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About the Role

As a Client Partner, you will drive commercial and creative success across our North America portfolio, cultivating executive-level client partnerships, leading high-stakes new business pitches, and empowering multi-disciplinary teams to deliver world-class brand transformations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary lead for flagship client accounts and high-value growth opportunities, leveraging the full capabilities of Design Bridge and Partners and the wider WPP network.
• Own end-to-end new business initiatives, overseeing the process from pitch qualification and strategy through to final presentation and commercial negotiation.
• Partner with Commercial Finance to manage client budgets, drive project profitability, optimize team resourcing, and maintain high contribution margins.
• Directly line-manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing Client Leadership team, promoting an inclusive culture and agency best-practice principles.

Requirements

• 8+ Years of Senior Client Leadership: Proven experience building trust with complex, high-profile B2B and B2C clients within a top-tier brand, design, or FMCG consultancy.
• Expertise in client contract negotiations, budget forecasting, and driving organic account expansion.
• Demonstrated success leading winning pitches and converting prospective clients.
• Skilled at mentoring team members, setting performance standards, and supporting career progression.
• Ability to partner seamlessly with Creative, Strategy, and Operations leads to guide cross-discipline teams toward exceptional delivery.

Location

• North America

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 8+ Years of Senior Client Leadership

Salary/Compensations

• $150,000 to $250,000

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package

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 18 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.
• Our clients include global brands across industries, such as technology, finance, consumer goods, and media.
• 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’ll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits, giving you the chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours.
• 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.
• You’ll get to take new projects to award-winning potential, as part of a connected team of brilliant, tenacious people right by your side and across the world.

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 any other characteristic.
• 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.