Executive Director, Client Business Lead

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $250K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 12 days ago

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Job Summary

Lead and develop a Client Business Lead team, align brand goals with media plans, provide strategic guidance to clients, and drive agency growth.

  • Own team development and coaching
  • Guide clients on strategic media decisions
  • Shape agency growth and culture

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Leading a team of happy warriors: You’ll be their leader, directing workflow and inspiring collaboration. You are the goal setter and the visionary, setting the pace and paving the way towards a new frontier for our people and our clients. You will coach your team, providing routine feedback, all the while being an advocate of their learning and development at PHD.
  • Championing our media plan: You will connect brand goals with the target audience, leveraging media tools to uncover insights to activate the plan for a variety of campaigns.
  • Being a business leader with a point of view: You will be your client’s second set of eyes, with a view of the future, providing business, marketing, and strategic media direction. You must be willing and able to step in and help your clients to make the decisions that matter the most.
  • Shaping our fast-growing agency: As one of only a handful of Client Business Leads, you will be a leader inside our agency. This means you will have a voice in growing and fostering our culture, a hand in new business opportunities, and a point of view in training and coaching our people.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 15 years of media integrated planning experience across all channels.
  • Minimum 8 years of experience in managing and growing a team.
  • Have had experience managing complex and fast-moving business.
  • Have consulted and guided CMO’s and CEO’s towards new thinking.
  • Strong ability to have intelligent conversations about media planning, marketing, and business.
  • Be an overcommunicator to your team, your clients, and your agency partners.

Benefits

  • The chance to grow the agency, yourself, and your team.
  • Freedom to collaborate with over 4,000 colleagues in 80+ offices worldwide.
  • Opportunity to share your ideas across the agency.
  • A place that cares about your personal passions as much as we do your work.
  • At PHD, you’ll have a stage to shine your light; we believe it’s guys like you who make us the happy, scrappy, creative media agency we are today.
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PHD

Welcome to PHD.Powered by our next-generation network, PHD’s advanced thinking - Intelligence. Connected. - combines data, technology, and human expertise collaboratively to achieve greatness.This is how we are one of the world’s most awarded media agencies, and currently ADWEEK’s Global Media Agency of the Year.We have around 6,500 people in 81 offices across 74 countries, all connected in one platform, Studio. Studio, which launched in 2018, allows our account teams, planners, and strategists worldwide to collaborate to create online campaigns, producing 70,000 unique ideas from across the agency, together.This is how we transform experiences.This is how we move brands and businesses forward.www.phdmedia.com

Founded in 2006
London, England, GBR
5K employees (1,376 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

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95.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.8%
Direct
40.3%
Referral
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Social
3.8%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,281 (26% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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