Description
Position at GroupM
About GroupM
GroupM is WPP's media investment group and the world's leading media investment company with a mission to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. The company is responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence. Through its global agencies Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and T&Pm, and cross-channel performance (GroupM Nexus), data (Choreograph), entertainment (GroupM Motion Entertainment) and investment solutions, GroupM leverages a unique combination of global scale, expertise, and innovation to generate sustained value for clients wherever they do business. Discover more at www.groupm.com.
Role Summary and Impact
We have an exciting opportunity to join our newly evolved Growth team. This role is based in Dubai and will work closely with the growth team, content team, and marketing team to deliver exceptional new business responses.
As a Growth Strategy Director, you will be part of one of several squad teams, spearheading the delivery of compelling strategies to win and retain key multi-market clients for the group and agencies.
You will be a seasoned strategist, with significant client-facing and ideally multi-market leadership experience across UAE and KSA, with a successful track-record of leading on all strategic efforts of a pitch process. Core responsibilities include:

• Strategic leadership on multi-market pitches and global prospecting, plus supporting on game changing local pitches where required.
• Owning the overall narrative arc across all written and presented materials.
• Delivering compelling strategies in pitch and prospecting meetings.
• Partner with the agency brand strategic leadership to operationalise each of the three. agencies planning processes (Mindshare's Good Growth Platform, Wavemaker's Provocative Planning and EssenceMediacom's Breakthrough) to create a compelling and connected strategy that differentiates the participating agency.
• Bringing together content into a single narrative, working with key stakeholders in the different disciplines from across the group
• Briefing, coaching and co-developing (where required) market teams across multi-market pitches to ensure consistent, high calibre outputs and delivery
• Working closely with insights team to gather rich insights relevant to the category, company, consumer etc
• Supporting the Head of Growth across multiple pitches, ensuring high standards of delivery
• Building and maintaining productive relations with Nexus, Choreograph and other WPP opcos to stay up to date with their talent, systems and innovations
• Ensuring that our best work and pitch learning is replicated widely through active collaboration with the wider strategy team and onward distribution and coaching to pitching teams locally
• Work collaboratively with Strategy Squad counterparts to create compelling growth stories that can be utilised for pitch presentations, client work and award entries
• Bring an up-to-date point of view of our best work across the group and new needs arising from pitches to continuously evolve the way that we do things
• Sharing relevant thought leadership with the wider squad team to ensure they are educated on the latest trends and category insights

Skills and Experience

• A senior team leader with experience in a client facing or growth role
• A genuine team player and supportive partner
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and charismatic sales representative in pitch and prospect meetings
• Excellent understanding of the tools and processes that create the distinctiveness of each agency brand
• Superb written, ppt and presentation skills
• The confidence to give direct feedback and guidance to colleagues, including senior leadership
• Have deep experience in translating between marketing briefs and business requirements
• Be skilled in recognising and supporting local nuances and differences to come to the surface inside a globally consistent framework of thinking and delivering
• Know a killer idea when they see it and be able to deliver it compellingly
• High level collaboration skills with a wide range of stakeholders, organisations and markets
• Deliver on the individual promises of WPP, GroupM and each of the three individual agency brands (Mindshare Good Growth, Wavemaker Positive Provocation, EssenceMediaCom's Breakthrough for Brands)
• Speed and agility to work with diverse markets around the world

At GroupM, 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 & GroupM'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.

Life at GroupM & 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. GroupM employees can tap into the global GroupM & 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.
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