New Business Director M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment UK Soho, London Hybrid Remote

New Business Director

About Us:

For the past 20 years, M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment has connected brands to consumers through the things people love, making brands culturally relevant through passions. We are the passions agency. We forge enduring connections between brands and consumers through their love of sport, entertainment, and culture.

Our clients include adidas, Ballantine's, Barclaycard, Barclays, Jameson, Dreams, Heineken, Kia, Old El Paso, UEFA, The LEGO Group, Lynx, The IOC, Red Bull, UNICEF, Absolut, and many more. With offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney, New York, and Johannesburg, a team of specialists delivers the agency's core disciplines across sport, entertainment, and lifestyle, including sponsorship consultancy, rights amplification, PR, branded content creation, and experiential production.

Our work has been awarded across the board, including seventh-time Agency of the Year at the Sport Industry Awards and two-time large Agency of the Year at the UK Sponsorship Awards. The agency is driven by two principles: First, the philosophy of 'Brutal Simplicity of Thought', which has been the M&C Saatchi (UK) Group's mantra since birth: simple messages are the most powerful. Second, 'Diversity of Thought', the belief that similar people think similar thoughts, which leads to homogenous work; therefore, diversity of thought is a creative imperative.

About the Role:

We have a new exciting opening to join our award-winning team, leading new business development for our thriving business to expedite our growth trajectory. While the role is to support M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment in the UK, we are looking for a candidate with a globally-reaching network.

WHAT YOU'LL BE:

• A senior new business professional with unrivalled contacts across the Sport, Entertainment, and Lifestyle spaces.
• Connected to procurement teams and brand leads with an open dialogue across leading household brand names, rights holders, and brand groups with thoughtful and effective management of intermediary relationships.
• A real networker - someone with an ear to the ground, one step ahead on new business opportunities who thrives on bringing opportunities into the business and being a big part of our growth.
• Commercially astute - fundamentally, this role is about driving revenue, both directly and indirectly. We are looking for a mix of smart, quick wins and longer-term brand building opportunities. Volume of large-scale opportunities will become the benchmark. We need pace, evidence of return, and results.
• Culturally attuned - knowledgeable and passionate about our sectors and area of business across sponsorship, partnerships, PR, social, influencer, events, and activations, with extensive experience having worked in similar roles.
• Client acquisition - connecting marketing efforts and activity to tangible new business opportunities.
• A team player - helping us to better work with the M&C Saatchi group to promote our collective capabilities and access incremental opportunities.
• Results focused - leading creation and management of a measurement framework to engage stakeholders, track progress, optimise investment, and improve volume of opportunities.
• Entrepreneurial - creating fresh ideas with the perseverance to drive these through to execution.

This is a hybrid role working 3 days a week minimum in our London office.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry, and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity, and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).