About the Role
As a Business Director, you will be the strategic linchpin between our agency and a world-leading brand. You will drive client success by delivering high-quality integrated campaigns, building deep, trusted partnerships, and leading a multidisciplinary team. Your core focus remains on robust commercial leadership, nurturing your account team, and ensuring your client remains at the forefront of a highly competitive landscape.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate and expand senior-level client relationships, serving as a trusted strategic advisor and collaborative partner.
- Lead the development and execution of effective, high-quality integrated campaigns that meet client business objectives, leveraging AI-powered market intelligence and advanced analytics.
- Take full ownership of account profitability, including forecasting revenue, managing budgets, negotiating contracts, and ensuring overall financial health.
- Guide, inspire, and nurture multidisciplinary POD teams, fostering a supportive, high-performance culture.
- Serve as the primary strategic interface and orchestrator between multiple internal agency disciplines, external agency partners, and key regional/global stakeholders.
- Champion the seamless adoption and utilisation of the DIPPAM workflow, demonstrating how technology drives efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation.
- Identify and articulate new revenue streams and organic growth opportunities by showcasing the transformative power of our integrated agency offerings.
- Proactively identify and implement solutions to enhance client service delivery, leveraging augmented agentic teams for routine tasks.
- Stay relentlessly informed about industry trends, consumer behaviour, and advancements in technology, adapting strategies and advising clients on future-proofing their marketing efforts.
Requirements
- Proven track record of cultivating strong senior client relationships and acting as a trusted advisor.
- Advanced skills in financial management, P&L responsibility, and revenue generation.
- Extensive experience in leading and delivering highly effective, multi-channel integrated campaigns that drive measurable business impact.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and inspire multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning, empathy, and collaboration.
- A strong understanding of AI technologies and their strategic application in marketing.
- Ability to integrate AI insights and tools (such as WPP Open) to drive commercial growth and team efficiency.
- Expert ability to interpret complex data sets and AI-generated insights to inform strategic planning, campaign optimisation, and client recommendations.
- Deep understanding and practical experience with modern agency workflows, specifically how to leverage platforms to enhance collaborative processes.
- Superior communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with the ability to articulate complex strategies and their business impact to diverse audiences.
- Maintain an expert-level understanding of the client's specific industry, competitive landscape, and market trends to inform strategic recommendations.
Skills
- Client & Commercial Leadership
- Integrated Campaign Expertise
- Team Leadership & Development
- AI & Technology Acumen
- Strategic Planning & Analytics
- DIPPAM & Workflow Mastery
- Communication & Influence
- Industry Knowledge
About the Company
- T&P is one of the world’s leading full service creative and media agencies, connecting talent and tech to drive growth for brands.
- Formed by the integration of The&Partnership and mSix&Partners, it brings together content and distribution into a single, holistic end-to-end marketing solution.
- Backed by WPP and WPP Media and combined with the agility of an entrepreneurial Partner-led mindset, the multi-discipline agency spans four continents with 45 offices and over $1.2 billion dollars in billings globally.
- As an early adopter with the first ever AI-generated TV ad for Lexus in 2018, T&P is focused on harnessing AI across all its outputs with its 1,900 people already trained on WPP’s proprietary AI platform Creative Studio, to deliver enhanced outcomes for clients.
- We believe in The Power of &, connecting talent & tech to fuel brand growth.
- Our teams blend creative, media, experience and technology specialists from across our marketing practices.
- The performance mindset of these teams optimises to business outcomes in every channel, fueled by the latest innovations in AI.
- We want to make a lasting impression on our people, by striving to become the most important place in their careers.
- We build strong communities around them; provide the best possible opportunities for them to develop & grow; and empower them to make a difference to their clients and the world at large.
- Our strengths often lie in our differences, so we challenge and champion each other and our clients, to be the very best we can be.
Equal Opportunity
- T&P is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without 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.
