Associate Business Director - Communications Consultancy

Associate Business Director - Communications Consultancy

Saatchi & Saatchi is a leading global communications and advertising network known for its impactful creative ideas that generate powerful emotional connections between consumers and brands. Present in over 67 countries, Saatchi & Saatchi employs 6,500 professionals over 114 offices. Global clients include HSBC, P&G, Toyota, Visa and GSK. Saatchi & Saatchi is part of Publicis Communications, a key division of Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group.

• Responsible for both building client relationship and monitoring a team, while collaborating with senior leadership (Business Lead / CEO), the various departments of the agency (creative, strategy, production) and other potential partners from Publicis Group (media, Vertical, epsilon, sapient)
• Ensure the smooth development of the brands' strategies and integrated communication, translating business needs to creative challenges and ensuring a timely delivery milestone.
• Identifying and developing opportunities to drive new business proposals involving the group capabilities.
• Inspire, mentor, and guide the career development of junior team members.

• Leading the entire development of end-to-end campaigns in collaboration with the agency’s departments (strategy, creative services, creative, production) and when required, with other Publicis Group teams such as media, Publicis Content, Data & Sciences, e-commerce, Sapient or Epsilon.
• Responsible for developing, leading, and owning the agreed SOW per client.
• Manage the day-to-day relationship with clients and have the ability to work with a wide spectrum of clients.

• Build trusted relationships with clients to transform the traditional work/exchanges into an advisor/consulting conversation: understanding business needs and requirements to proactively support your clients’ business growth.
• Understand and be curious about client business, the industry, the competition, trends and innovations.
• Demonstrate strong project management skills and ability to prioritize, and work under pressure.
• Ensure campaigns or projects are delivered on time and brief, with a keen sense of attention to detail and high standard of work.
• Constantly exceed client expectations and ensure KPIs are met.
• Confidently manage multiple projects, multiple clients on multiple markets as well as internal stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting and P&L and be able to do periodic reviews with the finance department.
• Lead the full operational side of projects and support coordination tasks, managed by the account managers /executive who need to be supported and guided around key campaigns and deliverables.
• Set clear roles and responsibilities at the start of each project for your team, allowing for their constant development and learning.

• Ability to think strategically, creatively, and analytically to challenge the client’s partners and propose innovative solutions to briefs.
• Identify growth opportunities and solutions within the assigned clients for Publicis group’s vertical or services (media, CRM…)
• Proactively share ideas and innovations supporting current products and services or with new partnerships.
• Proven strong communication and negotiation skills with a sharp problem‑solving mindset.
• Produces insightful, innovative, and clearly articulated presentations.

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in related field (communication, digital or marketing).

R-3596P-4079

Not Applicable

Full-time

Business Development and Sales

Advertising Services