Former 303 MullenLowe media business director Lucy Belbin appointed by Nine Perth as Group Strategy & Partnerships Manager

Nine has announced the appointment of Lucy Belbin (pictured) to the role of Group Strategy and Partnerships Manager within the Nine Perth sales team in a maternity cover. She will take the reins from Claire Dewhurst, who is heading off on maternity leave from February 2017.

Kate McMahon, Nine’s Director of Sales said “As we farewell Claire after a very successful two years in the role, we are thrilled to welcome Lucy to the team. Lucy’s extensive experience across both media and creative agencies, with a focus on client strategy, makes her the perfect fit to drive our partnerships solution in this market”.

“Claire has done an outstanding job at building key client partnerships, and I am excited for Lucy to take these to a new level in 2017 as we continue to put our clients first when looking at solutions spanning broadcast, digital and content creation”.

Belbin said: “I am really excited about joining Nine Perth alongside Kate and the sales management team. They are especially hard working and always strive to deliver the best results for clients. Come January, I am looking forward to working collaboratively with both media agencies and clients in a new capacity, to deliver market leading content and communications solutions tapping into the extensive broadcast, digital and production assets Nine has to offer”.

Belbin has had 12-year career in agency media. She departed 303 MullenLowe in June and is currently travelling in Europe. She commences with Nine on January 9 next year.

Another of the agency’s senior media managers, Warwick Kingston recently departed to join Media Tonic.