Your hub for hybrid Marketing Talent
Jumpstart Collective specialises in connecting businesses like yours with elite marketing talent and agencies. Through us, you can access top-tier marketing expertise tailored to your specific needs and budgets.
Marketing Talent On Demand
- Local expertise, deep market insights.
- Remote, or hybrid arrangements.
- Fixed monthly fee, minimum 1 day p/w.
- 3 Distinctive marketing roles available.
Looking to hire a local Marketing Specialist but unsure where to start? Whether you need part-time or full-time talent, our flexible arrangements cater to your specific needs. Choose from hybrid setups, combining in-house and remote work, or opt for a fully remote option. With a minimum commitment of three months, our fixed monthly fees ensure cost-effectiveness, starting from $2,800 and ranging up to $4,100, depending on expertise.
Selecting from distinctive marketing roles, you can benefit from our Content Marketing Manager, Digital Marketing Manager, or Marketing Director positions. Each role carries responsibilities aligned with modern marketing demands, from content strategy development and execution to digital campaign leadership and overall marketing direction.
Content Marketing Manager
Explore our Content Marketing Manager role, where we tailor content strategies, create engaging digital material, and ensure brand consistency. We handle SEO optimisation, analyse performance metrics, and collaborate seamlessly across teams to align content with your marketing objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute comprehensive content strategies.
- Produce engaging content across digital channels.
- Create and maintain content calendars.
- Optimise content for search engines.
- Analyse content performance metrics.
- Maintain brand voice and messaging consistency.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing teams.
- Promote and distribute content effectively.
Your Investment:
- Starting from 1 day per week.
- Minimum commitment of 3 months.
- Starting from $2,800 +gst per month.
Digital Marketing Manager
The Digital Marketing Manager role is designed to elevate your online brand presence. This includes leading dynamic campaigns across channels, aligning Sales and Marketing departments for cohesive strategies, and optimizing tactics for superior results. With a keen eye on industry trends, your digital marketing efforts stay ahead of the curve.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute comprehensive digital marketing strategies.
- Aligning Sales and Marketing departments to ensure cohesive strategies and messaging across the organization.
- Lead and manage digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels.
- Oversee a team of digital marketers, providing guidance and direction.
- Analyse campaign performance metrics and optimise strategies for better results.
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in digital marketing.
Your Investment:
- Starting from 1 day per week.
- Minimum commitment of 3 months.
- Starting from $3,800 +gst per month.
Marketing Director
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the development and implementation of comprehensive digital marketing strategies.
- Lead and mentor digital marketing team members, providing guidance and support.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align marketing efforts with overall business objectives.
- Analyze market trends and customer insights to identify opportunities for growth and optimization.
- Manage digital marketing budgets and allocate resources effectively to maximize ROI.
- Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
Your Investment:
- Starting from 1 day per week.
- Minimum commitment of 3 months.
- Starting from $4,100 +gst per month.
The Jumpstart Team
Martin Platenkamp
Marketing, Sales, Digital Automation
Available for Digital Marketing Manager and Marketing Director roles
I’m an experienced Marketing Executive driving digital strategy, executing business transformations, and building partner relations across various B2B industries. I’ve collaborated with and worked for renowned agencies and iconic brands such as AKQA, PepsiCo, Apple, Google, and ING Australia. My career goal is to help businesses advance their strategic leadership, operational efficiency, and revenue growth in marketing and sales.
Over the past 2 decades, I’ve helped clients and businesses through coaching, workshops, marketing development programs and gamification. Organisations are using these tools to build and grow learning management systems [LMS], automated EDM funnels and interactive quizzes, marketing assessments, and marketing solutions to segment their audience into niche audiences via a tailored buying experiences.
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Alicent Wong
integrated marketing communications and entrepreneurship
Available for Marketing workshops and Coaching
With a unique career encompassing 20 years in integrated marketing communications and entrepreneurship, I thrive on taking on new challenges with a passion and drive for creativity.
Having worked with some of the world’s largest advertising agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather, and most recognised brands such as Microsoft, Apple, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Tourism Queensland, Hoyts, American Express, I have developed exceptional skills in identifying challenges and partnering with leadership and peers to deliver smart and effective marketing solutions.
At Jumpstart Collective, I bring my years of experience in from both agency and client side to help business owners, CMOs and Marketing Directors make an informed decision when it comes to outsourcing their marketing. I provide them with the tools and guide them through the process of hiring so they get the best out of their agencies or VAs to build a mutually beneficial and amazing partnership.
Paul Fairhead
Strategy and Innovation | Desirable Futures
Spanning 30 years, my commercial experience includes strategic, entrepreneurial and leadership roles in commercial, retail, government and arts sectors. Creating and driving new businesses across Australia and South East Asia I approach problems and opportunities with a keen eye for pathways to new markets. I have a generative and authentic approach to leadership, lifting people and supporting them to be exceptional.
Robert Linsdell
Technology leader and Managing Director ANZ at Vertiv Co
Robert is a technology leader with a diverse background in multiple sectors, including telecoms, critical infrastructure, datacentre, IoT, electronic materials, chemicals and coatings. He is a thought leader in the field of core to edge datacentres, linking the influence of customer experience CX with technology.
Robert has core competences in the areas of complex problem resolution, new market identification and penetration, strategic planning and implementation, major restructure and footprint alignment. He has strong people management skills with an ability to train and educate staff in stressful change situations. Where appropriate, he has used TQM and 6 Sigma to support change initiatives, implemented full Oracle, SAP and CA ERP business systems replacing legacy accounting or financial processes.
Jennifer Arnold
marketing, sales, communications and customer experience
With more than 25 years of global and Asia Pacific-wide experience in marketing, sales, communications and customer experience, my professional passion is helping organisations optimise how they engage with customers and key stakeholders through every stage of the customer journey.
Having worked for leading global companies such as SAP, IBM, Unisys, Squiz, QBE Insurance and Ogilvy PR, I’ve had the opportunity to drive large-scale demand gen and thought leadership programs, Go-To-Market development, product launches, stakeholder engagement initiatives, and CX improvement programs.
At Jumpstart Collective I use my skills to help business owners and marketing professionals develop end-to-end Voice of Customer programs, build and manage Customer/Partner Advisory Boards and User Communities, and create compelling responses to major tenders.
Erin Searle
Founder & Managing Director at WhaiFlow
Erin is the Founder and Managing Director of WhaiFlow, a professional development enterprise that specialises in training entrepreneurs, executives and leaders to leverage the power of flow states and accelerate their impact.
Prior to founding WhaiFlow, Erin enjoyed a decade-long career in environmental and community engagement consulting. During this time, Erin consistently experimented with peak performance, flow states and innovation coaching methodologies to learn what it takes for individuals and teams to achieve truly extraordinary results. Erin now works with clients who are passionate about accelerating business growth to maximise their positive impact in society and on the planet.
By learning how to master and leverage flow states, Erin’s clients build their personal capacity for sustainable growth, greater long term impact, fulfillment and success.
Mike Read
Founder & Director at PigsCanFlyToo
Mike has enjoyed an international career in the communication industry, operating in senior consumer marketing, advertising, innovation and people & culture roles. This diverse background has seen him build a reputation in and with some of the world’s leading organisations as a brand champion – of organisations and their products, services and people as ‘brands’.
30 years of real-world business experience working in multi-nationals (GSK, Leo Burnett, Mars, NewsCorp, Grey Worldwide), entrepreneurial start-ups (Brand Genetics, High Performance People) and as a sole trader, allows him to quickly connect to and empathise with the unique human and commercial challenges & opportunities that each client faces.
Project briefs have included co-creating business strategies, building high performance teams, developing leadership capability, coaching senior executives, designing and facilitating learning programmes, pitching to win and innovation / problem solving opportunities.
Luke Kerr
Director and Founder of Real Time Learning Australia
Real Time Learning’s (RTL’s) purpose is to support schools in expanding their capacity to deliver stimulating, enriching, and future-focused STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) learning experiences by establishing significant partnerships with industry and the tertiary sector. The need for a paradigm shift in education is well documented. RTL is in pursuit of the “How” in education. Our community is always learning (learning in “real time”). We are passionate about innovation.
To be innovative requires one to be courageous about setting out on a journey that embraces some uncertainty. Our work is made possible through collaboration with Industry, Tertiary and K to 12 sectors. Middle year students from Government, Catholic and Independent Schools participate in our programs. We’ve been running STEM tinkering workshops out of BOSCH’s Head Office since 2017. Students from over 30 different schools have participated in these workshops.
Scott Richardson FCPA GAICD
Managing Director and CFO
Strategic CFO provides expert CFO services to organisations of all sizes. The key and unique service proposition is providing CFO services to businesses that recognise they need the skillset of a large corporate CFO but do not want to pay for that on a full-time basis. In turn we provide very high level CFO’s on a part-time, interim or project basis.
Effectively this means your business can obtain the services of a highly experienced CFO for a fraction of the full-time cost. For growing businesses this means we can grow with you and importantly your business gets the expertise much earlier that you could traditionally when you would have to wait until you were big enough to employ a real CFO.
We have a number of very experienced CFO’s on our books with a large variety of experience ready to assist you in your business. Areas of Expertise:
Forecasting & Budgets – Business Strategy & Planning – Contracts and Commercial Management – Cash Flow Management and Solutions – M&A & Debt Restructuring – Financial Reporting – Project Management – Business Development – Risk Management – Financial Management – Capital Raising & Investor Relations – Leadership & Management – Business Intelligence
Iain McDonald
Founder / Advisor / Investor. Disruptive technology and creative startups
Iain has been a digital and creative pioneer for over 25 years. He is the Founder of Antimatter working externally with startups teams and large brands. The core focus is innovation, invention, investment, strategy, funding, culture.
His manifesto is:
1) …be disruptive. 2) …be successful. 3) …do good.
Frank Oerlemans
marketing, digital capabilities and digital transformation
Frank is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in marketing and digital across multiple geographies, including a tenure of more than 12 years in a global executive role at Randstad HQ.
He guided the growth of Randstad’s 38 operating companies in marketing, digital capabilities and digital transformation. He successfully co-developed Randstad’s global Human Forward brand positioning, the first rebrand in over a decade for the company which moved the Randstad brand to match the company’s strategic focus on empowering people through technology.
At Jumpstart Collective, he brings years of digital experience to help business owners, CMOs and Marketing Directors make an informed decision when it comes to their marketing strategies and implementation.
Art Keyner
humanised technology solutions
Always on the hunt for new and innovative ways to enhance existing and develop new business, Art is said to possess an inventive and ingenious approach to offering humanised technology solutions. He is considered a specialist in aligning business with people and technology across all areas of industry.
Art held senior positions with major professional services organisations in Australia and abroad including Modis, DXC, Campbell Page and Publicis Groupe. His most recent corporate role was as Director with Experis Australia. He left the global corporate environment in 2019 and is now Founding Partner with Ava Douglas Advisory and Managing Partner Technology with Appoint.
At Jumpstart Collective, Art brings years of experience to help business owners, executives and senior managers developing and accelerating not only their own, but also their team’s careers. He also offers insights in the humanised application of automated technologies.
Alexander Faber
Technology, Strategy, Innovation (product, experience design, R&D) and Operations
Alex helps companies solve management challenges, particularly those involving Technology, Strategy, Innovation (product, experience design, R&D) and Operations.
He’s had 4 years of professional services experience at the Big4, an analytical engineering background and an open mind to help engage diverse stakeholders for fast and effective co-creation.
His experience spans into Retail, FMCG, Government, Defense, Digital, Media, Telecom, Transport, Automotive, Aviation, Education, Health, Agriculture, Energy, and Resources.
As an example, in 2019-2020, he took on a leadership role in the Sydney office of a Fast-50 boutique consultancy where he worked with numerous organisations far exceeding 10,000 employees – one with 800+ AU locations – to identify operational improvement opportunities. The potential benefits for two clients were over $20 million.
Mattijs Willenborg
Executive Coach & Business Consultant
Bringing experience from across four continents to the table, Mattijs has a wealth of sales, change and general management as well as cross-cultural experience and expertise under his belt. With 12 years of global experience at market leading businesses & brand in B2B, technology driven industries, he knows how to get & keep market leaders leading.
He has pivoted businesses from technological to customer-focused whilst maintaining technical industry leadership. He has transformed businesses with years of negative returns and put them on a path of profitable growth. He has integrated and aligned teams of different cultures, established ownership & accountability and a winning culture and pride throughout organisations.
Bert Van Der Velde
CEO - Non-Executive Director - CFO - Consultant - Executive Coach
Interested in opportunities where I can support organisations to start, grow or turnaround their business or to advise and coach individuals who need a critical and incisive discussion partner. I have a proven ability to add substantial value as a Non-Executive Director and CEO by applying 26 years experience in Australia, Europe and Asia in senior executive roles in the retail, B2B, technology and manufacturing sectors.
Demonstrated track record of contribution in international markets, particularly in business development, acquisitions, performance turnaround, process-optimisation, market and profit growth. I am an effective board executive and chairman who works closely with supervisory boards and advisory committees with a thorough understanding of business challenges and extensive skills in strategy development, coaching, mentoring, communication, influencing and relationship management.
Anna Levchenko
Mentor, PhD, Senior Lecturer SCM, Statistics, Business planning
With over 8 years of experience in tutoring, lecturing and research positions, Anna brings superior expertise and excellence to the table in the fields of innovation, supply chain management, project management, operations management, and business planning.
Tony Overall
Principal Food Retail Consultant and Coach
Tony’s one truth is that he has dedicated himself to becoming an expert in one thing. It just so happens that one thing is the big thing! Food Puzzle’s total focus is to increase Net Profit and business yield. This is very different to increasing revenue, it is about delivering “profit contribution”. He has refined a skill set, tool box and committed approach that has significant impacts on businesses and delivers improved profit outcomes always.
Justin Pooni
T-shaped Marketing Leader & Communications Specialist
Justin is a T-shaped marketing leader, communications specialist and branding expert with nearly 15 years under his belt – the last 7 of which within financial services (global markets) and mainly with ASIC & FCA regulated securities & derivatives brokers.
He offers end-to-end management of ROI-led acquisition campaigns to drive revenue and weave carefully crafted brand narratives to strategically position the brand in the marketplace where it can realise long term sustained growth and success.
Kaush Agalakumbura
Leadership, Business Mentor & Consultant/VET Leadership Business Trainer & Assessor
Kaush is an enthusiastic Business Mentor and a well-regarded and VET trainer and Assessor, effectively leveraging over 15 years of experience in Brand Marketing & Retail Market platforms.
He has first hand industry experience at Unilever in both local and multinational markets delivering consumer insights into training needs, course design and performances. Kaush has a proven ability to lead and motivate teams, capture lessons learned and share knowledge with stakeholders. He is an accomplished training professional, experienced in planning and managing individualised training programs.
Having a proven ability to deliver results across multiple sites and mediums Kaush advocates a focus on integrated approaches for results while seeking to communicate powerfully via organizational core values practices and processes.
Christian Pattman
Brand Marketing Consultant
Christian is a marketing leader with a proven track record of building successful brands and teams around the world. This is predominantly driven by the belief that the right people and culture best deliver innovative ideas to drive growth.
He is a passionate believer that integrated creative communications change consumer behaviour to drive brand growth and is a respected team leader who builds trust with CEOs and the C-suite.
Klaas Raaijmakers
Head of Product, Chief Product Officer, Champion of Product Led Growth
Product is my thing, I have had the opportunity to lead awesome teams and products across a range of digital services, this includes:
– Launching new products that disrupted markets and achieved exponential growth
– Successfully growing and managing product portfolios with ARR of $250M+
– Leading complex strategy & product led change programs
– Managing & building high-performance teams (my #1 goal in every venture)
… and generally trying to ship products & features users love to use.
I keep my Friday mornings free to connect with product people.
– Are you looking to make the move into product management?
– Are you an experienced product manager eyeing that next level head of product role?
– Or do you have suggestions how we can make the Stan product better?
Mike Goldman
EVENTS MASTER OF CEREMONIES, TV Host, Voiceover Artist, Actor
Mike is Jumpstart’s Master of Ceremonies for the Powerhouse Connexion event series. These c-suite events connect strategic innovative masterminds to analyse, calculate and overcome the business and/or work-life balance challenges we all face today.
Besides being the TV host for Big Brother, Mike is the host of “On The Mike”, a weekly chat show. He was also the 2018 Commonwealth Games Presenter, Voice of Australia’s biggest sporting retailer Rebel Sport, Voice of Bear Grylls new series on Discovery networks, National Geographic series Australias Arid Heart, Power and The Great Dividing Range.
You may even see Mike hosting in front of screaming fans at Sydney Kings basketball home games or hosting one of many charity events he is involved with.
Peter McGuire
Business Mentor
Peter has over 38 years experience as the CEO/owner of KLEN International, a manufacturer of industrial chemicals to food, beverage and industrial chemicals industries.
At the time of sale, Peter had close to 70 people under his management. His major area of activity was in international sales of fire assay fluxes to the world market which resulted in KLEN being the largest manufacturer of fire assay flux in the world, supplying to over 60 countries.
Peter currently mentors a group of 8 young entrepreneurs in widely differing fields sharing his experience and knowledge in their quest for achieving personal and business goals.
