Marketing and communications job ads were up 23 per cent in February from January 2021, according to the latest SEEK Employment report. It was the biggest rise across all the sectors, including trades, accounting, engineering and ICT.

LG Electronics Australia has appointed Gemma Lemieux as its marketing director.

Julie Batch has been appointed chief strategy and innovation officer of IAG, following her successful tenure as chief customer officer.

Desygner has a new CMO.

After an amazing tenure at Norman Disney and Young, repeat CMO50 alumni, Ric Navarro, has accepted a new role as vice president of marketing and business development at Nucleus Network.

The former head of marketing and products at Nib’s Australian Residents Health Insurance (Arhi), Ed Close, has been appointed group executive of Nib effective 1 January 2020.

​Janus Henderson Investors has appointed Heather Gyton Carroll as head of marketing Australia.

​CMO50 2019’s #15, Jayne Andrews, has announced she is taking up a global position with Carnival Cruise Line in the US.

​Asus has appointed a new head of marketing. Former head of marketing at Hills, Farzeen Quadir-Hegde, has taken on the role for the systems business group.

Uber's director of marketing APAC and #8 on the CMO50 2018 list, Steve Brennen, is departing after nearly three years with the business. Lucinda Barlow has been added to the Uber marketing team as senior director of marketing APAC.

​The need to move toward matrix, cross-functional, or hybrid structures to better enable collaboration and a customer-focused approach is driving 54 per cent of Australian employers to restructure their department or organisation.

​​CMO50’s 2017 third place winner, Stephanie Tully​, has been promoted to the role of chief customer officer within Qantas.

​Impact, a partnership automation company, has appointed its first APAC marketing director, Ayaan Mohamud.

Alastair Symington has been appointed Blackmores’ new CEO and managing director, effective 1 October 2019.

Andrew Egan has been appointed as general manager marketing for Viva Energy Australia.

After only nine months at APN Outdoor, Charlotte Valente has been appointed GM for the B2B division of the Big Red Group (BRG).

​Aussie has brought on a new head of marketing, Sascha Hunt, who joins fresh from her role as group general manager of marketing at Allianz.

​Greg Segal has been appointed ​president of brand and marketing partnerships for Australia and New Zealand at Live Nation.

​Fitness Australia’s former general manager of marketing, Christy Collier, has joined the Deakin Melbourne Boomers as its new general manager.

After 12 years at Lenovo, CMO50 2018# 5, Nick Reynolds, has taken a role as vice president and global CMO for Johnson Controls – Hitachi air conditioning.

Susan Coghill has been appointed the new CMO of Tourism Australia, replacing Lisa Ronson who left the organisation in March.