In 1993 Sandra won a Post Graduate placement at Grey Melbourne, where she was involved with a groundbreaking campaign for the Transport Accident Commission. She left to hone her writing skills and fell into Direct Marketing along the way, settling in 2000 at M&C Saatchi Melbourne, where she won numerous local and international awards for ANZ Bank, including a Gold Direct Lion at Cannes in 2003. Having spent some time at Young & Rubicam, before it merged to become George Patterson Y&R, Sandra rejoined M&C Saatchi in 2008 as Creative Group Head, Direct.