Your Future in Sales & Marketing

Send us Fan Mail In this week's Mini Pod, you'll hear quick-fire career insights from inspiring and honest Head of Marketing Communicatons with Cartology, Jane King.  Stay tuned for the FULL PODCAST with Jade Lish which will be live next Thursday at 9am!

Send us Fan Mail In this week's Mini Pod, you'll hear quick-fire career insights from the cheeky and hilarious Head of Marketing for v2 Food, Jade Lish.  Stay tuned for the FULL PODCAST with Jane King which will be live next Thursday at 9am!

Send us Fan Mail From semi-conductors to sundried tomatoes. It's safe to say that Mimmo Lubrano's career has been unique. Along the way, he has made mistakes and learned tough (and expensive) lessons, but has also built a career full of love, family, freedom, and endless passion. In this engaging Episode, Mimmo's infectious energy shines through, and really makes you think about you...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's Mini Pod, you'll hear quick-fire career insights from the passionate & dynamic Director of Sandhurst Fine Foods, Mimmo Lubrano. Stay tuned for the FULL PODCAST which will be live next Thursday at 9am!

Send us Fan Mail Are you Category Curious? What is Category, and what does a career in this space look like? We gave Mike Dickson a little break and our very own Category expert Andrew Cannock took the reins, speaking with a star-studded line-up of specialists in this field: Angela Craven , Head of Category & Shopper, George Western Foods Chris McKay , Head of Category Development, Reckitt Kat...

Send us Fan Mail 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞?! Today's Pod features an open & honest chat with 𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝟐 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 (FMCG plant-based meat alternative business), about taking risks, leaning into and learning from challenges, and having fun in your career.  Listen to the words of wisdom that Tim lives by to get through challenging times, and the sliding door...

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy our new mini pod, an intro to our next on the Your Future in Sales and Marketing Podcast. In only a few minutes, you'll find out what makes them tick and gain an insight in what's to come.   This week on Your Future in Sales and Marketing, we have CEO of V2 Food, Tim York,    Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with HR superstars Karen Coyle of William Grant & Sons and Nellie Tierney of Campari.  In this HR special you'll hear our guests insight across a breadth of combined industries. You will learn their experience within HR, including their opportunities and how it functions within the business, specifically in terms of leadership.  Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy our new mini pod, an intro to our next on the Your Future in Sales and Marketing Podcast. In only a few minutes, you'll find out what makes them tick and gain an insight in what's to come.   This week on Your Future in Sales and Marketing, we have one of our first HR guests, Karen Coyle of William Grant & Sons.    Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy our new mini pod, an intro to our next on the Your Future in Sales and Marketing Podcast. In only a few minutes, you'll find out what makes them tick and gain an insight in what's to come.   This week on Your Future in Sales and Marketing, we have our first double interviews and HR guests Nellie Tierney, HR Director of Campari.    Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with Marketing Director at William Grant & Sons, Jonathan Sully. Jonathan is one of Australia's best known marketing leaders. Throughout this episode, Mike will un-pick his career journey across a range of diverse marketing functions from Hasbro to WWE.  With a career that broad, there's plenty of advice to unpack.  Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy our new mini pod, an intro to our next on the Your Future in Sales and Marketing Podcast. In only a few minutes, you'll find out what makes them tick and gain an insight in what's to come.    This week on Your Future in Sales and Marketing, we have one of Australia's best known marketing leaders, Jonathan Sully, current Marketing Director of William Grant and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with Head of Marketing at Baiada, Yash Gandhi. Yash is a regular in Australia's Top 50 CMO's. His career spans great breadth of knowledge across FMCG both client and agency side. Throughout this episode you will learn from an industry expert on how he has progressed throughout his career, with some interesting moves along the way. Don&...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with Head of Category at Kelloggs, Kate Bean.  Kate is one of our first category experts, and she comes with a great breadth of knowledge. Her career spans great experience within FMCG. Throughout this episode you will hear Kate's insight and advice into the world of category where she explains the importance of gaining breadth throughout y...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with current Sales Director of Mutti, Daniela Stapleton. Throughout this episode, you will understand Daniela's career movements, milestones and key takeaways from her impressive career so far within FMCG. Having worked for Unilever, Cerebos, Pernod Ricard and now Mutti, Daniela has gained some great insights into what it takes to succeed w...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with Founder and Managing Director of Drinx Factory, Ariah Michel.  Ariah is our youngest guest we have interviewed on the podcast so far, and although he may be at the early stages of his career in terms of time, he is not waiting to make things happen. Ariah has already gained heaps of experience within the liquor industry, working in sales pr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with Commercial Director of FMCG Analytics Paul Bull. Paul is a well experienced FMCG superstar who has recently helped head up FMCG Analytics. FMCG Analytics is a specialist revenue management business, set up to help clients optimise growth through a combination of revenue growth management and cloud based tools. This, alongside Paul's ex...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Mike chats with Susan Catania, Business Executive Officer at Nestle, on how you create a path towards the top of a Tier 1 FMCG. Throughout this episode, Susan reflects on her 19 year long career at Nestle providing insightful advice on how she progressed throughout her career. Her authentic leadership approach and strong commercial expertise can be recognised throu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Mike chats with Tyler Martin, the previous Olympian, now entrepreneur who is cracking open FMCG. Throughout this episode, Tyler talks us through all 3 of his start-up businesses, where he found his inspiration, his learnings along the way and some crucial advice on how to succeed as an FMCG entrepreneur. Don't miss it!

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Mike chats with Katie Steele, an experienced retail professional who has achieved success at companies such as Dyson, Dan Murphy's, Diageo, and Asda.  Throughout this episode, Katie explains the role of a sales director in detail and what is takes to become one. It's filled with useful info and advice for all listeners.  Don't miss it!

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike chats with Sales Director of Obela, Claire Wait. Claire is a growth-minded commercial sales leader with experience driving revenue and profit growth across a variety of FMCG categories, customers and channels. Throughout the podcast Claire reflects on her career journey, what's led to some of her career decisions and gives some insightful advice for all...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with fellow Sales, Marketing and Category recruitment consultant, Andrew Cannock, dissecting the newly re-launched [axr] Recruitment and Search 2023 Salary Guides.  Here they discuss renumeration, trends in roles and what makes our Salary Guides the best in the business. Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with Sue Temple, a global superstar of retail, FMCG, category, insights, shopper and loyalty. We chart Sue's career to her current role as ANZ General Manager of L-Founders of Loyalty, and learn her career mantra; ABC - ability, breaks and courage.  Enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with Chris Walker, Pacific Sales Director at Hasbro.  In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with Chris Walker, Pacific Sales Director at Hasbro. Chris is a Sales Director with his roots in retail and a career path that has seen him move half way around the world to lead some of Sydney's highest profile consumer brands in market. He highlights...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Mike Dickson chats with one of our newest recruitment consultants, Andrew Cannock, on their predictions for the 2023 FMCG consumer sales, marketing and category job market. Andrew joins us from a strong sales and category career, however most recently making the move from internal recruitment at George Weston Foods to join us here at [axr]. Mike and Andrew chat ab...