Agentur: Initiative
Funktion: Operations
Standort: London, United Kingdom
Job Ref#: 13968
Beschreibung und Anforderungen
Zusammenfassung der Position
The Chief Growth Officer will lead all aspects related to agency growth; both new business and organic growth. Will sit on the EMEA senior management team, interacting with the Global Client Teams and collaborating with the Global and EMEA-market Growth teams.
You should have a keen understanding and be able to identify commercial business implications, have a strong sense of urgency and have follow-up skills. You are responsible for producing high-quality presentations, client requests, client communications, and client-facing collateral.
You are responsible for managing, coaching and developing the EMEA hub Growth team members – developing their skills, evaluating their performance and helping manage their growth. In addition, you are responsible for supporting and coaching the Heads of Growth in the Initiative EMEA markets, both on a regional level (e.g., Initiative in the Nordics region) and on a local level for the top 10 EMEA markets.
Schlüsselverantwortlichkeiten
- Leads EMEA regional new business pitches (in close cooperation with the Global Growth team) including partnering with business stakeholders, maintaining stewardship, ensuring quality, and providing commercial accountability.
- Develops opportunities for new business, demonstrating an organised, methodical approach to identifying targets and prospecting, including networking, and connecting with pitch consultants.
- Effectively mobilizes members of the pitch team to develop strong pitch materials and presentations while inspiring confidence and motivating teams to deliver their best work.
- Responsible for managing, coaching and developing the EMEA hub Growth team members.
- Supports and coaches the Heads of Growth in the top 10 Initiative EMEA markets.
- Manages resources as needed to respond to pitches across all EMEA offices.
- Responsible for delegating tasks to team members to ensure appropriate utilisation.
- Oversees the design, look and feel of new business materials across Initiative EMEA offices.
- Share best practices across the region and inspire EMEA market leads and Heads of Growth.
- Creates and drives the production of new business creative content (e.g., videos, playbooks, mock-ups, presentations, leave-behinds).
- Performs in a fast-paced environment, under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Offers creativity and ability to come up with new, innovative thinking and manage big-picture ideas.
Gewünschte Fähigkeiten und Erfahrungen
- Media and performance agency experience; tenure in new business at an international media agency group is strongly preferred.
- Seasoned written and verbal communications skills with the ability to adapt writing to a voice that resonates with whoever audience, e.g., prospective client.
- Commercial skills
- Strong media knowledge that includes brand and digital performance media, with an emphasis on ROI.
- The facility in discussing high-level concepts of modelling and other processes to demonstrate accountability for media investments.
- High energy and enthusiasm for media, digital performance, ROI, data and technology.
- Strong presence and confidence to best represent Initiative internally and externally.
- Team player: the ability to collaborate well with senior management, staff, clients, pitch consultants, and vendors at all levels.
Beschäftigungstransparenz
At Mediabrands and Kinesso, we celebrate difference and believe this makes us stronger. Mediabrands and Kinesso are equal opportunity employers and committed to championing an inclusive culture that provides a sense of belonging for all our employees. We do not discriminate against any applicant based on age, disability, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, belief, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please reach out to our Talent Inclusion Specialist Jess at Jess.Richardson@mbww.com if you would like to have a confidential conversation regarding any adjustments that would ensure our recruitment process is accessible for you. Please note requesting a reasonable adjustment will not affect your application.
Über uns
Initiative is different to other media agencies.
We are not trapped by a legacy structure primarily centered on paid advertising. Instead, we are liberated by a new world structure designed to deliver highly differentiated and highly effective communications strategies for our clients.
We are the world’s fastest growing media agency built upon the strongest strategic capability of any agency in the market. Core to this strategic proposition is the belief that the faster a brand can move through culture the more relevant it can become.
We call this Cultural Velocity ™.
Our process is designed to create ideas that move through culture through unique insight, market leading analytics and strategic media brilliance.
Our new world model is comprised of “craft centers” – Client Advice and Management, Strategy, Communications Design, Partnership and Culture, Insights & Analytics.