Director, Business Management

Company Description

For decades, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has provided consumer and professional marketing, strategic consulting, and medical education to pharmaceutical and wellness brands. Our mission is to inspire a healthier, happier, well-er world through award-winning work.

If you google us (which you may have done already), you’ll see that spreading wellness is literally our mission. We don’t just talk about making your well-being the most important thing, we mean it. Having a flexible hybrid-work policy, plentiful time off, and colleagues who want you to do well are all part of the gig. Oh, and of course the opportunity to work on some of the good-vibiest campaigns on the planet with very caring, very resourceful people. So, if you’re a rockstar writer, aspiring strategist, jill—or jack—of all trades, or just an all-around nice person, let’s chat.   

Job Description

The Director, Business Management is responsible for the stewardship and oversite of the BM team and BM Best Practices as well as providing principled guidance to SSW Operations leadership around client finance reporting and narrative, forecasting, investment tracking, risk analysis, and staffing allocations.   In addition, the Director, Business Management creates and helps develop training materials for the Project Management and CS Teams.

BM Stewardship:

Goal:  To provide each BM team member with consistent and targeted support with the goal of bolstering each members existing skills and providing a pathway to growth.   

• One on Ones
• Backend support on client and internal financial reporting
• Frontend support on client and internal financial reporting
• Person of escalation (forecast, investment, client relationships, etc.)

BM Best Practices:

Goal:  To create and socialize client and internal financial documents and processes that provide the most effective and detailed client finance analysis including:

• Project estimating tool
• Client Finance Tracker
• Accruals

SSW Leadership Oversight:

Goal:  To provide targeted support to book/account leadership around the following needs:

• New client finance conversations with clients and/or procurement
• Ideal client finance reporting and tracking
• Investment projections and tracking
• Partner agency relationships and engagements
• Approach to staffing and forecasting
• Risk analysis/identifying ‘red flags’

SSW Training

Goal:  Working with Project Mgmt and Finance, to establish comprehensive training decks and videos around the following subjects:

• Financial Tracking Process
• Fixed Fee, Value Based Pricing, and T&M Training
• Forecasting 101
• Estimating and Cost to Completes

Additional Information

Compensation Range:  $91,000 - $154,00 annually.  This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off.  The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 03/10/2024.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact hrcompliance_usms@publicis.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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