M+C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment arelooking for a Director to join our industry leading Sport team. This is an exciting opportunity to drive continued growth in the department responsible for supporting the Managing Partner across: the commercials, the team, the work and the cultural impact.
You play a pivotal role in shaping and driving innovative work that pushes the boundaries and is industry defining. Your deep understanding of global cultural trends, consumer behaviour, and passion points across Sport & Entertainment will enable you to lead multidisciplinary teams in crafting compelling narratives and campaigns that connect brands to consumers through the things the love, in authentic and meaningful ways.
You are a leader with a strategic mindset, exceptional communication skills, with a passion for culture and fostering creative and inclusive work environments.
About The Role:
You will be responsible for driving the continued growth of our Sport department across Sport & Entertainment clients, leading commercials, the team, the work and the agency:
The Commercials
As a Director you will contribute to the commercial success of the Sport department, playing a key role in the commercial success of the business, which includes:
Achieving financial targets and goals
Procuring and progressing new business leads
Growing your client workstreams through incremental growth, spotting opportunities and proactively chasing them
Lead responses on client briefs to success
Negotiating rates and payment structures that are financially efficient
Tight management of scope delivery, dealing with hour overages with clients and ensuring your projects are not operating at a loss
Monitoring team performance and analysing data to provide actions to any team members under-utilised or overservicing
Manage budgets and financials on your accounts, ensuring projects are delivered within scope and on budget
Ensuring finance processes are adhered to and commercial paperwork is completed promptly and in line with audit and internal regulations
Ensuring your POs are approved and on time from clients
You work with other Directors to find staffing efficiencies and solutions that benefit the commercial success of your campaigns
The Team
You are an excellent team leader, responsible for the development and operations of an A-class team:
Oversee the Sport team and division alongside our Directors across line-management, recruitment and facilitating work
Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning
Keeping your team close-knit, engaged and highly motivated
Pre-empting and trouble-shooting any team issues
Maintenance of a good retention rate to ensure client stability, department efficiency and to maximise the benefits of long-standing tenure
Provide clear direction, feedback, and support to help team members achieve their professional and personal goals
Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within your team and the agency, encouraging diverse perspectives and ideas.
Adapting your approach to each individual
The Work
Clients should work with the agency because of their working relationship with you and your team, and because of our exceptional output:
Socialising and close relationship building with clients to support retention, growth and prospecting
Nimble and personalised approach to clients, leaning into who they are and how we can ensure a long-term relationship with them
Providing first-class counsel and strategic and creative oversight across the work
Maintaining standards of output and assuming responsibility for the work your team delivers, ensuring best in class work across all deliverables- keeping our standards high and teams accountable
Driving industry-defining work to ensure our campaigns are celebrated and talked about
Assume accountability for KPIs
Have periodical transparent conversations with clients around reviews/performance to pre-empt and address any issues early on
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
The Agency
The agency is a sum of its parts and while departmental focus is your core area of responsibility, you play a huge role in ensuring the success of the business overall, both culturally and commercially
Having a prominent voice across the business as a leader of the company
Working collaboratively with other offices and teams and encouraging you teams to work in a collaborative and integrated way, while celebrating their specialisms
Representing the business internally, working with other parts of the group to work towards overall growth plans
Representing the business externally, via industry events, trade press, networking and profile work
Maintaining the upmost professionalism and discretion as an ambassador of the agency, keeping agency information private and confidential and maintaining the integrity of the business
M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is ‘the’ Passions Agency – we create brand impact through the things people love, forging authentic connections between brands and consumers through their love of sport, entertainment, and culture.
Our clients include, adidas, Ballantine’s, Barclaycard, Barclays, Jameson, Heineken, Kia, LEGO and Unilever. With offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dubai, Sydney, New York and Johannesburg, a team of specialists deliver the agency’s core disciplines across sport, entertainment and lifestyle, including sponsorship consultancy, rights amplification, PR, branded content creation & experiential production.
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Our work has been awarded across the board, including seventh-time Agency of the Year at the Sport Industry Awards and two-time large Agency of the Year at the UK Sponsorship Awards.
M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment sits within the M&C Saatchi Group. Beyond this, the M&C Saatchi global network spans 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes 27 days annual holiday, private healthcare, employer contributory pension, life assurance and income protection.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sees us offer inclusive bank holidays, learning opportunities around DE&I, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in active Employee Led Networks and associated events.
All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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