Mindshare: Client Leadership Director

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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

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WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit

Mindshare delivers Good Growth for its clients. As “Growth Architects," we drive growth that benefits all stakeholders — better for people, planet, and business — by using media with intention. This approach creates more meaningful connections with consumers, increases consumer trust in the brand, and delivers better outcomes for all stakeholders.

As businesses continue to be impacted by the fast‑evolving changes of digitisation, we have an increasingly important role to play in helping our clients navigate the challenges they bring. The Client Leadership Director is responsible for helping to inform a transformation agenda and strategic vision for the clients’ entire business and overseeing the execution of that vision, and brings credibility to this role in terms of their global technical and operational knowledge, including strategic skills, global media channel strategy, account performance and optimisation;

networking and collaboration skills, client management and interpersonal skills, people management and communication skills, accuracy of financial management and reporting. This will involve working closely with regional stakeholders across the whole client organization & WPP.

• Build the capabilities to set up a regional planning, implementation and market excellence guidance out of the UAE.
• Maintain a deep understanding of your clients’ business and the broader industry sector.
• Integrate the AI global agentic work streams and solutions locally.
• Identify the client’s needs and work with key specialist(s) to deliver in an area such as: digital preparedness, competitive benchmarking, audience development, site analytics, objective setting, budget development, campaign prioritization, measurements for success, marketing ROI and partnership ecosystem.
• Growing the C‑suite relationships, scope of service and client satisfaction.
• Own the day to day and where applicable, senior global client relationships and look for opportunities to broaden our relationship beyond marketing.
• Effectively lead the network of local markets working on the client’s business, building a strong culture across the network, and ensuring a consistent level of excellence every time.
• Quality control overall deliverables to the client, in conjunction with the assigned specialist teams.
• Navigate conversations with clients to ensure initiatives/briefs align with business goals.

• Foster innovative thinking and ideas with particular emphasis on content, digital and technology innovation, and the use of data, and the growth of commerce solutions.
• Demonstratean understandingforclient commercials including effective scoping of resources, quarterly forecasting & helping toidentifyopportunities for new revenue growth.
• Act as a change agent within Mindshare byshowcasinggreat workand helping us to drive transformation across the business.
• Provide input into the marketing of our vision and reputation.
• Build collaboration with relevant WPP companies and agency partners including media owners, tech partners, content & data providers.
• Recruit, manage and develop a high performing team to support the scope of work and strategic plans for the…