CHE Proximity Sydney managing director Vanessa Nicol departs agency after 15 months in the role
CHE Proximity has confirmed that Sydney managing director Vanessa Nicol has been made redundant in a move to protect the jobs of the wider agency.
Nicol joined CHEP at the beginning of last year from Clemenger Group in Auckland where she spent over two and half years. Nicol has previously held roles at OMD and M&C Saatchi and client side with Virgin and Optus.
Says Chris Howatson, CEO, CHE Proximity: “We made the difficult decision to make the managing director roles across CHEP redundant. Unfortunately Vanessa Nicol, who has been a key part of our family, team and business was part of that decision, and a person who was due to start in the coming months in our Melbourne hub is being delayed to Jan 2021. It was a terribly tough decision, and one not reflective on individual performance, but made to protect the jobs of the wider agency as we best manage the changes in our client businesses.
“The role of the MD position will managed by myself with the support of the wider CHEP management group as we continue to support our clients with whatever they need to maintain their businesses throughout this time. We anticipate restoring the roles in 2021. As always, we support anyone who leaves our business in the most generous and caring ways possible.”
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We should all suffer a little, to stop someone from suffering a lot.
I feel for Vanessa, and others that are going through redundancies at this moment.
Yes what happened to reduced working hours, voluntary leave and all the lovely things that happened around ’08 / ’09?
Seems we have all forgotten too soon.
A company that makes/has made as much money as CHE does, not have enough in the coffers to weather this, at this early stage, without laying people off?
Solid and honest response from Chris, with a nice touch of humanity. Thank you.
Who?
Agencies are so brutal. When things are going well they promote ‘culture’ As soon as times change, there’s no culture.
It’s only the start, wait 3 months before all hell breaks loose.
All hell is breaking loose. After travel and tourism, we’re next.
Service industries that at the moment service no economic activity.
This is going to be a shakeout like never before.
A major holding group will fall over, and if you’re a medium-sized agency 15 – 70 people, might as well shut the doors now and save some cash.
May’s salaries will eat everything you have.
The top tier have lined their pockets for decades.
This is shit
Great person, inspiring colleague and general champion. She’ll be missed.
Vanessa is a star, once things settle and bounce back another agency will benefit from CHE’s thriftiness, and be lucky to have a leader, advocate for the work and bloody nice human driving their business forward.
It’s tough out there at the moment, and this is only the start…
Does Vanessa have any contact details?
Didn’t they just hire 100 ppl for Samsung?
Perhaps outside of M&C, Chep must have brought the most coin in during the last 12 months
CHEP were the first agency in Australia to make a raft of people redundant – many more than what’s in this press release – and then happily announced to us all how much money they had in the bank.
Don’t believe the hype or the case studies.
What an opportunity to get some good pro active work done
Another day, another raft of redundancies.
Surely an agency of this size could have found other solutions? Reduced hours, reduced pay, etc??
30+ more made redundant today. 15% pay cuts across the board.
https://didtheyhelp.com/
No CHE didn’t.
Hey Legends!!!
Make sure you’re using the right job number when commenting.
Management isn’t taking a pay cut. They are reducing their share payout. That isn’t a pay cut.
CHEP, I don’t feel so good…I don’t know what’s happening…I don’t wanna go sir, please..
How considerate of the top levels to take a 15% pay cut on their 500k+ salaries, while expecting juniors to take a 15% cut on their 50k salaries. We’re all in this together after all!
They win the biggest account in Clem’s history worth millions, then promptly ditch 40+ people the moment it gets tough. Thanks for your service guys, good luck getting another job for an extended period of time! Pathetic.