendations for corporate communication and marketing initiatives; that will enhance and strengthen SLEC’s overall position in Singapore.
• Promote the effective integration of communications, brand building and public engagement, marketing messages and activities across all SLEC services through online and offline channels.

Media Relations & Crisis Communication

• Develop and implement effective public relations strategies to promote the mission and vision of SLEC.
• Craft senior management talking points, and speeches for internal and external stakeholders. Support Senior Leadership Team in public appearances and media engagements.
• Manage media relations and engagements in terms of media enquiries, writing media releases, preparing media kits and briefing spokespersons on FAQs.
• Support crisis communication efforts and lead the preparation of communication plans and media replies. Strategise and manage public and media relations to mitigate perception risks during times of reputational crises.

Fundraising

• Develop and implement strategies and programmes to expand and diversify donor base/pipeline; develop new income sources; and grow donorship across SLEC’s spectrum of donors ranging from individual, corporations, schools to partners.
• Plan short and long-term fundraising targets to meet funding needs across the organisation and develop effective strategies to achieve the set targets.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive, innovative and integrated fundraising plan as well as establish mutually beneficial partnerships, with a focus on major giving, institutional donors, trusts and foundations, and corporate partnerships.
• Develop a fundraising brand for the organisation's strategic cause to attract philanthropists. Cultivate and manage relationships to ensure long-term sustained philanthropic contributions to the organisation's cause.
• Expand mass market fundraising through direct marketing and online fundraising and ensure stable sustainability of funding through concerted stewardship.
• Create campaign concepts, stewardship of specific audiences, and coordinate data segmentation and contact schedules, with the aim of supporting sustainable, long-term programme growth.
• Work closely with senior leadership, board members, and other stakeholders to identify fundraising opportunities and build relationships with donors.
• Ensure proper governance of funds and full compliance with regulations as required by the Charity Commission, PDPA and Risk Management policies.

Job Requirements:

• Degree in English language, Mass Communications, Marketing or a related field from an accredited institution. A master’s degree in a communications-related field would be an advantage.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in corporate communications, media relations and fundraising, in a key leadership position.
• A passion for, and commitment to, serving the elderly in the community care sector.
• High integrity and openness combined with a commitment to good governance.
• Influential leader with the ability to work at both strategic and operational levels and building a high-performance team.
• The ability to work collaboratively and influence effectively across teams and externally to achieve organisational goals.
• Strategic communication skills with excellent writing and storytelling skills to craft Press Releases, Media FAQs, CEO messages, internal and external communication.
• Media relations, PR skills and crisis communications management.
• Track record of developing brand positioning and shaping messaging strategies leading to increased brand recognition.
• Track record of fundraising success, building relationships, and managing individual giving, high-value, and corporate donors.
• Excellent business planning, financial management and budgeting skills.
• Good knowledge of the rapidly changing media and communications industry, and the use of digital technology/channels to deliver and develop integrated communication plans.

Media Planning Director
Based in Singapore

Founded in 1994 and with 26 offices worldwide. My client is an integrated agency known for creating something truly meaning and long lasting for their clients and the world. They are hiring for a Media Planning Director to join their team here in Singapore.

The Media Planning Director will develop strategic marketing plans across digital channels and collaborate with teams to meet client objectives, drive ROI and exceed performance expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop integrated digital marketing plans across all channels, including SEO, SEM, social media, email marketing, display advertising, and content marketing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create marketing plans that achieve client objectives and drive ROI.
• Conduct research and analysis to inform marketing strategies.
• Develop messaging and positioning strategies that align with the client's brand and target audience.
• Define performance metrics to measure campaign success and report to clients regularly.
• Provide guidance to account management and creative teams on digital marketing best practices.
• Manage the planning team's day-to-day operations, including training, development, and performance management.
• Stay current with emerging digital marketing trends and identify opportunities to incorporate them into client strategies.
• Direct report to the Managing Director.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in digital marketing, with at least 5 years in a planning or strategy role at a digital or consulting agency.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing channels, including SEO, SEM, social media, email marketing, display advertising, and content marketing.
• Experience developing integrated marketing plans that drive ROI and exceed performance expectations.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to analyze data and provide actionable insights.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present ideas and strategies to clients and internal teams.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Experience with project management tools and platforms.
• Willingness to travel 10% of the time.

Interested? Please apply!

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Trevor Gabriel

Havas Media Network Singapore is looking for a Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Director.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the Revenue, Compensation costs and New Business Reports in Magnitude through monthly closing process
• Supervise the preparation of the Budgeted/Forecasts of the Revenue and Compensation costs
• Working closely with the Billing team to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the Billings and Revenue
• Build strong collaboration with Operational team to supervise and optimize:

1. Media ordering timeline (before mid-month M-1) to optimize the media delivery in month M and billing timeline
2. Media rebates & Operating discount revenue (being part of the rebate rates & Operating discount discussion/negotiation)
3. In collaboration with the CFO, determine a strategy and recommendations to be shared with the Operation Management to optimize the media allocation in order to maximize the Operating discount and Rebates revenue.

• Supervise and monitor client contracts, terms & conditions, audit clauses through a client contract tracker
• Assist Account Directors to determine price proposals by maximizing the profitability of the company and help to provide pitch information
• Maintain solid financial processes for the Media perimeter
• Month-end closing process (revenue closing and revenue accruals preparation, CFO report with analysis and comments of variation vs Budget and Forecast)
• Prepare operational reports on media performance, budget variance explanations, forecasts
• Responsible for improvement of audit results both internal, external and for client audits
• Improve and optimise the systems usage and the process automation
• Perform ad-hoc projects and tasks as requested

Job Requirements

• Minimum 8-10 years of experience with supervisory role preferred, preferably in the service/ professional industry
• Has experience at an external audit firm
• Bachelor Degree in Accountancy or any equivalent/relevant degrees
• Proficient in MS Office and MS Excel
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Well-organised with excellent time management skills, able to meet strict deadlines
• Good team player and able to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• Committed, highly self-motivated individual who can work independently
• Meticulous with an eye for detail
• Analytical and possess good problem-solving skills

About Havas

Founded in 1835 in Paris, France, Havas is one of the world’s largest communications groups. At Havas, we believe that companies have a key role to play in solving the biggest challenges our world faces today – and every day we strive to operate responsibly for ourselves and our stakeholders. We operate under the vision and mission to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people.

We employ 20,000 people in more than 100 countries, adopting a fully integrated model through our 60+ Havas Villages around the world – the Havas Village offers a truly unique proposition, where cross discipline teams work together, ensuring agility and a seamless experience for our clients.

About Havas Singapore

Within our Singapore Village is a network of business units including Havas Media, Arena Media, Socialyse, Red Havas, and BLKJ Havas, offering services across media, social, PR, and creative. Since 2015, we’ve had an unbroken streak of Agency of the Year (AOTY) wins across disciplines, including Integrated Marketing AOTY, Media AOTY, Specialist AOTY, and PR AOTY.

We are also committed to building a diverse culture where our people can grow, thrive, and feel that they belong. In 2023, we won Best Agency Culture (Gold) at Marketing Interactive’s Agency of the Year Awards, and are a Great Place To Work® Certified™ agency.

Here at Havas, we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual's ability to perform their job.

*Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.*

About the role

The Media Activation team is responsible for providing thoughtful and exciting recommendations for Search, Social, Display, and Video, owning supplier relationships, and then executing those recommendations expertly. The Media Activation team leverages their mastery of each channel to make sure its recommendations are consistently excellent and innovative, and that in-channel performance and data integrity is maximized.

Some of the things we'd like you to do:

• Support the Client Director & Media Activation Practice Lead in capacity planning & resource management for the team
• Oversee development, roll out, and adherence of best practices across channels
• Develop strong relationships with your client, and key suppliers, leading team communications with these stakeholders. Be able to communicate with clients on subjects outside your remit, and provide them with useful insight, working independently
• Bring in-depth knowledge of Display & Search platforms (e.g. – GDN, DV360, Google Search etc.) operating as in-agency expert in your field of specialism, whilst showing a good understanding of the overall media landscape
• Manage and develop key vendor relationships – Bing, Yahoo Japan, Google
• Identify new platforms, partners & integrations, evaluate these (and existing platforms) over time and maintain a POV here
• Develop thought leadership pieces & case studies throughout the course of the year to demonstrate role within wider industry as a digital media expert
• Keep up to date with latest Google Marketing Betas/product updates & identify suitable betas which would be suitable to test for Google Cloud.
• Provide succinct updates on owned workstreams and projects to internal & external teams
• Gain a strategic understanding of the client’s business and KPIs, and how campaign optimizations meet those KPIs
• Ownership of in-channel planning and forecasting, testing, measurement, and optimization
• Manage a team of 2-4 direct reports, a larger team of up to 6
• Lead through vision, values, and model leadership behaviors while championing and facilitating change in a positive manner
• Provide timely and actionable feedback to the team to aid in their development
• Strong and effective communication across all levels; ability to establish and maintain effective relationships both internally and externally
• Thoughtfully craft career development plans for your reports and contribute to the development of training materials for the department
• Prior experience in digital marketing with B2B clients would be a plus

A bit about yourself:

• An experienced and exceptionally talented individual, you will be passionate about digital media and have a desire to be at the cutting edge of online advertising
• At least 8 years of experience within a digital-centric role with a track record of leadership and business growth
• Strong understanding of the digital landscape, suppliers and technology
• Strong analytical skills. Able to analyze and draw conclusions from data and comfortable presenting quantitative information in a client context
• Demonstrate the ability to present your strategic recommendations to external/internal clients
• Eager to learn new concepts and challenge the existing business framework
• Highly developed interpersonal, team building and relationship management skills
• Demonstrated experience in senior stakeholder relationship building and management
• Proven capability in building, developing and mentoring people and teams
• Past experience in managing profitability in the context of agreed scope of work
• Experience in setting work quality standards and consistently delivering against them

More about EssenceMediacom

We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture. Our daring global network of 10,000 influencers help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth. EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people. EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons. EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all. This collective culture will be our “new power” where ideas are freely exchanged, and collaboration is actively encouraged in a place where you can innovate in our hyperconnected world.

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.