Business Development Manager
- Full-time
Company Description
The Publicis Media Global Business development team is a tight knit group of superstar performers with a passion for collaboration with all Publicis Media brands to deliver world class pitches and accelerate growth for Publicis Media globally. As the growth engine for Publicis Media, the business development team is recognised as the leading source for best practice across PublicisMedia
Job Description
Produce winning work
- Supports the development of pitch presentations: Critiquing and editing the media plan content, brainstorming big ideas, development of the pitch “story”
- Owns all written submissions, including the interpretation of the brief, organizing a team to answer questions, chasing responses, and editing all responses
- Works closely with the Operations team to communicate all pitch needs (presentation styling, place cards, name tents, etc.)
Lead teams
- Supports a first-class pitch management process from kick-off to post-pitch contact strategy on mid-size global or multi-market pitches ($5-10m+ revenue)
- Close collaboration with network teams to ensure a consistent new business strategy is deployed on multi-market pitches and major local pitches
People Management
- Manages and motivates the pitch team: Keeps track of key players and deliverables & ensures that everyone is on-task
- Establishes solid, mutually beneficial relationships with internal leaders (CEOs, MDs etc.) from priority markets
Maintain excellence
- Oversees the development & maintenance of the content warehouse with the Operations team to access best practise materials and provide in-market support on key local pitches (when required)
- Constantly reviews new business team’s ways of working to identify innovation opportunities to increase speed and efficiency throughout the network
Qualifications
- 2-4+years’ senior experience in media planning/strategy, integrated marketing or similar
- Able to include periods of travel as part of regular routine
- Has a strong understanding of the marketing/communications/media sphere
- Values finding better ways of doing things
- Flexible; ability to adapt to changing priorities and multiple tasks
- Believes no ask is too big and no detail too small
- Ability to perform in a fast paced and changing environment, under pressure to deadline
- Possesses well-honed project management skills –to ensure accurate delivery of projects on schedule
- Incredible attention to detail and double checking data –accuracy is critical
- Understands the value of anticipation and proactivity and actively seeks opportunities to learn, grow, and produce