Managing Director, WPP Creative & Agency Growth Activation

New York City, NY (On-site)

$125K/yr – $295K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the growth opportunity framing and cross‑agency activation for ES led transformations, turning signals into briefs and orchestrating pursuit across Pillar Lead, Consulting and Pursuit Excellence.

  • Build relationships with WPP Creative and agency leadership to unlock ES opportunities
  • Identify expansion areas from existing work into ES-led transformation and related domains
  • Develop briefs and route opportunities to the appropriate activation paths

Job Description

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.

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.

Benefits

  • a competitive benefits package.
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London, England, GBR
789 employees

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$125K/yr – $295K/yr

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Managing Director, WPP Creative & Agency Growth Activation

VML Enterprise Solutions · New York City, NY · On-site