Job Description

Position Overview:

Ruder Finn seeks to recruit an experienced, dynamic, innovative and service oriented professional for the position of Deputy General Manager of RF Thunder Singapore.

The selected candidate will be a crucial part of the Asia Pacific executive management team of Ruder Finn - reporting directly the head of Asia for RF Thunder’s operation. The position will be based in Singapore and the selected candidate is expected to work closely with more than 20+ offices and affiliates of Ruder Finn across the region.

Specific duties of RF Thunder Singapore:

• Launch and establish RF Thunder in Singapore.
• Be responsible for the overall P&L of RF Thunder Singapore, building a healthy organization balancing profit and sustainable development.
• Lead a constructive and “family business culture”, building RF Thunder Singapore into an integrated, innovative, and client-oriented communications agency preferred by professionals and clients.
• Recruit and build a strong and growing team. Boost staff learning and development to embrace new-age communications.
  

• Over 15 years communications agency experience in leading PR agencies. A solid PR professional and an outstanding people and business manager, with track record in retention teams and growing agency portfolios.
• Asia Pacific regional experiences – understand and respect local cultures.
• A strategic thinker who is genuinely curious about communications and management, in both today and tomorrow’s business world.
• A high degree of comfort with numbers and in-depth communications metrics. Your strategic recommendations are based on a deep understanding of business.
• Keen in new media and new technology and how it can be brought to bear on delivering insightful ideas and communications that will move the client’s business.
• Good presentation skills and the ability to influence senior management both internal and external.
• A mentor and a team player, ready to support and guide, not micromanage. Understand when and how to delegate. Always ready to grow the young generation.