At Spark Foundry, our purpose is clear: we bring HEAT to brands. HEAT stands for Higher Engagement, Affinity & Transactions. In other words, we get consumers to pay more attention, care more deeply about the brand, and buy more of its products and services.

Our Sparklers “bring their heat” - their unique superpowers and individual backgrounds – with them to work every day, and that heat is what has driven the continued growth of our culture and our brand.

Spark Foundry is not just a media agency. To our clients, we are true partners. This is not only a huge benefit to the brands we work with, but to our people as they expand their skills and expertise. We offer clients the best of both worlds: a startup spirit and a powerhouse soul. Our spirit embraces our ability to deliver high-touch service, boutique insights, bold creativity, and ever-evolving product and process, just like a startup. And our powerhouse soul comes to life through our unique marketplace access, best-in-class partnerships, and unparalleled buying clout to deliver our clients' increased value.

We believe a fulfilling and rewarding personal life inspires fresh thinking and the ability to create great work.

Role Overview:  
To accelerate our growth, we are looking for a strategic, proactive, and well-organized leader to drive new thinking and deliver truly innovative work. Reporting into the President of Growth and Marketing, this senior level role will be responsible for consultant engagement, pitch narrative and response, and leading a team to deliver on aggressive growth goals via new, organic business acquisition. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead, drive, and deliver the product, practice, and process of business development and growth for the Spark Foundry network: 

• Lead and orchestrate pitch engagement  

• Strong understanding of media strategy, investment, and optimization across all types of media 

• Partner with executive leadership to build and activate pitch teams and determine pitch casting 

• Oversee the development of early-stage pitch engagement responses including written RFIs, RFPs, and credentials content  

• Guide and enable pitch coordination including timelines, checkpoints, accountabilities, deliverables, design, and production needs 

• Drive Pitch team to develop the “work” within a pitch including the proposition, strategic approaches, media plans, and commercials 

• Manage, coach, and develop business development and Growth team talent and direct reports 

• Establish strong, collaborative connections with client and team members to work seamlessly together.  

• Build and strengthen integration between the growth practice and the broader global agency network 

• Successful leadership experience - 20+ years in the media, marketing, or consulting fields 

• Strong communication skills – Communicate clearly, concisely, adapted for audience, with a focus on soliciting feedback and driving consensus 

• Ability to anticipate - Proactive self-starter with ability to understand what is needed and drive against it 

• Excellent management skills - Work comfortably and effectively in fast shifting, high pressure, and constantly iterating environments and situations 

• Build meaningful relationships - Establish productive working relationships, facilitate consensus, empower people, and inject a spirit of inclusiveness 

• Bold and inventive – Bring/Create new models, new approaches, new stories, new capabilities 

• Drive simplification – Ability to simplify complex concepts, constructs, and language  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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