Business Lead

Saatchi & Saatchi has grown from a start-up advertising agency in London in 1970 to a global creative communications company with 114 offices in 67 countries and over 6500 employees. Saatchi & Saatchi is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world's third largest communications group We are a full service, integrated communications network and we work with 6 of the top 10 and over half of the top 50 global advertisers. We're in the business of getting people to fall in love with our clients' products and services. We have an unshakeable spirit and unbeatable attitude that Nothing is Impossible, a concept we apply to all our clients and work. We believe in effecting positive change through creativity, always. While we seek out the most brilliant minds to help us on our quest, we're also passionate about nurturing the best talent from within. Which is why when you join us, your journey can be one of continuous evolution.

The role establishes the agency's next generation of leaders who are experts across all creative and media agency services and platforms. A hands-on future leader across all facets of the brand agency's business with the ability to converse confidently and lead on all clients servicing needs, be it technology, data, content, trading, planning, or strategy.

Future leaders that will be solidifying and delivering the vision for the agency built from a culture of high performance, innovation... leading to a unique differentiated marketplace proposition. These leaders focus on solving problems and growing clients' businesses keeping true to a sound and profitable commercial model.

The business Lead is a strategic trailblazer who boldly takes risks and makes difficult decisions that propel the agency into the future. Transforms capabilities, inspiring and engaging talent along the journey, while setting the vision and strategic direction of the client's business through consultative partnership.

As a growth mindset leader, the Business Lead is an advocate of high-performance culture and uplifts team performance by empowering and coaching, while creating a distinctive culture of accountability and inclusivity that ignites engagement and enables high performance and collaboration.

The Business Lead is a driver of agnostic collaboration/interdependency, growth mindset, adaptive gene, resilience, savviness in Data/Technology, very agile, consultative selling (upselling/crossupselling/cross selling), commercial acumen, comfortable in change, simplifying the complex, Influential and impactful.

Strategic Business Consultancy and Input

Manage and maintain the client relationship including servicing the business end-to-end.
- Oversee the overall performance, profitability, growth, and reputation of the agency.
- Responsible of all outcomes, quality control and the health of the relationship with the client across all disciplines, practices, facets of the business internal and external.
-Generate year-on-year revenue growth supported by visionary business plans set in collaboration with the CEO of the brand.

Knowledge & Skills Development

-A self-starter: partners with the CEO and other leadership roles and proactively looks for solutions.
-Passion for innovation and creative thinking, relentlessly driving to deliver tangible business results.
-Committed to high standard in a pragmatic manner (not idealistic/ theoretical).
- Ability to challenge conventional thinking in a constructive way.
- Develop and drive the skills matrix required to service the account(s) end to end and ensure these skills are acquired by the team in collaboration with the talent team.

A self-starter: partners with the CEO and other leadership roles and proactively looks for solutions.
- Passion for innovation and creative thinking, relentlessly driving to deliver tangible business results.
- Committed to high standard in a pragmatic manner (not idealistic/ theoretical).
- Ability to challenge conventional thinking in a constructive way.
- Develop and drive the skills matrix required to service the account(s) end to end and ensure these skills are
acquired by the team in collaboration with the talent team.

Product & Creative Excellence
- Drive creative excellence by adding value to the client's brief, challenging their thinking while inspiring rich media-neutral creative propositions that resonate with customers and prospects by drawing on existing and
new insights.
- Foster an environment encouraging the pursuit of excellence in effective and innovative creative ideas while partnering with the strategic and creative counterparts to achieve client business goals.
- Experience in strategy development, analytical techniques and complex problem solving.
- Experience in upselling our Groupe products to clients and being able to monetize them.

Operational

- Oversee the strategic communication management, planning and creative process and allocate and assign talent from the different disciplines on projects accordingly.
- Manage budgets on weekly/monthly/yearly basis.
- Keep accurate records of campaigns against client agreed contractual scope.
- Responsible in insuring that all delivery and reporting of campaigns is done on time and with zero errors.
- Responsible and accountable for the hygiene of the account end-to-end including operations, reporting, financial management, account data and intellectual capital.

Leadership & Talent Management

-A highly articulate and persuasive writer, speaker, and storyteller.
- A self-starter: partners with the CEO and other leadership roles and proactively looks for solutions.
- Passion for innovation and creative thinking, relentlessly driving to deliver tangible business results
- Ability to challenge conventional thinking in a constructive way.
- Actively nurture a working environment where diversity, unique perspectives, inclusivity, and collaboration thrives.
- Responsible for the end-to-end team management including setting goals and objectives, strategies and KPI measurement framework for the team. Running an effective Career Conversations that is cascaded to each member of the team.

Bachelor's degree is a must and a master's degree is a plus.
- At least 15 years of experience in communication and advertising and managing clients.
- 8-10 years' experience in managing and coaching successful teams.
- A strong record of accomplishment of meeting or beating revenue goals and set KPIs.
- A strong network of senior level industry professional and experts.
- Demonstrated success at building industry leading intellectual capital, processes, and ideas.
- 5 Years of demonstrated hands on experience in performing strategic planning and leadership.
- Thorough understanding of all aspects of selling, designing, performing, and delivering large complex projects.
- Strong leadership abilities and the ability to teach and mentor direct reports.
- Project management skills with ability to co-ordinate multiple projects of different scales simultaneously.
- Self-starter and self-motivated with ability to work independently.
- Ability to communicate across all levels of clients (from executive to C-level) and all levels of the agency/client.