Responsibilities
Serve as a senior day‐to‐day strategic partner to clients, leading programs across modern earned media, reputation, corporate communications, executive visibility, and thought leadership.
Shape narratives, storylines, and media recommendations grounded in a strong understanding of client business priorities, audiences, and the broader Australian media landscape.
Lead integrated account planning, building clear workback schedules, action trackers, ownership maps, and delivery plans across campaigns, announcements, executive visibility programs, and always‐on media activity.
Bring strong program and project management discipline, proactively managing timelines, dependencies, approvals, blockers, and stakeholder inputs to keep complex workstreams moving at pace.
Create operational rigour across accounts, ensuring priorities, actions, deadlines and follow‐ups are clearly documented, visible to the team, and consistently progressed.
Lead account planning and program design informed by the full B2B spectrum, from SMBs to large enterprises.
Drive strong earned and media outcomes through active journalist relationships, credible strategic counsel, and smart angle development.
Write and oversee high‐quality communications materials including media releases, pitches, messaging frameworks, op‐eds, executive briefing documents, and thought leadership content.
Confidently pitch stories to journalists and editors, tailoring angles to priority outlets, verticals, and audience interest.
Monitor issues, trends, competitor activity, and industry developments to identify proactive and reactive communications opportunities.
Manage team workflows, deliverables and deadlines to ensure consistent quality, accountability and seamless delivery across accounts.




Demonstrate smart time management and prioritisation, balancing competing deadlines, knowing when to escalates issues, and bringing structure and calm to busy periods.
Be a collaborative team player, working with colleagues across levels and functions, supporting junior team members and contributing to a positive, solutions‐focused team culture.
Provide clear guidance, mentoring and support to junior team members, strengthening media instincts, communications craft and client service.
Support senior leaders in forecasting, budgeting, scopes of work and overall account health.
Qualifications and Experience
At least 8+ years of relevant experience in Communications, Marketing and/or related fields, including research, management consulting, media or publishing.
Strong earned media operator with deep knowledge of the Australian media landscape and what drives coverage today.
Experienced in B2B communications and comfortable navigating complex business environments, stakeholder groups, decision‐making structures and technical subject matter.
Highly organised with robust program‐management instincts and the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with confidence and precision.
Excellent writer, storyteller and strategic thinker with proven pitching success and strong editorial judgement.
Calm under pressure, solutions‐oriented, proactive in identifying risks, resolving blockers, and driving momentum.
Collaborative and commercially minded, with strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivery excellence.
Equal Opportunity
Edelman is committed to creating equality and diversity in our workforce.
We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, nationality, disability, gender or age.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
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📌 Associate Client Director (Melbourne)
🏢 AP090 Edelman Australia
📍 Melbourne