Managing Director, WPP Creative & Agency Growth Activation
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 is a global role focused on WPP Creative and agency client-team activation, driving ES growth activation through WPP Creative and agency client teams by helping them recognize, qualify and advance ES-relevant client opportunities. Many ES opportunities will emerge from existing agency relationships before they look like formal transformation briefs. This role gives agencies a senior partner who can spot the ES opportunity and move it toward qualification.
Requirements
- Managing Director-level agency or client growth leader with strong knowledge of creative and integrated agency operating models.
- Able to work through agency leadership without appearing to take over the client relationship.
- Comfortable translating creative and brand-led conversations into broader ES growth opportunities.
- Commercially sharp, collaborative and able to navigate multi-agency politics.
- Strong brief-writing, client narrative and meeting-preparation skills.
- Modern, AI-enabled working style with pace and precision.
Responsibilities
- Build active relationships with WPP Creative and agency leadership teams in major hubs.
- Identify where existing agency work can expand into ES-led transformation, CRM, content, commerce, data, AI or platform opportunities.
- Help agency client teams recognize the signals that indicate an ES opportunity may exist.
- Develop account-specific ES opportunity briefs and define the next best action.
- Support agency teams in early client conversations where ES credibility or framing is required.
- Route qualified opportunities into the appropriate ES activation support, Pillar Lead, Consulting / Advisory or Pursuit Excellence path.
- Capture repeatable patterns and plays that can be scaled across agency relationships.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
