Group Director, Search & social

position description

Summary:

Are you ready to show your broad and deep understanding of digital channels? Are you an attentive and consultative relationship builder who wins over clients? Are you a magnet for talent because you prioritize the development of your teams? 

Consider joining our leadership team as Group Director, Search & Social. 

In this high impact role, you will provide attentive oversight of assigned client accounts and direct a willing and talented team of digital experts. 

Partnering with the MD & Multi Channel Practice Director, you will bolster client relationships, identify new business opportunities & integrate Search/Social standard methodologies. 

You'll own your promises. You will be accountable for the successful project delivery on these accounts and revenue health. 

You'll achieve this by leading the appropriate strategies, develops POVs, provide thought leadership and drive innovation. The overarching strategies you invent will anchor and glue all the workstreams and execution together. 

Responsibilities:

• Do you have a high EQ and empathy for others? Using this you'll foster highly productive client, client partner and internal client/specialty lead relationships for the engagement team 
• Negotiate and resolve any raised client, agency, and vendor conflicts 
• Grow revenue within the current client base by identifying new and cross-product opportunities 
• We need you to showcase your knowledge of how to drive demand for advertisers. You'll provide in-depth strategic recommendations for current clients and strategize with sales on future prospects 
• Love to celebrate the #smallwins? Us too. Create the business success story, lead quarterly client business reviews, win renewals 
• We want you to power up the Engine room. This entails running the overall day to day operations teams, always seeking opportunities to optimize. 
• Scrutinize planning budgets, of assigned accounts, to identify strengths and weaknesses and ensures proper financial allocations 
• Approve I/Os 
• Partner on staffing with HR and Talent Acquisition. Collaborate with Multi-channel Practice Directors to develop and approve manpower estimates against new and assigned engagements 
• Serve as an advisor to search directors, social directors and associated staff on related accounts, ensuring personal and career development are prioritized. 

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 7 years of digital marketing experience gained in Agency, Publisher or on the Client Side. At least 2 years of leading teams of 6 people or above. 
• Managed over $1MM in client revenue with a track record of successful renewals 
• Developed strategies for helping Fortune 500 clients achieve their digital goals 
• Developed staff engagement hours estimates for digital marketing campaigns 
• Proven ability to solve complex technical and strategic problems 

Company overview

Get all the benefits of working with Fortune 1,000 clients in a dynamic and open environment where we take pride in what we do. We are looking for smart, hardworking professionals to drive business results as a member of the GroupM family.

GroupM is a WPP company. WPP is the world leader in marketing communications services, with 158,000 employees around the globe. Within WPP, GroupM is the consolidated media investment management operation and parent company to world-famous media agencies.

[m]Platform supports the organic search, paid search, paid social, programmatic, and AdOps practices of several GroupM operating companies. Each of these is the agency of record for many of the world's top advertisers.

The work environment is an upbeat, positive, and comfortable one that cultivates creativity and innovation. We have offices in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Irvine, Atlanta, and Seattle.

GroupM and all of its affiliates embrace and celebrate diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are a worldwide media agency network that represents global clients. The more inclusive we are, the more great work we can create together.