Executive Director, WPP Network Growth
About The Position
WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets. WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience. This role acts as a senior deputy to the Head of WPP Network Growth, leading high-priority ES opportunity activation across WPP Creative, WPP Media, WPP Open, agencies and priority client-team relationships. The role exists to find a senior operator who can move across the WPP ecosystem, translate opportunity signals into qualified ES pursuits, and create visible momentum while the broader ES operating model matures.
Requirements
- Senior agency, consulting or enterprise growth leader with proven experience operating across complex matrix organizations.
- Credible with agency leadership, GCLs, client-team leads and senior client stakeholders.
- Strong commercial judgment; can distinguish real ES opportunities from general interest or internal noise.
- Multi-disciplinary literacy across creative, media, CRM, data, AI, commerce, martech, content and platform transformation.
- Excellent writer and briefer; able to turn ambiguity into a focused opportunity narrative quickly.
- AI-enabled working style, using modern tools to accelerate research, synthesis, briefs, POVs and follow-up.
- Low-ego orchestration style; able to influence through the network without creating ownership tension.
Responsibilities
- Own a portfolio of priority WPP-sourced ES opportunities and ensure every opportunity has a clear owner, route, value case and next action.
- Engage senior agency leaders, GCLs and client-team leads to identify where ES can expand or accelerate existing WPP relationships.
- Convert early signals into qualified ES pursuits, including opportunity briefs, client problem framing, potential solution path and support requirements.
- Define the ES activation support required for each opportunity and route requests into the appropriate ES leaders.
- Coordinate closely with Growth Architecture when a WPP-sourced opportunity is complex, multi-pillar, technical or commercially ambiguous.
- Maintain visibility of active pursuits, blockers, conversion status and escalation needs for the Head of WPP Network Growth.
- Model the expected working standard for the Network Growth team: commercial, low-ego, fast, precise and collaborative.
- Create an initial priority opportunity map across WPP Creative, WPP Media, WPP Open, agencies and GCL / client-team relationships.
- Establish weekly operating rhythm with the Head of WPP Network Growth and Growth Operations.
- Take ownership of the highest-priority live WPP-sourced ES opportunities.
- Define a repeatable standard for opportunity briefs, activation requests and handoff tracking.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
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