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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Employment Hero (EH) is an Australian tech unicorn growing ~100% every year, fuelled by an all-in-one platform recent expansion into international markets across SEA and the UK.As the 2IC to our COO, I am responsible for:➡️ Defining where to play & how to win➡️ Pricing & packaging➡️ Assessing & prioritising expansion markets➡️ Deepening our undestanding of customer value drivers➡️ Building our competitor intelligence capability➡️ Establishing OKRs, strategic planning and execution➡️ Building our M&A pipeline

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Surry Hills, New South Wales, Au

Airtree’s Explorer program exists to cultivate the next generation of angel investors in Australia and New Zealand. They want to bring wider diversity and inclusion to an old-school industry and supercharge the support for brilliant founders from the earliest stages of their journey. Through the program, Explorers get access to world-class insights and education on the 101 of angel investing, the best angel network in the region, a sneak peek into Airtree’s internal Investment Committee meetings, and funds to invest. The outcome: By the end of the program, you’re a deep, critical thinker on early-stage startups and have the confidence to find and invest in your own deals.

Sydney, Au

The Australian Professional Leagues (APL) is a live action and digital sports entertainment business that operates, markets and commercialises the top tier professional domestic football competitions in Australia, known collectively as the A-Leagues.Since gaining independence from Football Australia in December 2020, the APL have embarked upon an ambitious strategy to drive engagement with men’s and women’s elite football, building on football’s undisputed position as the country’s most popular participation sport.The re-branded men’s and women’s competitions (brought under the A-Leagues brand to reflect football’s young, inclusive and forward-looking audience) are made up of the Isuzu UTE A-League Men, Liberty A-League Women, A-League Youth and the E-League. APL’s vision is to unite Australian football, establishing it as the most entertaining and popular sport by 2030.

Sydney, Au

Mountain View, Ca, Us

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.As a Product Strategy and Operations Manager, I help to set the focus, pace, and direction of our business and unite with teams to deliver on Google’s business opportunities by challenging and enabling our Media Sales Specialists organization.I support the Media Sales Specialist Director and their team in developing go-to-market product strategies, drive operational excellence around deployment processes, and enable sales capability development through training and tools. You will work across all areas of the Media Sales Specialist team to identify how we bring Google’s product suite to market including Performance, Display, Video, Deals, Creative, Insights and Analytics.The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Our team is analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

New York City, Us

Warner Bros Discovery re-energised Eurosport to connect fans and athletes around the sports they love. Eurosport digital continues to be a high growth area of the business, encompassing all of the direct to consumer platforms including the Eurosport Player, Eurosport.com and Eurosport's social media activities.As a strategy manager I was part of the ES Digital Strategy and Planning team, supporting the Senior Management team in developing and articulating the strategy of the Eurosport Digital business. I worked closely with all departments of the Eurosport and Eurosport digital organisation, including commercial, product, content and sales & marketing, rights acquisitions and JVs.I supported and lead a variety of digital strategy initiatives, including:- Business planning of digital development initiatives (rights acquisitions, investments, acquisitions and JVs)- Strategic planning for the Eurosport digital business- The ownership and development of relationships with global partners (including Amazon, PlayStation and Facebook)- Creative development of strategic pitches to internal & external stakeholders- Market and competitor analysis and action-able insight generation- Product Strategy definition- Business development and deal execution- Liaising with domestic and international stakeholders to creatively solve analytical problems using robust and real-time data- Building compelling presentations and narratives that deliver both key strategic insights and actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders and clients.

Dublin 2, Ie

As a consultant at Accenture, I applied business strategy development, value architecting and operating model design skills to make bold decisions on priority C-Suite issues at the intersection of business, technology and operations. Whilst working across a breadth of multinational clients I had the opportunity to:- Shape and lead strategic consulting engagements and project teams serving as a key interface and trusted advisor to our senior level clients- Define work-streams as part of strategic transformation programs and be responsible for rigorous data driven insights, to identify and validate value creation opportunities for our clients- Work within project teams to ideate, develop and design compelling business strategies and transformation solutions- Develop cohesive conclusions from detailed analysis and present innovative and action-oriented findings to our senior level clients- Coach and mentor junior members of the team with a people-first mindset- Elevate the Accenture brand and presence in the marketplace (e.g. conference participation, thought leadership, offering development, acquiring future talent)

A-Levels

Master Of International Business (Mib), International Business

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History