If you’re looking to make a difference in the marketing industry, this role is for you. You will join an award-winning agency in Asia, known for pioneering industry-first innovations in APAC for iconic, global brands in the beauty, health, and lifestyle sector.
We’re recruiting for a passionate Director, to shape the organisation culture and provide strong leadership to the team. You will also be actively engaged in the agency’s growth strategy – including new business pitching and agency product development and offerings. You will seamlessly integrate with the Digital and Creative teams to evolve the traditional strategic planning practices into the creative, digital brand-building world.
COMPANY CULTURE
The agency culture is dynamic, collaborative and progressive. They pride themselves in fostering a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The agency recognizes that a diverse workforce enriches creativity and innovation and promotes a more comprehensive understanding of the world. The agency actively encourages employees from different backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, and abilities to bring their unique perspectives to the table, creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels heard and valued.
Alongside its commitment to DEI, the agency also places great importance on mental wellness. We offer various benefits and programmes prioritising mental health, such as employee assistance programs, flexible working arrangements, and day offs for mental wellness activities.
The agency company culture includes wellness benefits, mental health off days, and comprehensive health for your overall wellbeing.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Serve as the client relation leader for key clients and manage client portfolios
- Regional planning and local market implementation - culture decoding of local consumer insights, creative ideation and activations, providing guidance and quality control for execution excellence to SEA market specialists
- Proactively generate new ideas and opportunities to ensure client program success
- Lead a regional team, including SEA market and digital specialists, to deliver quality strategies and execution to clients
- Serve as a role model to team members and create opportunities to enhance the growth of team members
- Identify opportunities for agency/team learning and develop tools/suggestions to expand agency knowledge and understanding
- Demonstrate ability to help teams understand how industry, cultural or media-driven issues can directly or indirectly affect the client.
- Play an integral role in shaping the organizational culture and provide strong leadership to junior team members
- Play an active role in the agency’s new business efforts; take responsibility for the majority of the planning input on pitches, and being the planning representative for the agency in creds
- Work closely with senior leadership to manage account profitability through oversight of team’s productivity
If you can do that, you have what it takes. It might help if you have:
- Experience of 10 years and above in PR, Integrated Marketing Communications, and/or digital
- Display a strong understanding of industry trends to see where the agency can identify opportunities to grow.
- Agency experience is essential; experience managing a small-sized team
- Excellent knowledge and experience in the Southeast Asia markets
- Experience in strategic communications and growth strategy
- Corporate communications and/or experience is an advantage
- Leadership and stakeholder management skills – confident, vocal, and focused
- Detail-minded, independent and a good team player
DeVries PERKS:
- Monthly mental health day
- Hybrid; 3-5 days in office
- Monthly health & wellness stipend
- Work-from-home flexibility
- Mental wellbeing support through Employee Assistance Program counselling phoneline
ABOUT DeVries Global
DeVries Global is a mid-sized brand communications agency that combines the fast-moving, client-centric culture of a boutique with a global footprint across three regions: NA, Europe and Asia. Founded 40+ years ago with 20 people in New York, the agency has since grown to 200+ global citizens across creative capitals around the world: London, Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.
We are the First Cultural Communications Agency. What makes our approach unique is that we tackle client problems from culture-in vs. consumer-out. We focus on the future as we decode culture for our clients and have operationalized our mission of creating influence across every aspect of how we work.
We have a carefully curated list of clients across a range of consumer industries, including healthcare, beauty, lifestyle. Our specialty is 360° integrated marketing communications and we excel in driving commerce, elevating brand relevancy and driving consumer affinity and engagement. To learn more about us visit: devriesglobal.com / Linkedin / instagram.com (DeVries Singapore)
DeVries Global is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. DeVries Global is committed to building a culture where all employees are seen as equal, are respected and where all opinions are heard. We take pride in our inclusive hiring, as well as our diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates.
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Due to the large number of applications received, we apologize if we are unable to provide a response or feedback on unsuccessful applications. We appreciate the time taken to apply for the role and your recent interest in DeVries Global.
