Total 31 programme director job vacancies in Business Management / Project / Planning category in Singapore, Singapore

We’re expanding and are actively looking for an experienced and highly motivated talent to join our Revenue team. You’ll be working alongside Partnership, Marketing and Customer Success team to generate sales leads in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Build business development pipeline by proactively identifying opportunities and engaging with key prospects
• Plan and execute a territory plan with clear account prioritisation
• Build relationships with multiple stakeholders and influencers across the customers’ organisations

• Uncover customers’ pressures, challenges and priorities to effectively position our offering to meet their business objectives
• Participate in pricing and tender/proposal reviews with senior management to ensure alignment to the customer requirements
• Possess a thorough knowledge of the market, and the solutions and services Xtremax provides

• Minimum 5 years of relevant sales experience
• Impressive track record in B2B or B2G sales, with key established connections in the relevant sector
• History of successfully developing and maintaining senior client relationships
• Demonstrate good empathy and listening skills

• A highly self-motivated and independent initiator with excellent interpersonal skills
• A team player who is willing to work for the success of the team and its goals
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills
• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
  

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You will lead the work on some of the most popular consumer brands in the world, impacting the daily lives of nearly 2 billion people in the fastest growing region in the world. You will work for clients who not only care about success in the marketplace but are passionate about the role of brands in helping bring about social change. The Business Director is responsible for the overall management of a client account including creation and communication of effective brand strategies, annual fee and contract negotiations, account staffing and oversight of all client relations and presentations; and provides support and oversight to an Account Management team.

Expectations of a Business Director/Group Account Director 

• Manages a portfolio of brands 

• Along with Creative Directors and Strategic Planner, sets creative and strategic tone for client account 

• Partners with Senior Planners to develop and implement highly strategic plans for brand 

• Problem solves on high level account and production issues and knows when to involve Management 

• Builds and maintains top level client relationships; acts as key partner and advisor to clients offering strategies and solutions to address their business challenges. 

• Oversees annual fee and contract negotiations; works closely with Finance on contract and fee proposals 

• Leads monthly client revenue tracking and analyzes revenue impact on account and agency profitability  

• Committed to constantly improving our work, and how we work 

• Always on a look out for opportunities to grow business behind access to wider Groupe capabilities 

• Maintains a sense of discretion and professionalism, representing the Groupe  

Expectations as a member of our community 

• You believe passionately in the power of creativity. But you’re realistic and have a clear-eyed view of what it will take to get there, inspiring people with a diverse range of skills and perspectives to work towards a common goal 

• Your ideas and your voice will be heard, respected and protected with passion. Ideas are not disposable commodities, they are our most precious assets 

• You will be tested and challenged, but you will equally be supported, encouraged and celebrated. Because the true value of a community is that we bring out the best in each other 

Expectations as a team leader 

Your primary goal will be to nurture the next generation of leaders. You will reflect our “People First” ethos, where we believe that the best work comes from a team that feels happy, secure and motivated, with a clarity of purpose. You understand that humility and kindness are equal in importance to daring and initiative.  

In your role, you will specifically be expected to: 

• Provide the required leadership and inspiration to department team 

• Monitor client account team to deliver beyond client’s expectations 

• Motivate your team, and be the glue that keeps teams going 

• Lead career conversations, to set goals and KPIs for each team member, review progress regularly and support them to achieve 

The Associate Business Intelligence Director is responsible for collecting, aggregating, and reporting business investment data (client, supplier and Publicis product investment). The candidate will be successful and enjoy the role if they have an inquisitive problem-solving mind, excellent attention to detail, and can build strong working relationships with stakeholders. Publicis Media's reporting continually evolves and improves so there is significant creative scope to develop new skills and apply new tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing business investment data across a multi-market remit
• Ensuring that local market contacts deliver a range of reports on time and to a sufficient standard
• Using Alteryx to aggregate and clean data on a periodic basis
• Updating multiple PowerBI dashboards
• Responding to requests for data and inquiries into the figures from all areas of the business
• Excellent Excel skills
• Background in digital advertising with proven reporting experience
• A good understanding of all Agency media types and key suppliers
• An aptitude for learning to use reporting/dashboarding tools

The Director is a lead to steward the business and deliver against client objectives and satisfaction. He or she serves as the senior contact and will drive quality control, approving communication strategies, plans and key tactics delivered by the team across online and offline planning.

This individual will manage a structured team to engage and drive conversations with key partners (including creative agencies) that involves account and media planning, new opportunities, branded content, negotiations, as well as support and collaborate on relevant projects to scale learnings that is required of the account.

This entails management of internal business deliverables (e.g. Scope of Work, address audits) and management of staff (e.g. interviewing/hiring, performance reviews, assignment recommendations, etc.).

The Director will also mentor, manage, train and motivate team members to deliver the best possible performance.

Key Accountabilities:

• Be a key contact across entire planning cycle for senior brand clients and media directors / managers. Ensure media deliverables are met on time and within budget and align with clients’ objectives.
• Utilize an in-depth knowledge on client category, brands and specific client requests and needs to provide appropriate input and direction to the agency units driving the entire communication planning process.
• Lead account ‘project manager’ for the entire business accountable for achieving deadlines across all campaigns and deliverables. Collaborate with multiple internal business practices that contribute to the overall communication plan development process both internal and external.
• Hones feasibility, profitability and negotiation skills through implementation and management of plans, working with Trading team to drive best prices and terms to maximize effectiveness of placement’s reach to client’s consumers.
• Serves as first level coach and supervisor to one or more associates to support their knowledge of agency, client, vendor and industry basics as well as their overall skill development in the execution or monitoring of experience plans.
• Provide staff with ongoing feedback and manage annual Evaluation as well as constantly evaluating resource allocations.
• Address all operational issues to ensure smooth execution. Propose solutions and perspectives to problems.
• Establish effective working relationships with all parties and act as first line of issue escalation; manage the resolution of issues as they arise (pre and post live) such as discrepancy between reporting systems and creative malfunctions, amongst others.
• Keep abreast to the development and trends in the ever-changing media landscape.
• Full understanding and interpretation of media system, research, market data and manage 3rd Party audits.
• Drive and own internal processes to increase productivity, streamline processes/reporting as required and champions HX Media Framework. Work with team to implement these processes and see it to its fruition.

Key Competencies:

• Strong understanding of the integrated media landscape
• Acts as a client visionary by bringing a highly valued perspective to the client based on a deep understanding of their business, issues and opportunities
• Takes responsibility for the collective performance of Functional Leads/Specialists team working together
• Integrates understanding into the work to make decisions on the business
• Filters and adapts the different options and applies good judgement combined with hard facts to select which ideas will produce the best results
• Builds team effectiveness by providing a clear definition of what’s expected and identifying the people with the right skills and capabilities
• Coaches others by assessing an individual's strengths and areas for development and encouraging a free exchange of constructive feedback. Pushes down decision-making and avoids taking charge unless absolutely necessary.
• Takes entrepreneurial calculated risks and acts on opportunities that lead to significant gains for the business
• Identifies and actions opportunities to grow profitable revenue while driving awards submissions and winning awards
• Anticipates the future and takes decisive action to create opportunities or minimize potential problem
• Pre-sells by soliciting the involvement of key people in advance to build ownership
• Demonstrate desired behaviours and make effective decisions. Ensure all decision making is aligned to brand’s purpose and values. Lead by example.

As a Project Director / Delivery Lead, you will act as the single point of contact for the key client on all project delivery and managed services delivery matters. You will lead a small team of Project Managers and workstream leads and be responsible for overseeing, managing and implementing multiple IT Projects with quality, within scope, ensure deliverables are on time and conform to processes and standards meeting client’s requirements.

What will you do?

Project Delivery

• Review the project lifecycle (initiation, plan, execution, completion)
• Review project schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk management plans
• Manage issues arising out of scope definition and subsequent disputes that impacted scope, schedule and cost
• Manage issues arising from integration of various components of the project including hardware, software installation, testing, business process review, redesign, application development, migration and data conversion etc.
• Oversee the implementation of the project with regard to schedules, budget, manpower and quality
• Resolve project overrun issues with Senior Management
• Monitor and report on project management progress
• Manage resources in terms of mobilizing resources during different periods of time from team to team to maximize productivity or minimize wastage

Customer/Vendor Management

• Manage contracts and subcontractors
• Effectively engaged stakeholders in project decisions and execution
• Build long-term customer relationships by anticipating and exceeding customer’s expectation
• Negotiate with customers on change control mechanism to meet schedules and prioritize changes based on business needs

Team Management

• Provide leadership to the project team to ensure that proposals/ enhancements are fully analyzed and evaluated for benefits and cost
• Provide the project team with accurate information about business needs and priorities as well as details about business systems
• Participate in leadership activities and providing performance feedback and developmental coaching
• Monitor and improve team performance, conduct team building, providing leadership, coaching, and performance management

Beyond projects and operational delivery matters, you are also expected to:

• Develop business opportunities to solve the client’s problems.
• Ideate solutions using technology and process changes.
• Create growth opportunities by considering the feasibility and sustainability of these opportunities and the core capabilities of NCS.
• Direct the right team across different Lines of Business (LOBs) to drive revenue, quality and customer satisfaction targets and ensure delivery.
• Accountable for the delivery services of the client’s account and needs to be involved in the delivery of the programs that you are responsible for.

About us

We Are Social is a global socially-led creative agency with unrivalled social media expertise. With more than 1300 people in 19 offices spanning four continents and over 80 people here in our Singapore office, we deliver world-class creative campaigns and strategies based on social insights, for forward-thinking brands.

Overall purpose of the role

A client-facing role, developing innovative strategic solutions for clients and helping them navigate the rapidly evolving world of marketing and communications. Where advertising, branding, direct marketing, PR and media are all now converging and demand the kind of strategic thinking, which can be a catalyst to opportunities offered by all these disciplines.

Our Strategy department is a crucial part of the Agency’s success, helping clients put Social Thinking at the heart of marketing, focusing on understanding people and what makes them social to generate powerful insights that can drive business value for brands.

We are now seeking an experienced freelance Strategy Director to join our team on a 6-month maternity cover from October 2024 to March 2025.

What does the role involve?

Strategy

• Taking client briefs, challenging them, and developing them into inspiring and informative internal briefs. Keeping abreast of new trends and developments and sharing those with the rest of the team and company regularly.
• You will be responsible for turning ideas into well-rounded, strategically sound, deliverable plans that you lead and write, collaborating with others in the team to encompass audience insights, trend analysis, marketing/media executions, timings and budgets.

 Creativity

• Driving the conception and development of innovative on-brief digital ideas for clients and/or new businesses, from bigger campaign themes to smaller execution/technology-led ideas. You should inspire excellent creative solutions and be able to guide and lead the ideas-generation process, identifying and building on any ideas from other people within the agency.

 Client-handling

• Partner with the senior Account Management team and client to lead long-term communication strategies. Articulating those plans for clients in written and spoken form - writing and giving clear presentations. Once ideas are sold-in, you will then be the guardian of that plan, ensuring it's delivered in a way that remains on-brief and in line with the agreed vision. Play the role of catalyst, consultant and companion to the client until the idea is right

 Research and Analysis

• Intellectual curiosity is a must; we are looking for creative problem–solvers. You’ll need to have a good understanding of research approaches (on and offline) and be able to apply these approaches to uncover breakthrough insights that can drive our client business forward.
• Tools we use include: Brandwatch, Global Web Index, Sysomos, Synthesio, Crimson Hexagon and Euromonitor.

 Effectiveness

• Keen focus and understanding of how our client business works and ability to develop strategic approaches clearly designed to help grow their clients' brands.

 Leadership

• As a senior member of the team, you will lead by example providing mentorship and support for more junior members of the team. You will have a strong point of view on the future of the communications landscape and the role of social thinking within this. You will be experienced in expressing this point of view internally and externally and helping shape client and agency direction as a result of this.

 New Business

• You will also play a vital part in new business development, meeting prospective clients, presenting credentials, taking briefs and leading pitches. So you will be excited by the prospect of developing the agency as a business, pushing us into new areas, and selling our ideas and approaches to new clients from new sectors.

What are we looking for?

• Prior creative agency experience in a Strategic/Planning capacity
• Had worked with regional or global clients/accounts
• An open, inquisitive character with a focus on problem-solving in creative ways
• Passion for wider communications/ marketing trends and culture as a whole
• Social media/advertising/brand enthusiast
• Confident enough to speak up, challenge and ask why (a lot)
• Collaborative with a passion for delivering industry-defining work
• Bring something new to the agency – demonstrate individual passion and expertise

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Team Summary

Client Services (CS) provides industry-leading operational support to Visa’s clients around the world. With our deep knowledge and expertise, we are a key internal partner to product and technology, bringing the voice of the customer into the design, development and successful deployment of Visa products and services, enabling our client facing teams to deliver and scale new products, services and initiatives into the market.

We are trusted partners to Visa’s clients, providing expertise to support and successfully grow their business.

What a Business Strategy and Operations Director does at Visa:

The role of Business Strategy and Operations Director for Client Services (AP) is a key role that is responsible for a wide range of activities required to support the AP Head of Client Services in delivering against regional and global priorities. The role is based in Singapore and provides an excellent opportunity to gain a broad strategic overview of Visa’s business. It will involve close collaboration with the Client Services Leadership Team as well as strong partnership with other functional leaders across Asia Pacific.

Specific responsibilities span across the following key areas:

• Drive end-to-end management of Client Services Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) – collaborate with CS Leadership Team and other global as well as regional stakeholders to facilitate OKR targets each year. Establish accurate tracking capabilities to measure performance against targets.
• Reporting on business performance through Monthly Business Reviews. Partner with relevant people to understand any variances to targets and provide clear insights into improvement opportunities.
• Establish a robust operating rhythm with Client Success Cluster Leads to track key performance metrics and support the program management of strategic Client Success initiatives.
• Manage revenue generated through the Visa Online Access Fee including billing, forecasting, budget setting and careful management and tracking of fee waivers.
• Create materials and content for monthly business reviews, monthly staff newsletter, Town Halls, executive updates, CSLT and department meetings, and other key updates as appropriate.
• Work with AP leadership team, AP Pricing Team and Global CS Pricing on socialization of new Client Services product and pricing changes that drive revenue growth for the organization. Partner with other functional teams to promote revenue generating services to our clients. Develop capabilities to track revenue performance against budget and targets.
• Partner with the Finance Business Partner and CS Leadership Team to build the annual revenue and expense budget. Demonstrate a strong understand of the revenue and expense drivers and articulate risks and opportunities that may impact budget performance.
• Drive operational resilience by partnering with Risk and other internal CS Teams to facilitate crucial risk requirements such as Business Continuity exercises and Risk as well as Control Self Assessments.
• Partner with Global Service Excellence Team to drive key process improvement initiatives that will create efficiencies, improve the customer experience and reduce cost.

Why this is important to Visa

The candidate will play a key central role in driving business effectiveness through a best-in-class project and program management capability, ensuring successful execution of strategic plans across the region and provide support to the SVP Client Services (AP) and the broader AP Client Services Leadership Team.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

The Strategy Director is a senior role in the team to drive growth, innovation and transformation based on deep understanding of client category needs and human insights.

We are looking for a seasoned strategy expert who is adept in understanding how brands win in the platform world. You’ll be amazing at weaving together client- and pitching-winning media strategies, demonstrating an intimate understanding of how consumers interact with channels, digital publisher and engagement platforms. You’ll join the strategy Communications Practice, with outputs that blend Digitas capabilities to deliver integrated platform ideas and connected campaigns. The successful candidate will therefore possess a broad spectrum of experience in communications, media and engagement strategy.

The Strategy Director is a 360° thinker and effectiveness champion, who focuses on how to most effectively solve clients' business challenges through an orchestrated system of paid, owned and earned touchpoints. The Power of One approach is collegiate and thrives on diversity; Strategists work with client leads, planners, creatives, data scientists, experience designers and solution consultants. At the inter-section of technology, data and creativity we believe we can offer more meaningful connected experiences between brands and people.

You will unlock growth opportunities and create industry-inspiring innovative executions. You will empower interdisciplinary teams to lead ideas into new non-traditional connection points while balancing needs for traditional media, where the target audience, brand and the idea intersect to create the greatest impact, especially across APAC.

Your responsibilities:

• Analyzing a variety of data-centric resources to develop multi-faceted insights into consumers' media consumption and audience development that fuels decision-making and guides the development of a coherent and effective media plan.
• Applying extensive platform expertise spanning publishers, mobile, social, native, entertainment (etc) to map consumer experience journeys and identify high impact moments for brands to connect through media-fuelled creativity.
• Crafting stories based on how consumers are interacting with their devices and other technology to reveal how brands can better connect with their consumers
• Translating top-down global strategies to consider regional nuances, as well as defining bottoms-up approaches and playbooks that influence global go-to-market.
• Partnering with relationship leads, creative strategists, and other cross-capability teams to translate the holistic communications plan into innovative ideas and programs, resulting in smartly-mapped marketing tactics that deliver on stated goals.
• Supporting the performance manager with media planning outputs, ensuring they align with strategic recommendations and represent consistently high standards
• Actively engaging with the Singapore strategy community, forming initiatives to develop, products, IP, skills and knowledge.
• Supporting recruitment activities within strategy aligned to the business plan.

Team Summary

The AP Corporate Communication function plays a critical role in driving Visa’s business growth by advancing and protecting Visa’s reputation in the region. The function focus on storytelling, thought leadership and content development that supports revenue growth across Visa’s three growth pillars. Not only does it increase the connections between Visa’s brand, culture, and innovation to ensure brand relevance, it also enacts proactive and defensive strategies to protect Visa’s business and reputation and evangelize Visa’s purpose. Driving the evolution of Visa’s culture and an enhanced understanding of Visa’s business strategy is a core part of what Corporate Communications does to protect Visa’s reputation in Asia Pacific.

What a Director, Business Planning Operations, AP Corporate Communications does at Visa:  

Reporting to SVP, AP Head Corporate Communication, the Director, Business Planning and Operations (BPO) of the AP Corporate Communication function will be responsible for business and workforce planning, strategy development and execution, budget management, management and control of the strategic project portfolio, provision of business support to markets, including enhancing business processes to maximize internal and in-market performance.     

This role is a key member of the AP Corporate Communication team, working closely with both hub and in market leads to facilitate planning, strategy and reporting activities. This role is the key liaison between global Corporate Communication function and the region, as well as a key member of the regional BPO network.  This role requires sound commercial and strategic mindset, as well as strong organizational and influencing skills to ensure its successful delivery, as it involves working closely with the various functional teams and subject matter experts across the organization in the AP Region.

In this role, you are expected to:

Business / Strategy

• Lead the AP Corporate Communication group in business planning, strategy development, drive effective leadership and operations through management of key business processes.
• Manage the tracking, reporting and analysis of AP Corporate Communication metrics and targets, and recommend changes or initiatives to achieve goals as necessary
• Manage and drive key strategic projects, which typically require cross-functional collaboration from initiation to execution, ensuring alignment with organization, business and market priorities
• Enhance the effectiveness of the AP Corporate Communication team by pursuing initiatives and process enhancements identified during annual planning sessions, quarterly and monthly business reviews
• Provide ad-hoc analysis and decision support as necessary
   

Planning / Operational

• Oversee the Annual Operating Plan and annual OKR / goal setting process ensuring that hub and market goals are aligned with AP Corporate Communication strategy
• Develop an effective tracking mechanism that monitors progress towards the agreed targets and objectives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance and generate regular AP Corporate Communication dashboards, provide support in preparation of presentation materials for business review
• Continue to review, enhance business process to drive greater efficiency and share best practices within AP Corporate Communication and Global Corporate Communication
• Manage multi-year planning across AP Corporate Communication Collaborate with Finance Business Partner to drive quarterly forecasting and annual operating plan
• Manage AP Corporate Communication team townhalls and offsites agenda/content
• Project-manage large-scale events that AP Corporate Communication is responsible such as APMK, Client Events (on the agenda and content perspective, not events organization), as well as program manage regional communication campaigns

Team Summary             

The AP Corporate Communication team creates and delivers communication programs that drive Visa’s business growth and advance and protect the company’s reputation. This team takes ownership of the Company’s external comms profile including Asia Pacific’s President and senior leadership team, Products & Solutions, Innovation, Commercial & Money Movement, Merchant Sales & Acquiring, Risk, Consulting and Analytics, Technology, and Strategy. We work across external, client and employee communication activities to promote Visa’s ongoing strategy to extend our payments network into new areas of opportunity and position ourselves as the partner of choice for banks, merchants, fintechs, technology companies and governments. In close partnership with the business functions, our team defines the company’s positions in the region on a wide range of industry topics and delivers corresponding thought leadership content.

What a Director, Business Communication does at Visa:

In this role, you will work with the AP leadership team and key functions across the business: Product, Merchant Sales & Acquiring, Technology and support on Global sponsorships & marketing. You will conceptualize and deliver communication programs that drive business results for Visa’s critical growth pillars and how these support the growth of our clients’ businesses. You will oversee regional thought leadership communication including content for external, client and internal audiences. This includes comprehensive corporate storytelling collateral, media and social campaigns, and stakeholder education delivered via a mix of channels including events.

In this role, you will be the regional communication lead for a range of areas that are central to Visa’s growth and manage the communication needs of the relevant functional teams and oversee communication campaigns that reflect these areas’ increased importance to Visa’s long-term growth strategy.  You will play a key role in managing issues and supporting crisis communication across Asia Pacific.

It is vital for the applicant to demonstrate knowledge and capability in helping regional and local business and communication teams engage stakeholders and reinforce Visa’s vision for the future of commerce as it relates to our long-term commitment to uplift economies. In addition to delivering high-quality communication programs, you will act as a trusted advisor to Visa’s leadership team in some of the region’s most complex functions, helping them talk about their business objectives in a way that has a meaningful impact in the communities in which we operate. You will also play a key role in ensuring the company’s public and client-facing messages in Asia Pacific are communicated with a whole-of-Visa perspective, coordinating across geographies to make sure all content, from press releases to speeches, is consistent and aligned.

Projects you will be a part of:

This team creates and leads many of the highest profile communication programs in the region. We oversee the Asia Pacific communication strategy to define and articulate Visa’s network evolution as it relates to innovation, trust and corporate citizenship. On a tactical level, you’ll support the delivery of regional strategic events and play a key role in developing thought leadership content for senior leaders.

You’ll also contribute to broader communication programs that the regional AP comms team is responsible for:

• Small business programs and expanding merchant acceptance
• Corporate storytelling to drive Visa’s critical growth pillars of value-added services and money movement
• Regional positions on innovations shaping the payments landscape, such as data privacy and cybersecurity
• Strategic initiatives
• Reputation challenges and opportunities associated with all of the above, including defining the value of Visa and issues/crisis management.

You will lead or work on communication programs that incorporate every aspect of the communications discipline, including public relations and social media (press announcements, key messaging, media interviews, bylines), client-facing communication (leading development of client-facing thought leadership collateral, supporting major client events as run by the Client Communication team) and employee communication (working closely with the Employee Communication team to promote functional priorities on internal channels and at the annual regional market kickoff meeting.)

You will work with the most senior leaders in the region to help them achieve their business objectives through strategic communication programs, and you will have a chance to work closely with colleagues in every market in Asia Pacific, as well as our global colleagues in the broader communication team.

Le Pub is looking for a Strategy Director to join the team immediately. If you’ve got 8-10 years of experience in communications strategy, brand building and design brand experience/ customer journey– we’d love to hear from you.

Discipline overview

The Strategy Director is responsible for creating powerful visions and roadmaps for brands - bridging brand strategy, campaign planning, experience design and innovation. With a rich background in brand and communications planning + passion for innovation + obsession with popular culture, the director is a project leader and trusted advisor across the agency and client world.

Job Description

Your role as Strategy Director is defined by 3 key areas of responsibility:

1. Leading the strategic recommendation to build & grow brands to support client business growth:
   • Provide strategic thinking and consumer insights suitable for developing Global Brand Communications/Platforms and Campaigns.
   • inspire, drive, and deliver strategic thinking and frameworks suitable for Tiger’s & Heineken’s overarching platforms and campaigns
   • Have deep understanding of client business to provide consultant POV on what is the right things to do
2. Have gravitas and ability to Hold strategic conversations with senior clients, and define key priorities for the account to support the growth agenda.
   • Champion strategic direction and elevate creative output on the account.

d.     Via annual planning conversations to help define priorities for investment and what is required to deliver this

e.     Via strategic approach for global and regional campaigns that build a global brand yet are locally relevant. You will work closely with the local planning team and data points from local markets to ensure we have local insights reflected in our global campaign where applicable

f.      Lead the integration of capabilities and external partners to deliver a seamless campaign ecosystem

g.     Via giving creative direction that delivers the most effective expression of the aligned strategy on the brand & campaign. Working closely with the creative and account team to inspire and shape the work to our global standard

h.     Inspire and elevate creative work for the brands

2.     Be the brand governance for local markets:

a.     Involve in local campaigns and support strategic rigour as well as inspire and elevate creative outputs.

b.     Provide guidance for local implementation of the global campaign and beyond to ensure brand consistency yet apply what works well locally to achieve success

c.     Review and support the strategic direction and creative output for local campaigns (done by local markets)

Expectations as a member of our LePub global planning community

●      You believe passionately in the power of Creativity-Data-Culture. You are curious about what’s happening worldwide and within your client business & consumers. You have a keen perspective on Brands vs Culture, inspiring the team & clients with your thought leadership and best practice in building meaningful brands in culture.

●      Your ideas and voice will be heard, respected and protected with passion. Ideas are not disposable commodities; they are our most precious assets

●      You will be tested and challenged, but you will equally be supported, encouraged and celebrated. Because the true value of a community is that we bring out the best in each other

What you’ll do:

As Director, Business Development, you will be responsible for driving growth in the region and implementing the sales strategy in acquiring new logos for Epsilon’s MarTech business. An opportunity to have real influence and recognition within an innovative, dynamic, and ambitious company. Epsilon is looking for a sales leader with the experience, creativity, passion and strategic vision to help with our ambitious growth plans.

You will have the following roles and responsibilities:

• Own and drive top line revenue growth for Epsilon’s MarTech business.
• Strategic & consultative sales planning.
• Lead conversations with CMOs/CIOs of prospective clients in the pre-sales and solutioning process to bring a consultative approach to their marketing and sales challenges. Strong understanding of both Epsilon’s MarTech and AdTech offerings.
• Orchestrate work between the Clients, Client Services, Product & Delivery teams to ensure high quality service.
• Act as the voice of the clients across the organization and champion Epsilon’s products and solutions with the clients.

What you’ll be measured on:

• As Director, Business Development, you will be measured on the following key performance areas:
• Building a high performing sales organization for Epsilon in the region.
• Building relationships with CMOs and CIOs across global and regional brands.
• Achieving/exceeding planned Sales Revenue Targets & Margins across Epsilon’s solutions.
• Ensuring highest levels of customer satisfaction by working collaboratively with Client Services, Product & Delivery teams

• To maximize sales earnings and profitability by winning new clients, achieved by successful implementation of the sales plan.  On-going contribution to the continued improvement of the sales and marketing team through the development of documentation and processes that support short, medium and long term sales and marketing strategies.
• Required to market and sell IQ-EQ services and business development across Asia
• Win new business prospects by creating, refining and implementing Asia sales strategy.
• Manage and develop the new business sales process, procedures and related documentation.
• Lead relationships with third parties (lawyers, accountants, placement agents, financial advisers, valuation providers, bankers, etc.).
• Manage and refine marketing strategy including promotional activities such as mailshots and press releases.
• Represent IQ-EQ at industry seminars, networking events and conferences.
• Target profitable potential leads aligned with IQ-EQ’s target business profile and sector.
• Lead sales process from initial contact, meeting and presentations, fee proposal process, negotiation and closing.
• Create and deliver presentations, RFPs and fee proposals.
• Develop an understanding of new clients’ business model and processes. Identify opportunities to add value to clients through referrals and introductions to other product ranges which will result in additional income.
• Establish and foster effective relationships with new business prospects and industry contacts to strengthen IQ-EQs’ name and reputation within the industry.
• Facilitate an effective end-to-end lead generation engagement process when tendering for business.
• Contribute to the collection of market intelligence to ensure IQ-EQ has up-to-date data on potential target customer base and competitors.
• Maintain hands-on relationships with new clients until they are taken on by client services team.
• Act as the facilitator and coordinate work required from IQ-EQ by the client in the new business stage to ensure that it is successfully completed.
• Manage and complete work required by the client in the new business stage (including guidance through the fund-raising stage, interaction with fund formation lawyers, and assistance with fund documentation as required by the client).
• Develop and refine the sales function by mapping out sales-related processes/procedures and communicating these to the team.

NielsenIQ BASES helps clients from various industries such as FMCG, finance, pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize new product or services that generate profitable growth. We do this by identifying unmet consumer demand, optimizing innovations to deliver on that demand, quantifying the opportunity of those innovations and help accelerate commercialization success with more precise launch plans and real-time optimization of in-market activities.

Responsibilities

• Direct revenue responsibility and ownership of commercial agenda for a portfolio of clients
• Support the business growth by hunting for new business opportunities beyond the current portfolio of clients
• Develop and manage client relationships by designing research studies to solve innovation related business issues
• Strong consultative and analytical skills are a must along with an understanding of overall commercial goals, as a requirement in this role will be to identify future opportunities through client engagement / spot repeat business potential and carry those conversations forward
• Senior level client engagement is a must – associate must be comfortable and confident to explain difference in innovation approaches, align/understand and speak to how our solutions/outcomes fit with client business and strategic goals
• Associate would be expected to lead/own other work streams such as training programs, thought leadership pieces, etc.
• Liaise with other internal teams like analysts and operations to get the right study design and timelines

We’re expanding and are actively looking for an experienced and highly motivated talent to join our Revenue team. You’ll be working alongside Partnership, Marketing and Customer Success team to generate sales leads in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Build business development pipeline by proactively identifying opportunities and engaging with key prospects
• Plan and execute a territory plan with clear account prioritisation
• Build relationships with multiple stakeholders and influencers across the customers’ organisations

• Uncover customers’ pressures, challenges and priorities to effectively position our offering to meet their business objectives
• Participate in pricing and tender/proposal reviews with senior management to ensure alignment to the customer requirements
• Possess a thorough knowledge of the market, and the solutions and services Xtremax provides

• Minimum 5 years of relevant sales experience
• Impressive track record in B2B or B2G sales, with key established connections in the relevant sector
• History of successfully developing and maintaining senior client relationships
• Demonstrate good empathy and listening skills

• A highly self-motivated and independent initiator with excellent interpersonal skills
• A team player who is willing to work for the success of the team and its goals
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills
• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
  

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Colliers International is the fastest growing Commercial Real Estate Services provider globally. Here at Colliers, we pride ourselves on our enterprising, collaborative and growth mindset culture. This growth and our commitment to investing in our people and platform has created the need for an enterprising real estate professional to join our team as the Business Development Director | Enterprise Clients Asia, based out of our regional headquarters in Singapore.

This role reports directly into the Managing Director, Occupier Services | APAC and partners with the local market Occupier Leaders and Enterprise Client leads across the region to grow our service offering to Enterprise Clients Asia wide. This is an opportunity for an entrepreneurial real estate expert to lead the growth of  the Enterprise Services sector in a key regional hub, with the opportunity to influence across the wider Colliers global market.

To be successful in this position, you will possess a proven capability of client engagement, business development, inspirational people leadership  and cross functional collaboration.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• In collaboration with the Managing Director, Occupier Services | APAC and local Occupier Leads, develop a consistent client engagement strategy across the occupier service lines to create strong relationships, financial opportunities & outcomes.
• Act as the lead public figure in client communication to build C-level relationships across the most profitable and targeted accounts.
• Support in developing a highly capable localised teams through competitor talent attraction and internal capability building.
• Deliver a consistent message around our service proposition across the Asia market.
• In collaboration with the Research Department, create consistent Occupier relevant thematic reporting.
• Expand the scope of the centralised service lines which include Lease Administration, Enterprise Project Management and Portfolio Consulting.
• Ensure the service delivery quality across the Enterprise Client landscape is consistent and best in class.
• Be the APAC lead on Enterprise Clients globally, through regular global conference calls and pitches with the UK & EMEA colleagues.
• Actively engage and with Corenet and be the Colliers leader.
• In collaboration with the Business Development Centre, drive the bid response regionally for all Enterprise pitches.
• Oversee the pricing regionally for all Enterprise Clients.

Team Summary

The Products and Solutions function is responsible for product management, product strategy, providing the thought leadership and long-term design for the development and growth of Visa’s products across the Asia Pacific (AP) region. The Product Development and Commercialisation is a horizontal service group, within Regional Product team that has end-to-end responsibility for building and delivering new capabilities aligned with the AP Product Roadmap.

What a Director – Deployment Strategy will do:

The Director will be a member of the leadership team reporting to the AP Regional Head of Product Development and Commercialisation and will lead and own strategy initiatives. The incumbent will lead end to end strategy as well as the deployment and development efforts of the regional muti year plans.

Essentially, the individual will:

• Work with and support Product verticals and markets and owns the development of strategies with alignment of the regional and global priorities.
• Front regional business planning and develop proposals to address product roadmap development needs
• Monitor competitive developments across the region as well as globally, and be involved in the development of timely responses to emerging trends and opportunities across AP.
• A typical effort may entail working closely with senior stakeholders to understand and logically structure the problem, develop hypothesis, work with cross-functional teams to validate the hypothesis, develop strategy to address the problem, and develop recommendations and execution plan to present to the regional leadership.
• Lead end-to-end strategy efforts with a small team of analysts. The strategy efforts can range from developing focused product strategies in responding to developing market trends to developing multi-year plans for the region, addressing emerging competitive and economic model issues, managing commercial response to regulatory changes, developing cross-product programs, and supporting strategic investment assessments.
• Collaborate and work across markets, cultures and teams within Visa as well as client organizations.
• Lead a team and program manage deployment efforts to ensure timely delivery as well as launch of key initiatives

The position will be based in Singapore with some travel expected.

Why this is important to Visa

As we roll out products and solutions in an extremely dynamic marketplace, being able ro purposefully define, plann, and execute against long-term strategic priorities will be principal determinants of success. The Deployment Strategy team will be the owners of Visa’s product roadmap in the AP region and will provide the stewardship, tools, and processes to make it a reality.

Asia Regional FP&A

• Measure and track business performance in the Asia region on a monthly basis
• Provide monthly regional management P&L reports to the Asia management team 
• Manage key processes of a) annual Budget planning with guidance, key milestones, and target setting, and b) quarterly Forecast updates in collaboration with the Corporate Planning across the Asia region
• Support Head of Finance-Asia to drive initiatives and projects, by partnering with business and functional teams, such as new business models, M&A, and system implementations
• Business partnering and decision-making support for driving expected performances and achieving strategic objectives and financial goals
• Take leadership to optimize cross-functional processes and collaborate to maximize impact on businesses, customers, and teams
• Drive transformation and simplification of business processes with development of mindset to success
• Drive strong collaboration with country finance teams – provide coaching on FP&A related deliverables, business cases analysis, scenario planning and simulations
• Partner with CFU/HF/CF to ensure financial KPIs and reporting requirements
• Perform a standard costing process for Asia RDC operations – manage control principles and procedures in collaboration with SCM team
• Manage Finance master data in existing ERP and for the future SAP project.
• Establish strong functioning FP&A team for Asia Region - lead, coach and develop FP&A analysts

Country FP&A for Singapore/Alliance Cluster

• Perform quarterly forecast, annual budgeting, and monthly performance reviews with reconciliation analysis between actuals and forecasts
• Provide valuable input for decision-making support such as new product launch
• Work with functions to prepare budget / forecasts and consolidate them into country P&L
• Collaborate with Market Access function on pricing strategy and price setting, provide financial analysis to safeguard gross margin and ensure sustainable profitability

We are seeking a Director of Strategy and Planning for our newly established VAS organization in the Asia Pacific region. This role, much like a COO, is instrumental in driving the success of the VAS organization through disciplined business management, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration.

Reporting to the Head of VAS GTM, Commercialization, and Business Management for AP, the Director will be responsible for aligning goals across various functions, implementing strategic growth initiatives, supporting data-driven decision-making, and enhancing operational efficiency. This role calls for an individual with the ability to navigate a matrixed organization, influencing and collaborating with various functions including Country teams, Product, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, and Client Services.

The successful candidate will be based in Singapore, working closely with both Hub and market leaders.

This role is an excellent opportunity for individuals who thrive on variety and enjoy tackling new challenges each day. If you have a strong commercial outlook, are proficient with numbers, and are confident about your interpersonal skills, we would love to hear from you.

Primary responsibilities:

• Strategy Execution: Translate, shape, and execute the Global VAS strategy at the regional level. This involves cross-functional alignment across the Hub and Markets, and a data-led approach to drive sustained VAS revenue growth, client retention, and Visa industry leadership.
• Performance Tracking and Continuous Improvement: Identify and set regional VAS performance targets and KPIs with the VAS Head. Establish a tight review cadence (QBRs, MBRs) to closely monitor metrics tied to Sales, Revenue, and Product performance. Continually refine the regional go-to-market strategy, commercialization process, and sales enablement programs based on performance data, market research, and client feedback.
• Business Planning: Partner with the VAS Leadership Team, Specialist sellers, Market VAS teams and Client Account Executives to develop market and client-specific business plans and targets aligned to the overall VAS strategy.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment and collaboration on key initiatives.
• Governance: Manage a formal governance process to ensure investment, commercialization, pilot, and delivery standards are met as Products evolve from Global development to revenue-generating deployments with regional clients. Contribute to and adhere to consistent governance steps for product/solution GTM.
• Operations Excellence: Work across regional and global functions to resolve persistent operational challenges such as billing, contracting, and CS support.

Be visionary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to safeguarding lives with cutting-edge sensing and threat detection technologies. Our arsenal includes advanced surveillance sensors, handheld devices, unmanned vehicles, lasers, and more solutions that increase operational effectiveness for warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams.

We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense industry. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on life-saving solutions, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.

#TeledyneFLIRDefenseJobs

Together, we are limitless!

At Teledyne FLIR, we have a simple but ambitious mission: to develop market-leading infrared and sensing technologies that enhance everyday life.  Be part of the journey to be the World's Sixth Sense!

Our Defense APAC business requires an outstanding individual to join us and help to increase our sales and market share, while developing increased long-term opportunities.  Develop and execute pursuit strategies for high value Teledyne FLIR Defense products across the Surveillance, UAS, UGS, and IS product spectra. Lead the proposal process for all pursuits and support key customers by anticipating future customer requirements and needs to capture both minor and major programs, with particular focus in South and East Asia.

You will be working within a busy diverse Sales & Business Development Team across multiple product lines as well as with other departments such as product management, services, engineering, and compliance. You will develop a long-term understanding of Teledyne FLIR Defense’s target markets in your assigned region, and work closely with the APAC Sales & Business Development Team to foster a pipeline focused on long term growth in orders bookings and develop a backlog of orders across multiple product lines.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Be a key contributor in a collaborative APAC sales team, executing Teledyne FLIR’s objectives throughout the region, with principal focus in South and East Asia.
• Carry out regular analysis of market needs and competitive scenarios, providing feedback to leadership.
• Promote, develop, and conclude sales of Teledyne FLIR Defense products to OEMs, end users, and integrators across the APAC region.
• Identify and develop business partners in the APAC region to support the long-term sales growth of Teledyne FLIR Defense.
• Develop strategies and options favorable to Teledyne FLIR Defense, to capture business opportunities in India within the “Make in India” framework.
• Manage the sales and business development process with an emphasis on predictable growth and success in orders capture.
• Support operational execution including licensing requirements, administrative tasks, etc.
• Be the main POC for assigned customers and end users, from order capture through post-sales support.
• Manage sales pursuits within the APAC region including regular monitoring and timely responses to RFQ, RFPs, demo requests, and information requests.
• Set and meet or exceed booking forecasts for assigned customers and territories.

Job Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level or be able to demonstrate solid experience in a similar defense working environment.
• Proven experience with sales in the military and para-public market space is highly advantageous.
• Experience with EO and thermal imaging markets is advantageous.
• Experience with unmanned air and ground systems markets is advantageous.
• Experience with Airborne, Border Protection, Land, and Maritime markets is advantageous.
• The successful candidate will have the ability to work at all levels of a customer or end user organization.
• As well as being technically adept, you will have experience with Government tenders and competitive bids using strong persuasive oral and writing skills. 
• You will be motivated to achieve demanding Team sales targets.
• It will be advantageous if you understand the underlying business principles, sales processes, and a demonstrated ability to understand technical factors associated with our products and markets. 
• A military background would benefit the candidate.
• Computer skills to support proposal preparation, presentations and customer relationship management are essential.
• The ability to work cross-functionally is required for this role.
• Analysis skills are critical for future product investments.
• English is essential. Other regional languages would be advantageous.
• The ability to travel extensively is an essential requirement of the role.
• Awareness of statutory and corporate FCPA, export licensing and foreign trade rules.

• Team player but capable of working independently, self-starter, able to work under pressure, flexible approach, able to work outside of personal comfort zone. 

Still interested?  Please go ahead and apply, we look forward to meeting you.

Take a look… Teledyne FLIR – All of This https://youtu.be/2zR1L0pR0Hs

This position requires access to export-controlled information or items (i.e. regulated technology or technical data per ITAR/EAR US regulations). Applicants must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

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Overview:

The project director will play a pivotal role in planning, executing, and closing projects within specified deadlines and budgets. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams (creative, account servicing, finance and production), ensuring seamless communication and successful delivery of advertising campaigns for our diverse client base.

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning and Initiation:
  • Work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to understand project requirements, objectives, and deliverables.
  • Develop comprehensive documentation; scope of work and project plans, outlining timelines, resource requirements, and milestones.
  • Manage a wide range of projects delivering traditional creatives (e.g. TVC/film, print, OOH, radio, etc.), digital creatives (e.g. CMS, digital assets/content, microsites, digital banners, social, etc.), CRM (strategy & implementation), website / platform builds and/or brand development.
• Team Collaboration:
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  • Lead and motivate cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative and creative working environment.
  • Ensure effective communication between team members, facilitating productive discussions and resolving conflicts.
  • Manage 3rd party partners / agencies (for film/photo/print production and digital production) needed to deliver the project scope.
  • Facilitate internal reviews (creative/strategic/functional/technical)with the team to ensure quality output. 
• Resource Allocation:
  • Work with the creative services manager(s) and the department heads to identify the right creative team to allocate projects, considering the skills and strengths of team members.
  • Monitor workloads and work with the creative services manager(s) and the department heads to identify and address resourcing needs including the reassignment of team members, and/or sourcing for additional team members / freelancers when necessary.
  • Work with the project team (strategy, data & analytics, creative, account management, media, etc.) in establishing staffing plans
  • Work with and help the client lead in the overall agency capacity planning.
• Budget Management:
  • Develop and manage project budgets, tracking expenses and ensuring financial objectives are met.
  • Manage vendors & 3rd party relations and documentation (PO, Invoice, etc.)
  • Provide regular financial updates to the account servicing team, highlighting any budgetary concerns and proposing solutions.
• Risk Management:
  • Identify potential risks and challenges early in the project lifecycle.
  • Develop risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans to address unforeseen issues.
• Client Communication:
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, providing regular updates on project status and addressing any client concerns.
  • Ensure client expectations are managed effectively, and feedback is incorporated into project plans.
• Quality Assurance:
  • Implement quality control processes to ensure the delivery of high-quality campaigns.
  • Conduct thorough reviews of project deliverables to ensure they align with client expectations and agency standards.
  • Flag known & potential issues/risk to the business leads and account management team and provide solutions to address those issues/risks.
• Project Documentation:
  • Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, scope of work, requirements specifications, schedules and status reports and contact reports.
  • Ensure that all project documentation is organized and easily accessible for team members and stakeholders.

The APAC Project Management (Integration) is responsible for overseeing and managing the successful integration of various business units, systems, processes, and technologies within an organization. This role involves developing and executing integration strategies, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring the alignment of projects with the overall business objectives. As a member of the APAC Commercial Excellence team, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in driving efficiency, scalability, and synergy through effective project management and communication. 

Responsibilities 

Stand-up fully integrated org structure 

• Overseeing consistent implementation of org design principles (span of control, separation of service and sales, revenues/FTE, etc.)
• Change management - training, new leader assimilation, town halls, manager forums 
• Enabling cross-company managers to navigate 2 different eco-systems: expectations, processes, systems - how to simplify, appoint delegate, etc 

Business Management 

• Implement and enforce a single E2E billing and collections process across the combined business 
• Proposal and contract approval flow, consistent across both businesses.  
• Tracking integration cost savings, actions, progress, status 
• Integrate/Build culture 
• Integrating and building our new culture eg. ERG, People & Planet Day, Engage results, etc.  

The Senior Director, Strategy, Business Planning and Operations of the AP Marketing group will be responsible for business and workforce planning, strategy development and execution, budget management, management and control of the strategic project portfolio, provision of business support to markets, including enhancing business processes to maximize internal and in-market performance.

This role is a key member of the AP Marketing leadership team, working closely with both hub and in market leads to facilitate planning, strategy and reporting activities.  This role is the key liaison between global Marketing & strategy function and the region, as well as a key member of the regional BPO network.  This role requires a strong commercial, financial and strategic mindset to ensure its successful delivery, and involves working closely with the various functional teams including Client Relationship Managers, Strategy, Product, Merchant Sales & Solutions and subject matter experts across the organization in the AP Region.

This role reports to the Chief Marketing Officer of Asia Pacific region.

Responsibilities

Business / Strategy

- Lead the AP Marketing group in business planning, strategy development, drive
effective leadership and operations through management of key business
processes

• Facilitate AP Marketing financial targets / goals, analyze portfolio performance and
  recommend changes to achieve goals as necessary
• Manage and drive key strategic projects, which typically require cross-functional collaboration
  from initiation to execution, ensuring alignment with organization, business
  and market priorities
• Enhance the effectiveness of the AP Marketing team by pursuing initiatives
  and process enhancements identified during annual planning sessions,
  performance audits, quarterly and monthly business reviews and issue-drive
  roadmaps
• Provide ad-hoc analysis and decision support as necessary
  
  Planning / Operational
   
• Elevate FBR / QBR outputs, data points and materials for AP Marketing team and
  provide ongoing monitoring and actions relating to QBRs / MYPs / Country
  Acceleration Plans. Ensure focus on important variances, trends and issues
• Oversee the Annual Operating Plan and annual OKR / goal setting process ensuring that market goals are aligned with AP Marketing strategy
• Develop an effective tracking mechanism that monitors progress towards the agreed targets and
  objectives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance and generate regular AP
  Marketing dashboards, provide support in preparation of presentation materials
  for business review, management events and conferences
• Continue to review, enhance business process to drive greater efficiency and share best practices within AP Marketing markets
• Manage multi-year planning across AP Marketing
• Collaborate with Finance Business Partner to drive quarterly forecasting and
  annual operating plan

Duke Corporate Education is seeking a motivated Project Director to join our team of experienced business and learning experts. As part of our premier global leadership solutions provider, the Project Director will play a key role in developing and driving leadership development solutions for our clients. Duke CE is a blend of business and university, bringing both real-world insight and academic rigor to provide flexible and creative solutions for our clients. As a Project Director, you will be working with challenges to find the right leadership solutions that enable our clients' leaders to adapt and move the organization forward.

While this position primarily supports our Singapore offices, candidates may be based in either London or Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Translate client needs into actionable project plans and drive progress towards deliverables.
• Manage project budget, contract, and timelines to ensure successful project completion.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure project progress and quality standards are met.
• Lead project team members by providing feedback, guidance, and support to ensure project milestones and goals are met.
• Prepare and deliver status updates and presentations to clients and internal teams.
• Identify, track, and communicate project risks and issues to drive resolution.
• Compile and analyze data to evaluate project performance.

Must Haves

• Minimum 5 years of experience in project management, education management industry preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in business or related field required, Master's degree preferred.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and influence project team members to drive success.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with project management software and tools.

Duke CE invites all applicants who meet the job requirements to apply. Appointments will be made in line with our business needs.

This role, which is accountable for Project Profitability, Implementing strategy for entire Event management team including industry and government engagement, driving Sales through an experienced team of sales professionals. Partnering with the Event and Sales lead in the Market Pillar to develop and deliver the sales strategy in the Market Pillar via the achievement of stretch Sales targets.  Leads, manages and develops a team of event and sales professionals along with creating new products in the evolving conference world of blending digital and physical networking.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop Plans and implement strategies into event timeline include Sales, Marketing, VisProm and Operations includes timely report, update, and event management.
• Government and Trade Association Engagement
• Marketplace Engagement on Sales and Visitors
• Partner with the Sales Lead in the Market Pillar in the development of integrated sales strategy and plans, ensuring they are effectively communicated and executed by the wider team.  
• Participate or lead group wide Project Management
• Management and Leadership capability – able to recruit, hire, onboard, manage and motivate a high performing event or project team.
• Develop, coach and grow the Event Management and Sales team to reach their full potential in an environment where there are fair opportunities for all. Coaching them to use the process and achieve the vision
• Drive revenue delivery through sales team hitting and exceeding all sales goals/KPI’s
• Developing and maintaining positive working relationships across Informa
• Ability to read and analyse data, use data to measure and improve performance.
• Deliver Sales/Revenue targets through existing and new Customers and new products
• Reporting accurate personal and team-based forecasting and performance metrics to key internal and external stakeholders, highlighting revenue risks and opportunities
• Identifying and participating in the development of new products, solutions and target market prospects to secure high value new business
• Developing key account relationships, exploring and developing strategic account plans to identify opportunities to cross/upsell, involving internal specialists in the process to align with business and customer needs
• Delivering innovative and cost-effective solutions, recognising the need to effectively reflect landscape, client needs, market conditions, and Informa products and solutions
• Fostering and leading internal partnerships, ensuring collaboration is driven with a customer focus
• Maximising usage and adherence to Informa systems and processes, adopting a best practice and facilitating developments in line with internal and external requirements
• Salesforce compliance, reporting and forecasting. Coach salespeople to use the process and achieve the vision.