Global Network Growth Group Director

Company: VML
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this Growth Group Director role, you act as a senior, hands-on growth operator who moves live opportunities forward, structuring early signals into credible pursuits. You’ll be client-facing, shaping work and narratives for ES capabilities, while coordinating with senior leaders and delivery teams. You drive momentum across opportunities, turning ambiguity into actionable plans and building a scalable growth system. This role blends consulting, technology, and agency experience to unlock revenue potential.

Pay / Benefits

  • hybrid work model with four days in office
  • accommodations or flexibility during interview process

Responsibilities

  • Identify ES growth signals across priority accounts and direct opportunities, applying commercial judgment to assess need, relevance, value, access, urgency, and win potential
  • Develop opportunity briefs, problem statements, stakeholder maps, discovery questions, value hypotheses and pursuit narratives for senior leaders
  • Support discovery meetings, workshops, pitch prep, proposal direction and post-meeting actions to maintain momentum
  • Apply knowledge across media, creative, CRM, commerce, CX, data, AI, platforms, marketing tech, or operating model transformation to add real client value
  • Collaborate with ES capability leaders, solution experts, commercial leads and delivery SMEs to define activation paths and briefing needs
  • Turn ambiguous inputs into high-quality, client-ready materials suitable for senior conversations
  • Capture patterns, proof points and market themes to improve a growing, repeatable process for pursuing opportunities
  • Maintain a current view of opportunity value, stage, next action, risk and required decisions, treating commercial discipline as the operating standard

Key requirements

  • 10–12+ years across strategic account management, growth, consulting, technology transformation, digital transformation, client services, enterprise sales, media, creative, data, CRM, commerce or CX
  • Direct experience leading client conversations, discovery, proposal development, pitch preparation or pursuit acceleration
  • Practical experience navigating how large organizations fund and buy transformation, technology, marketing or customer experience work
  • Ability to move across complex internal organizations and coordinate multiple capabilities around a client opportunity
  • Background in consulting firm, agency network, technology company, systems integrator, digital transformation firm, media network, WPP operating company or enterprise client environment
  • collaborative
  • practical
  • proactive
  • strategic account management
  • growth
  • consulting

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Posted: October 1st, 2026