Senior Client Director

Design Bridge and Partners

ABOUT US At Design Bridge and Partners we believe design is the most powerful means of driving positive change. Whatever the business. Whatever the challenge. Because design answers the big questions. Reshaping how organisations behave and how people experience the world. So we’re redefining what design is and what design can do for brands, businesses, people and planet. We see design as the thread that unifies brand across strategy, identity, experience, and guardianship. With 850 people in 12 countries, our clients include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, Mondelez, Tencent, HSBC, Colgate, Reckitt, Fortnum & Mason and the BBC. ABOUT WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com. ABOUT THE ROLE Are you ready to lead creative work for some of the world’s most loved consumer brands? We’re looking for a Senior Client Manager who’s passionate about branding, thrives in the fast-moving world of Drinks and CPG, and knows how to turn ambitious ideas into standout results. This is a role at the heart of brand-building, where strategy meets design, and packaging tells a story. You’ll work with major global players across drinks, food, personal care, beauty, and wellbeing, managing high-profile projects that shape the way consumers engage with brands on-shelf and beyond. From bold redesigns to subtle evolutions, multi-market rollouts to sustainability-led innovation, you’ll drive projects from concept through to delivery. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams of strategists, designers, and creatives, you’ll ensure the work delivers against both creative ambition and commercial goals, on time, on budget, and on brief. ABOUT YOU  You’ll bring a solid background in brand, design, or creative agencies, with experience leading complex packaging and design projects for large scale, global drink and CPG brands. You’re comfortable working within brand frameworks, navigating multi-market rollouts, and balancing creativity with commercial know-how. You’re organised, proactive, and thrive on managing moving parts with clarity and precision. You communicate with confidence and empathy, whether you’re presenting ideas, solving challenges, or aligning a team around a shared goal. Your attention to detail is matched by your ability to see the bigger picture, keeping projects on track without losing sight of the end vision. Above all, you’re someone who brings energy, curiosity, and a sense of ownership to your work. You love working collaboratively, enjoy building strong relationships, and are excited by the chance to contribute to brands that people genuinely care about. WHY US? World-famous brands. National icons. Technology unicorns. Plucky upstarts no one’s yet heard of. You’ll get to work on all of these, with a team of brilliant, optimistic people right by your side and scattered all across the world. We’re passionate about our people and their careers. We’ll help you to develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits. So, you’ll have a chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours.   Design Bridge and Partners is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal. Due to the volume of applications, we unfortunately can only respond to successful candidates. We will not accept unsolicited CVs or approaches via recruitment agencies.   #LI-DNI #LI-DNP

Design Bridge and Partners

ABOUT US At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move. Pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects. With 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people and the planet. With expertise across brand strategy, brand design, brand engagement and brand effectiveness our clients across the world include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC. ABOUT WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com. ABOUT THE ROLE The Senior Client Manager role at Design Bridge and Partners involves supporting the Client Director in managing strategy and design projects, with a focus on nurturing and maintaining excellent client relationships at the brand manager level.  ABOUT YOU  Responsibilities • Demonstrate an understanding of the client’s business, brands, and markets. Question briefs, seek out additional information and understand requirements independently.  • Pro-active client servicing – anticipating client’s needs, planning ahead to make sure they are met.  • Brand/Project management – to support the client director in managing projects day to day, adding energy and initiative to help inspire the team and to ensure the most effective and efficient way of working.  • Build trusted relationships with clients, and your internal team through excellent commercial, resource and project management.  • Brief, scope, plan and deliver projects that are effective, profitable and enable the highest standards of work, with minimal support. • Demonstrates solid project management and best practice operational effectiveness, across multiple workstreams from start to finish.  • Accurately manage and support all aspects of the day-to-day finance admin, and reporting. • Deliver timely and accurate revenue forecasts, which resource can be planned against.  • A good understanding of the commercial value of the work and demonstrate this through creation of budgets for projects with minimal support. Ability to provide clear rationale and narrative to clients to obtain budget approval.  • Actively aware of profitability, consistently monitors utilization and realisation data to ensure your projects are running as efficiently as possible. Identify actions to address issues. • Be willing to take on fresh challenges in new business as a way of developing new skills and broadening your experience. • Support the client leadership team and other colleagues in new business activity, acting as principal contact for prospective clients, from initial contact, creds, tissue sessions, pitching, follow ups and commercial negotiations, with limited support. • Understand the business’s broader offer and collaborate outside your immediate team.  • Build respectful and supportive relationships with the creative and strategy leads. WHY US? We’re passionate about our people and their careers. We’ll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits. So you’ll have a chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours. We’re proud to be the world’s most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual’s Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024. You’ll get to take new projects to award-winning potential, as part of a connected team of brilliant, tenacious people right by your side and across the world.   We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.   #LI-DNI #LI-DNP

Brunswick Group

OPPORTUNITY Our Investor Brand practice is Brunswick's strategic and creative discipline focused on how companies build investor confidence and reputation over time. We work with global companies across reporting, Capital Markets Days, corporate brand, leadership communications, film, digital and live experiences, supporting our clients to communicate with clarity and credibility in high-profile and business-critical moments. What makes Investor Brand distinctive is the combination of creative capability with Brunswick's advisory expertise. Our teams work side-by-side with Brunswick advisors globally, bringing together strategic judgement, market understanding and high-quality execution. The Client Director will play a senior role in our reporting offer, leading large and complex client relationships and reporting programmes across Investor Brand and the wider Brunswick network. They will bring deep experience of corporate reporting, confidence in managing demanding reporting cycles, and the strategic judgement to help clients translate business strategy, capital markets expectations and stakeholder needs into clear, credible communications. ABOUT THE ROLE Including, but not limited to: * Lead large and complex Investor Brand client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders and setting clear direction for major mandates. * Lead demanding reporting projects, bringing confidence across strategy, content, design, production and stakeholder review processes. * Apply a strong understanding of reporting platforms and technologies, including Workiva and other major tools used to manage reporting workflows, governance and delivery. * Interrogate client briefs and translate business strategy, investor expectations, regulatory considerations and stakeholder needs into clear communication direction and actionable briefs. * Manage multidisciplinary teams with clarity on ambition, scope, responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, budget and quality standards. * Maintain commercial and delivery discipline across accounts and projects, including scope, resourcing, profitability, change control, timelines and core project documentation. * Identify opportunities to deepen client relationships across reporting, Capital Markets Days, corporate brand, leadership communications, film, digital and live experiences. * Contribute to the leadership and development of the Investor Brand reporting offer, including workstreams on industry trends, best practice, new client propositions and reporting innovation. * Build cross-functional understanding of the wider Investor Brand offer and help connect reporting work with adjacent advisory and creative opportunities. * Mentor colleagues, build positive team culture and share learning across the practice.   WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR * Extensive experience in corporate communications, reporting, investor communications, corporate brand, sustainability reporting, financial communications or a related field. * A strong reporting background, with proven experience managing large, complex reporting projects and leading teams through demanding reporting cycles. * Practical knowledge of annual reporting processes, stakeholder review cycles, content and design workflows, production requirements, governance sensitivities and platforms such as Workiva. * Strategic judgement, commercial awareness and the ability to work alongside colleagues to translate business strategy, market context and investor expectations into clear advice and high-quality outputs. * Confidence managing senior stakeholders, building trusted relationships and strengthening client engagement beyond individual projects. * Strong programme leadership across multi-workstream projects, with sound judgement on priorities, risk, resourcing, quality and pace. * Excellent communication skills: able to present effectively, read room dynamics, ask incisive questions and give clear direction to clients and teams. * A collaborative leadership style, with interest in developing new reporting offers, codifying best practice, mentoring colleagues and broadening understanding of the wider Investor Brand practice. WHY JOIN US Whether you are joining a client facing team, a core services team, or starting out on your professional career journey, joining Brunswick unlocks a range of employee benefits to support your financial future, health and wellness, family and community and continuous professional development.   ABOUT BRUNSWICK Brunswick is a global advisory firm. We help companies tackle high-stakes issues, navigate complex stakeholder relationships, and deliver high-impact outcomes.  Our clients value our ability to anticipate, shape, and respond to the key players and forces in the financial and investment arena, regulatory and geopolitical universe, NGO community, workforce and beyond. They rely on us for deep experience, fresh perspectives and original thinking. So, in Brunswick you will find an exceptional range of experience and talent with a rich mix of backgrounds. From the beginning, we have prioritized attracting, developing, and retaining the best professionals in the industry, united by a culture of inclusivity, excellence, and intellectual curiosity. Founded in 1987 in London, the firm has organically grown to 27 offices in 18 countries across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. We operate as a “one-firm firm” with no individual profit centers. This allows us to assemble fully integrated, bespoke teams for each client, able to draw on the full resources of Brunswick anywhere in the world.    Brunswick is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. Please read our Global Privacy Notice to understand how your data is managed.