Commercial Director

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world's top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today's content experience.

Now offices are fully open we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, providing more flexibility to their working week. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for about 60% of the time for most people.

What does a UK Commercial Finance Director do at Hogarth?

This role is based in London and will be focused on driving margin growth across the UK business. This role will report directly into the UK Finance Director.

• Lead the business through the commercial landscape and help the company achieve and maintain a trajectory of profitable growth.
• Understand advertising production and bring innovation to the ways of working.
• Manage an agreed portfolio of UK clients.
• Ensure client & service profitability, taking remedial action on low margin/loss-making accounts.
• Deliver commercial training to the business.
• Oversee procurement.
• Manage client price increases.
• Review non-billable roles & time.
• Provide commercial thought leadership and be responsible for problem-solving.
• Support non-client specific Ops projects.
• Define and implement process and commercial policy changes, ensuring global compliance.

Flexibility to be available as required by the client, both in terms of timing and location, is important, so some out-of-hours commitments and business travel will be a feature of the role.

Reporting Lines and Key Stakeholders

This role reports to the UK Finance Director. You will work closely with the business and the global commercial team.

Professional Experience / Capabilities

• Experience of working in a commercial financial role.
• Relevant industry / professional services / multi-country experience.
• Team management experience.
• Strong operational awareness.

Personal Skills and Attributes

• Team management and leadership skills.
• Ambitious and driven.
• Comfortable in a dynamic environment; adaptable.
• Effective project management skills.
• Well-organised and self-starting.
• Open, honest and engaged.
• Change agent / challenger of the status quo.
• Good communicator, both oral and written.

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. We believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.

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