Business Partner / Client Lead

Hybrid role with 3 days in our London office (Mon, Tues and Thurs)

FutureBrand:

We're FutureBrand, the flagship branding agency within the multi-award-winning global advertising agency network McCann Worldgroup.

24 years young with a head full of big brand experience and a gaze fixed firmly on the future, our work over the last two decades has changed the brand landscape today. What we do next will change tomorrow.

Together, we are a diverse brand, experience and design community who believe that brand is how a company's people, products and services behave wherever and whenever they show up in the world. Our work focuses on measuring and maximizing brand behaviour by connecting corporate purpose with everyday lived experience.

We're now looking for an experienced Business Partner (or Senior Business Director looking for the next step) to help lead our corporate brand team.

You will be responsible for leading and directing our corporate client account teams to achieve client deliverables and introduce new expertise to generate additional revenue profitability and relationship longevity. You will be directing and growing large-scale and complex accounts, one of which is a huge flagship account for McCann Worldgroup, whilst ensuring excellence in strategic and creative standards working in conjunction with the project leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop long-term client relationships built on trust, quality thinking, and effective creative solutions.
• Provide strong account direction, seeking opportunities to develop and grow client accounts.
• Lead and direct account teams to achieve client deliverables and introduce new expertise to generate additional revenue and profitability.
• Ensure briefs, creative and strategy solutions address the client's needs.
• Show responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty in all dealings.

Skills and Competencies:

• Significant experience of running large, complex accounts involving all aspects of corporate and service branding (including innovation and brand creation).
• Recognises and is passionate about great creative work.
• Excellent business acumen, with the ability to fully understand all aspects of business operations, financial and resource management.
• Proven Resilience: Remains calm under pressure; remains focused and optimistic; is persistent even with adversity and recovers easily from setbacks.
• Proven leadership with internal teams and clients.
• Ability to address situations in a positive and constructive manner.
• Outstanding communication skills at all levels (presentation, written, verbal).
• Effective negotiator, influencer, and communicator.
• Strong team player and have a key role in supporting others.
• Positive and can-do attitude and problem solver.
• Ability to work well under pressure, whilst remaining objective and retaining a positive approach.

We believe that ideas get better when they are inherently diverse and shared in highly inclusive ways and we want to hear from those who think differently from us. We truly believe in the strength of diversity and the richness it can bring. By bringing different people together great things happen.

FutureBrand is an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

FutureBrand is a disability-confident committed employer and will guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets the minimum criteria for the role.