Growth Director

About WPP Media

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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 wppmedia.com

Role Summary and Impact

We have an exciting opportunity to join our newly evolved Growth & Marketing team based in London. The team focuses on local market opportunities. Working closely with our global growth teams and agency leadership to maximise growth opportunities

As a WPP Media Growth Operations Director you will drive the growth operations within the team, ensuring all the necessary process information, RFI background and behind the scenes documentation allows a seamless pitch process across all UK pitches. This role will balance leading the pitch processes with driving our internal best practice.

You will be a new business professional, with experience with managing and leading local pitch opportunities and a successful track-record of managing and driving the deliverables for winning pitches.

• End to end running of a pitch process from RFI, to intermediary management, pitch design and internal set up as well as the final presentation and response.
• Project management of prospecting with key planning leads
• Support growth leadership in the largest pitch processes by leading on individual elements of that process, taking ownership of all deliverables, and managing the wider stakeholders
• Oversee the set up of all WPP Media RFI materials, background product information, best practice and internal collateral are the highest standard, with rigorous attention to detail.
• Ensure that all centrally held agency or group information is correct and signed off by the relevant stakeholder
• Work with design and production to develop high quality documentation in multiple formats to ensure ease of use
• Producing detailed briefing documents for teams to ensure clear on the pitch asks, deliverables and deadlines
• Supporting on ensuring the WPP Media Winning Pitch Process is always implemented in full
• Ensure you use AI effectively to shortcut key tasks, support the teams on how to implement and ensure all process AI tasks are set up and actively used. This role will require you to ensure WPP Media agents are able to support teams in multiple tasks within a pitch process.

In the first 100 days, you would have:

• Become fully accustomed to our network and agency propositions as well as our WPP Media Winning Pitch Process
• Become fully accustomed to our network and agency tool/tech solutions
• Have developed our approach to pitch collateral, background materials and how we store and share internal information
• Developed strong collaborative relationships with the agency teams as well as central functions at WPP Media

In the first year, you would have:

• Ensured all teams in the UK on pitches have the right internal materials, consistent approaches to collation and key pitch agents to support them in all operational tasks
• Delivered multiple pitches processes with the pitching teams, with a strong pitch conversion rate, delivering high quality pitch output across all deliverables
• Successfully contributed towards the WPP Media UK annual new business targets and COMvergence rankings

Skills and Experience

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.

• Extensive background working in a senior media agency role either leading client teams or managing pitch processes
• Excellent project management skills, capable of managing multiple projects with competing priorities
• Ability to shape pitch output and ensure high quality output across any deliverables
• Able to build AI agents and use them effectively to minimise work from key tasks
• Positive, can-do attitude and ability to keep teams motivated whilst working with them
• Proactive, flexible and organised, with strong attention to detail and a drive to win and to always improve
• Excellent written and verbal English language skills
• Mature, calm and confident when communicating to key stakeholders, inside and outside of the business
• Ability to manage a team to deliver winning content within tight time frames
• Strong collaboration skills with a wide range of stakeholders, organisations and WPP agencies

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.  

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location

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