Commerce Director

Why join KINESSO?

• Largest global digital marketing agency with 6200+ experts across 60 offices globally.
• Take the time you deserve with unlimited time off (Leave+), birthday, anniversary, monthly wellness days and progressive parental leave policies.
• A hybrid working model and incredible office culture. with opportunities for global transfers, internal secondments, and travel.
• Mentorship programs, learning modules and professional skills training to support your career ambitions.
• Wellness programs including access to an EAP and wellness coaching
• Agency perks, early finish Fridays, culture club, breakfast, health and wellbeing initiatives

The Director of Commerce is responsible for advancing client outcomes across eRetail, Marketplaces, D2C, affiliates and omni-channel commerce. Supported by a Commerce Executive, and reporting into the Commerce Lead, they will partner with Performance Directors and our other Product teams to pitch, educate, grow, and deliver on projects and campaigns that sit across strategy, media, experience, and content.

Your role will likely prioritise and lead client relationships including the strategy and activation where necessary. You will play a core role in the evolution of internal capability around retail media and commerce with clients, running retail media & ensuring our teams remain are able to deliver on cutting edge Commerce requirements. You’ll also be positioned as a trusted advisor to both internal and external senior business leaders and expected to be connected in with other Commerce Leaders globally.

About the role:

• Lead core client conversations and Commerce growth for Sydney based clients (unless otherwise agreed)
• Deliver Commerce audits, and prepare proposals and pitch work to answer client needs both proactively and reactively
• Support and priortise the Commerce Executive (and possibly others, in future) outputs and deadlines, and work with wider client teams and lead, where necessary, to ensure timely and quality work is delivered to clients.
• Collaborate with the Commerce Lead to build a strategy for enabling Commerce capability to be expanded across the business, including internal training & development programs
• Support the Commerce Lead in operating as a trusted advisor to clients, and partner agencies
• Lead cross-craft squads on multidisciplinary retail/commerce focused client briefs
• Work alongside agency teams and commercial finance teams to accelerate commercial objectives and deliver on a healthy margin

About you:

• The ideal candidate will have relevant Industry exposure and experience within one or more commerce area, including D2C, Omnichannel, Marketplaces (e.g. Amazon), eRetail (e.g. Woolworths), Shopper Marketing or affiliates.
• You have a ‘lean in’ attitude and the ability to positively influence stakeholders.
• You will have prior experience and a strong understanding of people leadership.
• Experience in CitrusAd, Google Ads, Pacvue, Amazon Advertising, Google Data Studio is beneficial
• Experience in consultancy or agency highly regarded.
• Experience of supply chains, forecasting, aftersales support and platforms such as Commerce CMS, CRM, CRO (beneficial but not required.)
• Good to have thinking around attribution and modelling (beneficial but not required.)
• Experience of working across multiple concurrent projects or brands (beneficial but not required.)

About KINESSO

KINESSO is the technology-driven performance marketing agency that sits at the very heart of IPG Mediabrands, providing actionable growth for both our agency partners and clients. We turn ‘action’ into ‘outcome’ for our clients, leveraging our unique capabilities in optimization, analytics, AI and experimentation. KINESSO has brought together the collective power of what was formerly Matterkind, Reprise, and Kinesso under one collective entity that will serve as the most powerful delivery engine in the industry.

We have extensive offerings spanning across performance marketing and data and technology. Fueled by a deep understanding of consumer behavior, we offer an end-to-end engine of planning and optimization while also delivering on data-driven strategy for social platforms, actionable growth in e-commerce, and creating curated marketplaces specific to each client's function and needs. The company has more than 6,000 employees operating in more than 60 countries. Learn more at www.KINESSO.com

We value unique backgrounds and experiences to encourage and celebrate diversity. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQ+, people of all ages, people with disabilities, and people who are culturally and linguistically diverse are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.