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About the Role

The core focus of this role is centered on proactive client development, consultative project direction, and commercial & team management. You will expand existing accounts, lead new business pitches, ensure creative and strategic excellence, manage account profitability, lead revenue forecasting, and mentor junior colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Expand existing accounts and lead small-to-medium new business pitches.
• Ensure creative and strategic excellence across complex brand portfolios.
• Manage account profitability, lead revenue forecasting, and line-manage junior colleagues.
• Build and nurture deep, trusted relationships with day-to-day client contacts.
• Proactively identify opportunities to cross-sell the agency's full Brand World capabilities.
• Lead small-to-medium-scale new business initiatives and pitches.
• Act as a true brand consultant, providing strategic brand expertise.
• Oversee project planning and communication.
• Present creative work with clear rationales.
• Champion high design and execution standards.
• Manage the commercial health of accounts, setting financial targets, and negotiating budgets.
• Secure written approvals before work commences.
• Drive project profitability by monitoring resource allocation and tracking financial status.
• Assist finance teams in updating weekly forecasts.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, feedback, and encouragement to the project team.
• Create a positive environment that empowers team members to reach their potential.
• Take responsibility for the line management and ongoing development of junior staff.
• Integrate mentorship into daily working practices.

Requirements

• Proven ability to build mutual trust and conduct intelligent, strategic conversations at Brand/Marketing Manager level.
• Strong passion for strategic design with the ability to bring intelligence and imagination to complex brand challenges.
• Proactive and resourceful in identifying, pursuing, and converting new opportunities and workstreams within existing client portfolios.
• Highly skilled in planning, organizing, and directing large-scale projects, staying calm and resourceful under pressure.
• Good commercial mindset with the ability to negotiate budgets intelligently, manage project profitability, and lead revenue forecasting.
• Dedicated and supportive manager with a track record of mentoring junior team members and fostering a positive group culture.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, confident in presenting creative work with conviction and rationale.
• Open-minded and flexible collaborator who partners effectively with strategy, creative, studio, and production teams to champion high standards.
• Experience with clients in the Pharmaceutical / Medical or a related Sector.

Skills

• Client Relationship Management
• Business Development
• Consultative Brand Strategy
• Project Direction
• Financial Control
• Profitability Management
• Team Leadership
• Talent Development
• Communication
• Presentation Skills
• Collaboration

Location

• Worldwide

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Mid-level
• Senior-level

Benefits

• Outstanding benefits
• Professional development opportunities

About the Company

• At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move people.
• 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.
• We’re passionate about our people and their careers.
• We’re proud to be the world’s most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual’s Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024.
• We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection.

Equal Opportunity

• Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
• 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.