EVP, Client Leadership

Company Description

Dentsu Creative US is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across the United States who blend local knowledge with global expertise. Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future. Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people in dentsu international’s global creative network.

Job Description

The EVP, Client Leadership will play a key strategic role for one (or more) of our most prestigious client relationships. In this role, you will be the lead steward. This requires a dynamic approach inclusive of managing a continuously evolving relationship in our ever-changing marketing landscape. This role demands a forward-thinking strategic leader who will oversee a large multi-disciplinary team serving both national and global clients. You will also play a key role in identifying new growth opportunities both within your existing brands and agency new business efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Client + Brand Advisor
  • Demonstrate thorough understanding of your client's market landscape, including competition, with a perspective and POV on trends that bring innovative thinking and ensure forward-looking work.
  • Use your experience and deep understanding of the client's business, including emerging trends, consumer behavior, and the ever-evolving innovation landscape relevant to your client's business, to establish yourself as a thought leader and help set the direction for your accounts.
  • Serve as a key point person for all day-to-day client communications across the team, which include but are not limited to daily updates to the more senior client-agency evaluations.
  • Develop and maintain strong collaborative internal and external relationships, becoming the client's go-to agency resource for any and all initiatives.
  • Run senior client level meetings, ensure work is delivered on time, on brief, and within budget, and take a proactive and transparent approach should the team not be able to deliver within the budget/timeline provided.
• Creative Collaborator and Creative Champion
  • Work seamlessly with your cross-discipline leadership team, as a team, and work to deliver famously effective work and thinking to our clients every day.
  • Set our people, presentations and work up for success.
  • You work with your creative and strategy leadership partners to own driving a culture of creative ambition with both clients and your cross-discipline agency teams.
  • Oversee and act as a client-centric contributor to project level work, shaping the approach or presentation based on the client business and brand strategy, organizational dynamics, and agency positioning.
• Growth Oriented Agency Leader
  • Lead Client Leadership team members, provide cross-disciplinary leadership by being prepared, proactive, thorough, fair, and balanced, and have a willingness to do what's required by clearly communicating and managing expectations.
  • Run the operations of the cross-discipline team - thinking as much about "how" we are working - ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities across the team.
  • Develop accurate budgets and timelines, manage budget in partnership with Project Management and Finance, support senior Account leadership by continuously reviewing financial performance at the top and bottom line, and successfully forecast against a project pipeline and guide investment decisions toward healthy agency profitability.
• Intentional Leadership
  • Lead through the lens of our values and ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion are core to how you lead.
  • Lead and invested in the growth and development of the account team. Comfortable with giving and receiving consistent feedback and making sure to create an environment that fosters strong performers on your team.
  • Lead and invested in the growth and development of the entire cross-discipline team - fostering a team environment that brings out the ability for everyone to do their best work.
  • Consider yourself an agency leader - invested in the culture and the wellbeing of our people.

Qualifications

• Passionate interest in the client's business while you always look for ways to get upstream within the organization
• High creative output standards, expecting the full team to be passionate, focused, and committed to making Famously Effective work for our clients
• 15+ years in a related environment (marketing, agency, advertising, etc)
• Experience in full 360 integrated work, including but not limited to TV, content, digital, social, and OOH
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