Digital Practice Lead

Job type
Location
Auckland
Salary
NZD140000 - NZD180000 per annum, Benefits: Flexibility & bonus available
Reference
BH-12781
The business:
Rarely do you see a team bound by purpose to actually help customers grow. This team is the most awarded independent agency in NZ who combine commercial, technical and customer thinking to provision a unified approach to maximise brand power and market presence for their clients.  Offering better enablement and empowerment through digital systems and data asset acquisition they equip their customers with reusable knowledge and predictable yields on ROI for marketing and media campaigns.  This has led to strong growth for this business, doubling the team and onboarding multiple new hero customers and brands.  In addition, a necessity for a new leader to enter the business and head up their Digital (Salesforce and Cloud) practice.

Why now?
The role of Digital Practice Lead is a powerful one for this business. The opportunity for an effective, contemporary leader to bring new thinking to their clients and set a new benchmark for digital enablement. Strong technical thinking is required to bolster the value in this area of marrying customers’ needs with transparency and predictability of campaigns. This role will be able to understand the technology whilst building an effective team, catering to the changing needs for the digital services suite. Working with the founders, vendors and customers, you'll have the chance to grow your career like no other time and be part of one of New Zealand's shining stars.

The role:
The journey of growth and change this business has been on has been radical. And it's not slowing down. A leadership role has emerged to lead and manage the digital Salesforce and Cloud practice within the business.

The role breaks down into four core components:
  • Technology roadmap: vision and leadership; commercial to technical; build and run
  • Practice leadership: growth and management of your area and small team (initially!)
  • Delivery leadership: predictable milestones and commercial acumen
  • Technical leadership: Go to woah, internal teams/stakeholder and partner management, matching technology with customers needs
The fit:
To be able to fulfill this role you will be driven by the opportunity to influence the direction of the technology side of the business. You’ll celebrate the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of customers and grow them, igniting a sense of ‘uh-huh!’ In their understanding of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Cloud platforms and digital enablement. Emerging from a technical and business background you’ll understand Salesforce, Marketing Cloud and be on the path to understanding ROI in marketing and media campaigns.  You’ll be happy to learn to build and execute against a roadmap and vision, contributing to strategy. Reporting directly to the Managing Director you'll marry delivery and technical leadership in the fast-paced world of contemporary business.

For more info please contact Julian on julian@potentia.co.nz