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About the Role
As the Luxury Client Director, you will lead strategic partnerships with prestigious luxury brands across Hearst UK’s iconic titles. You will develop insight-led commercial strategies to strengthen long-term partnerships, drive revenue growth, and unlock new business opportunities. You will cultivate senior client relationships and deliver integrated solutions across print, digital, social, video, and events.
Responsibilities
- Own strategic account plans for a portfolio of luxury clients, setting clear growth priorities and building long-term partnership roadmaps.
- Develop insight-led, integrated media plans that respond to clients’ business and brand objectives across print, digital, social, video, events and other relevant channels.
- Translate audience, market and campaign insight into compelling commercial recommendations, ensuring Hearst’s brands and capabilities are matched to the client opportunity.
- Identify and convert opportunities to grow existing accounts, including new briefs, cross-platform partnerships, expanded campaigns and new areas of investment.
- Build strong, direct relationships with senior client and agency stakeholders, acting as a trusted strategic adviser and maintaining a clear understanding of their priorities.
- Lead the development of high-quality proposals, pitches and presentations, working with internal specialists to create distinctive ideas and clear commercial narratives.
- Track account performance and market developments, using data and client feedback to improve plans, demonstrate value and inform future growth.
Requirements
- Experience in senior client partnership, account management, media, publishing, advertising or brand marketing, ideally within the luxury sector.
- A proven track record of growing high-value client accounts through strong relationships, commercial judgement and a clear focus on delivering results.
- Strong strategic media planning skills, with a confident understanding of how print, digital, social, video, events and other channels work together.
- A genuine understanding of luxury brands, audiences and the wider luxury landscape, with the ability to engage credibly across fashion, beauty, travel, automotive, drinks and lifestyle categories.
- The ability to use audience insight, market intelligence and campaign performance data to shape recommendations and make persuasive business cases.
- Excellent presentation, negotiation and communication skills, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders and lead complex conversations.
- Highly organised, commercially minded and collaborative, with the resilience and curiosity to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- In office policy with flexible Fridays
Salary/Compensations
- £50,000 - £55,000 + Commission
Benefits
- Good Housekeeping Taste and Beauty Testing Panels
- Office sample sales
- Specsavers eye care
- Company-funded Health Cash Plan
- Access to mental health support
- Discounted gym memberships
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Location Flex
- Holiday Exchange
- Charity Day
- Wellbeing resources
- ERG Groups
- Generous Workplace Pension
- Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Season Ticket Loan
- Salary Finance tools
- Financial Wellbeing sessions
- Home Tech benefits
- Discounts across London
- Savings via the HAPI at Hearst app
About the Company
- Hearst UK is the UK's leading premium publisher, home to iconic and influential media brands including Esquire, Men's & Women's Health, ELLE, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Digital Spy, Cosmopolitan, Red and more.
- Our workplace is driven by passion, shaped by authenticity and powered by creativity. We back bold ideas, act with an entrepreneurial mindset and continually evolve to meet the moment - while respecting the legacy that's brought us here.
- We believe in each other's potential and push boundaries together to create meaningful impact, both across the media landscape and in people's lives.
- We're proud of our heritage - but even more excited about making history.
Equal Opportunity
- Hearst UK is deeply committed to using our influential brands to reflect the world we want to live in – one that respects, protects, represents and uplifts the voices and opinions of all people.
- As a business, we recognise the significant benefits of creativity, collaboration and innovation that comes with diverse teams.
- Not only is diversifying the voices in our organization the right thing to do, but it also helps us to make powerful and exciting content that can be enjoyed by many more people.
- This is why we’re working to build a sense of true belonging within our business and foster a culture in which everyone feels heard.