Nikki Warburton – Chief Customer and Marketing Officer, Audi

Nikki has over 20 years’ experience in Senior Executive roles with a strong track record of delivering tangible business results across a range of industries from automotive, advertising to subscription TV. Nikki is currently CCMO at Audi and an Executive Patron on the Taronga Zoo Foundation.

Nikki has been at AUDI for just over 2 years and is the Chief Customer and Marketing Officer responsible for Marketing, Product, Digital, Corporate Communications and the Customer Operations Centre. In this time she built a high performing team who have collectively contributed to delivering strong brand health results and business growth in challenging times.

In her 11 years at AUSTAR she was part of the Executive team that took AUSTAR from a challenged business to a brand and business worth over $2B. This included building the customer base to over 750,000 customers. Whilst in this role her team was awarded with 8 ASTRA awards for most effective and outstanding consumer campaigns to drive sales, retention and community connection.

In addition to her achievements the most important attribute of Nikki’s success is that the roles have been growth based with a direct correlation between strategy, execution and sales. In each role, Nikki has been instrumental in defining and building brands, designing a customer centric product or service, managing customer and advertising communication and shaping culture.

Nikki is extremely passionate about building high performance teams and developing talent and is involved in a number of key mentoring programs.

Yes Nikki does have a life outside work she is a married with 2 active boys and a border collie. Nikki enjoys staying fit and healthy and loves running. Nikki completed her first Ultra marathon last year.

Nikki Warburton

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