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)
• Be able to 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’s team such as media, Publicis Content, Data & Sciences, e-commerce, Sapient or Epsilon etc.
• Responsible for developing, leading, and owning the agreed SOW per clients
• Manage the day-to-day relationship with clients and having the ability to work with 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
• Ensuring 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 KPI’s are met
• Confidently manages 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 periodically 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 clients’ 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
• Min 8 years’ experience in related field (communication, digital or marketing)

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