As the Business Development Director, you will work closely with all Functional Leaders in identifying, developing and implementing a Business Development Strategy that pulls from and highlights our core strengths. This should generate internal and external buzz around key capabilities that appropriately align us with industries and clients that we want to work with as strategic advertising/marketing partners.
Success for this position will be measured by the employee’s ability to develop a process and culture that drives New Business acquisition and position us as continued leaders within the industry.
An ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience developing and managing the business development process along with general advertising/marketing experience.
Candidate experience should include:
8+ years experience in Advertising/Marketing/Business Development
Experience developing/fostering a successful Business Development Process/Culture
Experience developing targeting marketing campaigns to drive industry buzz
Experience in leading people through and developing responses to the RFP process
Experience leading Pitch Teams
A successful track record of building a New Business pipeline
Roles and Responsibilities include:
Create and implement a new business process
Create Buzz and Attraction around the SSLA brand
Source, Prospect and attract new clients
Build relationships with search consultants as means to getting SSLA into the right RFPs/Pitches
Build and maintain relationships across the Saatchi network, with client partners and internal stakeholders
Lead internal new business team on all RFPs/Pitches
Work closely with Leadership team to identify and pull appropriate resources as needed to address Business Development needs.
Other duties as assigned.
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