Associate Director, Growth

Company Description

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

About Spark Foundry:

A Startup Spirit with a Powerhouse Soul.

At Spark Foundry, we deliver the best of these worlds to a client roster that spans some of the best and most beloved brands and companies. While energy, innovation, and modern thinking fuel our startup spirit, unrivaled marketplace clout, exclusive access and partnerships, and global practice capabilities deliver our powerhouse soul for clients as a full-service Publicis Media agency.

As one of the fastest growing agencies in the world, we exist to bring HEAT to brands. The HEAT we bring helps challenger brands and industry giants alike to drive Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions. Whether it’s pushing the limits of creativity to battle giants in a competitive category or working with renowned brands to think differently to win, our best of both worlds approach ensures no trade-offs in the pursuit of success. As AdWeek and Ad Age’s 2022 Media Agency of the Year, we are recognized as industry leaders who bring our HEAT every day.

And that HEAT expands beyond the results we deliver for our clients – it lives in our people. With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. By applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark champions a workforce that is well-prepared for today’s challenges, poised to help our talent as they embark on meaningful and rewarding careers.

Job Description

Role Overview:
To accelerate our growth, we are looking for a strategic, proactive, and well-organized leader to drive new thinking and deliver truly innovative work. Reporting into the Chief Growth Officer, this role will help lead the development of pitch presentations, materials, and communications to deliver new and organic business acquisition to deliver on our aggressive growth goals. We’re looking for an ambitious individual to fill this role – someone who isn’t afraid to share their ideas and opinions within a supportive and collaborative work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and organize pitch teams in answering RFI/RFP questions, chasing responses, editing responses, and preparing pitch presentations
• Lead and support the development of pitch presentations including critiquing and editing media plan content, brainstorming big ideas for pitch theater, and developing the pitch “story”
• Manage and motivate the pitch team while guiding and enabling pitch timelines, checkpoints, accountabilities, deliverables, design, production, and travel needs
• Collaborate and lead communications with local, regional, and global teammates, stakeholders, departments, and agencies
• Actively participate in presentation rehearsals by preparing presenters, ensuring key message points are hit and the pitch “story” is clear, concise, and strategic, always tying back to the brief and our differentiated story
• Identify new ways to drive innovation and efficiency within the pitch process and amongst the Growth team

• Manage, coach, and develop junior Growth team talent depending on final team structure
• Establish strong, collaborative connections with client and team members to work seamlessly together.

Qualifications

• Relevant successful experience – 7+ years in the media, marketing, communications, or consulting fields
• Strong communication skills – Manage strategic written and verbal communications with a keen focus on soliciting feedback and driving consensus
• Forward-thinker – Proactive; understand what will be needed and drive against it
• Superb project and time management skills with the ability to operate in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment comfortably and effectively
• Ability to establish productive working relationships and champion collaboration and discussion
• Detail-oriented, review and ensure accuracy of outputs, data, and storylines
• Innovation at the core, confidently brings forth new thinking, approaches, and capabilities
• Ability to drive simplification and clarify complex concepts, constructs, and language for clients and teams alike
• Solution-oriented – ability to solve problems and identify solutions both independently and in collaborative group settings

Additional Information

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

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