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About the Role

The Senior Client Director is a senior leadership role focused on directing and delivering major, complex brand projects independently. The core focus is centered on strategic client partnership, commercial growth, and inspirational team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor and champion high creative standards.
• Accountable management of client portfolios and new business conversion.
• Mentor a high-performing, multi-disciplinary team to deliver exceptional work efficiently.
• Oversee and drive large-scale, global branding projects with momentum, efficiency, and a hands-on approach when required.
• Manage complex internal and external stakeholder expectations effectively.

Requirements

• Exceptional communication, listening, and negotiation skills, with the credibility to advise and influence senior-level client stakeholders.
• Strong passion for branding with the intelligence and imagination to solve complex brand challenges across B2B and B2C.
• Proven ability to manage client budgets, deliver against profitability targets, and lead accurate weekly financial forecasting.
• Proactive mindset for identifying, nurturing, and converting new workstreams and business opportunities within existing client accounts.
• Ability to guide, inspire, and develop a client services team, creating an environment where team members can flourish.
• Collaborative partner who works seamlessly with strategy, creative, studio, and production teams to champion high creative standards.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

Skills

• Strategic Client Partnership
• Commercial Growth
• Inspirational Team Leadership
• Senior Client Gravitas
• Strategic Brand & Creative Expertise
• Portfolio & Commercial Accountability
• Organic Growth & Opportunity Identification
• Inspirational Leadership & Mentorship
• Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration
• Complex Project Direction
• Sound Business Judgment

Location

• Worldwide

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• Outstanding benefits
• Develop your skills

About the Company

• At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move. Pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects. With 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people and the planet.
• With expertise across brand strategy, brand design, brand engagement and brand effectiveness our clients across the world include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC.
• WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

Equal Opportunity

• Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
• We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.