General Manager - Media

About the Role Accenture Song is looking for an experienced General Manager - Media to join our Sydney leadership team. This newly created role reflects the continued growth and ambition of our media capability and offers the opportunity to play a key role in shaping its future. As a senior leader, you will work across commercial growth, people leadership, client management, and media investment operations. Reporting to the Head of Investment, Operations and Technology, Media ANZ, you will help drive business performance, strengthen client partnerships, foster a high-performing culture, and identify opportunities for future growth across the Accenture Song ecosystem. This role is ideal for a commercially minded media leader who can balance strategic thinking with operational excellence while inspiring teams, clients, and stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Commercial Leadership & Growth Drive the Sydney media business plan and support long-term business growth. Manage client profitability and commercial outcomes across the Sydney portfolio. Identify and pursue new business opportunities and revenue streams. Partner across Accenture Song to unlock integrated client opportunities. Contribute to agency marketing initiatives and market positioning. People Leadership & Culture Champion a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative culture. Lead employee engagement, development, and retention initiatives. Support career development and succession planning across the Sydney team. Coach and mentor leaders to strengthen capability and performance. Senior Client Leadership Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders. Provide strategic oversight across key client portfolios. Lead executive-level client engagement and industry events. Support teams in delivering exceptional commercial and client outcomes. Media Investment & Operational Excellence Ensure best-practice investment standards, governance, and processes. Partner with investment leaders to optimise media performance and operations. Support resource planning, workflow management, and partner engagement. Drive innovation while maintaining commercial discipline and operational rigour. Qualifications 10+ years' experience in media, marketing, advertising, or consulting environments. Demonstrated experience leading large teams, business units, or client portfolios. Strong commercial acumen with experience managing profitability and growth. Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior executives and stakeholders. Experience driving new business, developing revenue opportunities, and leading pitches. Strong leadership capability with a passion for developing people and culture. Deep understanding of media planning, investment, partnerships, and the evolving media landscape. Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills. Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments while balancing competing priorities. Benefits of Working with Accenture At Accenture, you'll work with leading brands, talented colleagues, and industry-leading technology to create meaningful impact for clients and communities. We offer: Flexible and hybrid ways of working Industry-leading learning and development opportunities Access to global experts and cutting-edge capabilities Career growth across Accenture's diverse businesses and industries Inclusive, innovative, and collaborative culture Comprehensive wellbeing, leave, and rewards programs About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia: At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry. We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000 . 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