Global Growth Director

Everest Search Partners • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Global Growth Director is a senior leadership role responsible for driving revenue growth and expanding strategic relationships with existing CPG clients. The role identifies new business opportunities within established accounts, strengthens executive-level client relationships, and connects client needs to the company’s creative, strategic, and innovation capabilities.

The Global Growth Director also provides leadership, coaching, and direction to Client Success Directors and Project Managers supporting assigned accounts. The role promotes strong client relationships, team accountability, and alignment between commercial strategy and project delivery.

Requirements

• Significant experience within an agency environment.
• Strong packaging experience; ideally within CPG or consumer brands.
• Proven track record of growing existing client accounts and expanding relationships within complex organizations.
• Experience leading senior-level client relationships and navigating multiple stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams and developing client-facing talent.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience with account growth strategies, pipeline management, proposals, and revenue forecasting.
• Excellent consultative selling, communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to balance strategic client leadership, business development, and team management.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Design, or a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute growth strategies for assigned accounts, identifying opportunities to expand the company’s presence across brands, business units, functions, and geographies.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and position the company as a strategic innovation partner.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and direction to Client Success Directors and Project Managers, establishing priorities and accountability.
• Uncover client needs and translate them into opportunities across design, strategy, insights, packaging, engineering, and prototyping capabilities.
• Oversee opportunity development, proposals, scopes, pricing discussions, and client presentations in partnership with internal teams.
• Maintain account growth plans, CRM opportunities, revenue forecasts, and visibility into progress against growth objectives.
• Connect clients with appropriate internal expertise and align commercial commitments with client expectations and project delivery.
• Stay informed on CPG, packaging, innovation, and industry trends to identify opportunities and strengthen client conversations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior