Senior Client Manager

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 Director is a senior leadership role focused on directing and delivering major, complex brand projects independently. The core focus of your role is centred on three key dimensions: 1. Strategic Client Partnership Acting as a trusted advisor and champion high creative standards. 2. Commercial Growth Accountable management of client portfolios and new business conversion. 3. Inspirational Team Leadership Mentoring a high-performing, multi-disciplinary team to deliver exceptional work efficiently. ABOUT YOU  We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate the following skills and attributes Senior Client Gravitas: Exceptional communication, listening, and negotiation skills, with the credibility to advise and influence senior-level client stakeholders. Strategic Brand & Creative Expertise: A strong passion for branding with the intelligence and imagination to solve complex brand challenges across B2B and B2C. Portfolio & Commercial Accountability: Proven ability to manage client budgets, deliver against profitability targets, and lead accurate weekly financial forecasting. Organic Growth & Opportunity Identification: Proactive mindset for identifying, nurturing, and converting new workstreams and business opportunities within existing client accounts. Inspirational Leadership & Mentorship: Ability to guide, inspire, and develop a client services team, creating an environment where team members can flourish. Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration: A collaborative partner who works seamlessly with strategy, creative, studio, and production teams to champion high creative standards. Complex Project Direction: Highly skilled in overseeing and driving large-scale, global branding projects with momentum, efficiency, and a hands-on approach when required. Sound Business Judgment: Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to manage complex internal and external stakeholder expectations effectively. 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. 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

Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. We're looking for a Senior Client Account Manager to join our Global Strategic Accounts team. This team is a specialized group within Global Large Customer Sales that oversees Reddit’s most significant global advertising partners end-to end, by leading joint business planning, global strategy, and cross-regional execution. This person will closely collaborate with their Client Partner on campaign execution and optimizations to help agencies and advertisers achieve their marketing objectives on the fast-growing Reddit platform. This role is required to be based in person in London. Responsibilities: * Collaborate closely with Client Partners to meet and exceed clients’ marketing goals * Lead and execute campaign launches from start to finish and deliver insightful optimizations to agency and client partners * Run end-to-end global account operations: revenue delivery, complex media strategy, multi-market optimizations, troubleshooting, and structured upsell on a global book * Turn campaign performance and tests across markets into global playbooks and measurement frameworks, feeding back into Product, Marketing Sciences, and Client Partners * Proactively manage and deepen relationships with existing advertising partners, both with agencies and directly with Global clients, to drive year-on-year Reddit revenue growth * Educate brands and media agencies, effectively communicate value proposition and best practices * Consult clients on their awareness and direct response objectives, and partner closely with Client Partners to craft thoughtful and creative media plans * Collaborate with Ad Ops to ensure effective campaign delivery and resolve any technical hurdles * Proactively seek and represent client needs and asks to cross-functional stakeholders * Shape Reddit’s native ads product roadmap, for mobile and in general, by aggregating and sharing client feedback and campaign metrics with cross-functional stakeholders * Proactively and continually identify areas of improvement * Mentor and train other team members. Required Qualifications:  * 8+ years of experience in advertising sales and account management, global client experience is a plus * Strong understanding of customer marketing funnel and traditional marketing ecosystem * Comfortable with problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. * Understanding of Digital measurement, tracking fundamentals and mobile measurement partners * Tenacious and entrepreneurial approach to working through product, process, and client challenges * Experience cultivating strong relationships with external partners * Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills * Ability to work in a fast-paced and unstructured work environment * High attention to detail * Proficiency in Excel preferred * BA / BS degree or equivalent work experience Benefits: * Comprehensive Health benefits * 401k Matching * Workspace benefits for your home office * Personal & Professional development funds * Family Planning Support * Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off * 4+ months paid Parental Leave * Paid Volunteer time off Benefits: * Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support * Family Planning Support * Gender-Affirming Care * Mental Health & Coaching Benefits * Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match * Private Medical and Dental Scheme * Income Replacement Programs * Bike to Work scheme * Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off * Generous Paid Parental Leave #LI-Hybrid #LI-NT1 #LI-onsite In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors. Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.