Jill Manester
Head of Strategy, Melbourne & Sydney
Office
- Melbourne
- Sydney
Jill is a multi-disciplinary strategist with experience across brand, CX, innovation and marketing strategy. She has co-designed a best-selling furniture range for Snooze, integrated financial wellbeing across ANZ bank, resulting in the ANZ Plus mobile banking prototypes, and supported Lexus in the transition from sales to subscriber model.
Her global brand experience includes Lexus, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Pernod Ricard and British Airways. In Australia she has worked closely with ANZ Bank, Treasury Wine Estates, Chobani, Medibank and now the Australian Defence Force. Her work has been recognised by Cannes (Gold Lion, TV Film), Effies Australia and Marketing Week.
Having started her career in London at Saatchi & Saatchi, Jill settled in Australia in 2006 and lives in St Kilda, Melbourne with her family. She joined VML in 2022.