Business Director
Today, Australia

We are a design and innovation company, built on purpose. We spend our days designing more inclusive systems and sustainable futures. We do this with strategic and digital design.

We are looking for an experienced leader to join our team and lead one of our four multi-disciplinary teams and client portfolios. Your days will be spent collaborating with incredibly talented, interesting, curious, lovely, and passionate peopleall with a fundamentally shared sense of purpose.

As a Business Director at Today, you will lead engagements with key clients in your portfolio establishing meaningful partnerships, resulting in valuable societal and environmental impact. You will have extensive design and digital experience to identify the optimal way forward for our clients.

You demonstrate strategic leadership and a great ability to drive organisational change through design. You should be adept at creating and driving client development plans, leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver impactful work, and building client trust through results.

You will be an effective people leader, with experience supporting multidisciplinary team members in a project-led environment.

We are mostly based in ngar-go (Fitzroy, Melbourne) and we welcome applications from all lands and backgrounds. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTIQA+) people.

Requirements

You have:

• At least three years of experience leading and supporting a large teampreferably a multi-disciplinary team in an agency context. You have demonstrated excellent results in supporting and developing a team of curious, passionate, and dedicated individuals
• A proven ability to deliver growth in revenue and repeat business by successfully building and nurturing deep client relationships
• Experience writing proposals, managing a pipeline of proposals, with an excellent track record of success
• Demonstrated experience communicating and delivering broad strategic initiatives to key, senior stakeholders
• Sound understanding of various delivery methodologies such as lean product development and development agile etc.
• Comfort with data and performance metrics to report up to leadership (revenue reporting, team performance, efficiency reporting etc.)
• Integrity, passion, and ability to drive social and environmental change

You will spend your days:

• Leading and supporting a happy and successful team (~10 people) that is producing impactful, best-in-class work. Your success is measured by the success of those around you
• Managing a strong pipeline of work for both new business and existing clients
• Transforming our clients’ organisations, by leveraging insight and ideation to solve complex challenges and help them realise their strategic vision
• Driving client development plans on your key accounts to identify growth opportunities
• Guiding your team to deliver world-class thinking, presentations, and meaningful innovation across brands, products, services, and experiences
• Collaborating closely with our multi-disciplinary teams to ensure excellent project outcomes
• Writing proposals, presenting to clients
• Working with a bunch of talented people who all share the same vision that we can change this world for the better
• Supporting your team to share their knowledge and experiences to build capability and confidence

Benefits

We work on work with purpose. Our projects see us finding solutions to big, complex challenges around climate, care and communities.

Above all else we strive to protect our team’s capacity for resilience and their general wellbeing. This goes beyond our dog-friendly workplace and regular pub lunches as a team.

• We offer a compelling career framework and learning budget to support your growth
• Today is a truly flexible workplace, making space and valuing the other important parts of your life, including generous parental leave and your birthday off
• You are actively empowered to help shape the business, the work we do and the impact we create
• We have an open workplace culture that asks for everyone’s input and is constantly welcoming new ideas and ways of working
• You will work in close-knit, multi-disciplinary, self-managed project teams that make interesting, beautiful things that positively impact the community
• Everyone is equally talented and trusts each other to experiment, and suggest new ways to crack client problems
• There are frequent and respected check-in sessions

Job Rewards and Benefits