New Business Manager

Overview

In this role you drive end-to-end pitches and RFI/RFP responses for multi-market opportunities, aligning client objectives with WPP Production’s offerings. You work closely with cross-functional teams to structure, write, and deliver compelling submissions on time. You’ll shape strategy and content, ensuring cohesive, on-brand narratives that win business. This is a fast-paced, hybrid role in a global Growth Team with strong scope for career progression and exposure to large-scale opportunities.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• global career opportunities
• collaborative, borderless environment
• access to diverse projects
• AI-enabled tools to amplify creativity
• career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of small to mid-size RFI/RFPs with timelines, milestones, and outputs
• Build and manage project plans, coordinating stakeholders across teams, markets and disciplines
• Drive day-to-day momentum, resolving delivery challenges quickly
• Shape strategy and structure of RFP responses to align with client objectives and offer
• Write and edit client-facing content for clarity and narrative alignment
• Coordinate contributors to ensure high-quality, on-time inputs
• Ensure outputs are cohesive, on-brand and high quality
• Brief and coordinate assets such as video, pitch collateral and presentations
• Contribute to development of case studies, credentials and reusable content
• Identify opportunities to improve pitch processes and efficiency
• Mentor New Business Executives to raise standards
• Represent WPP Production in internal and external meetings as Growth Team ambassador

Key requirements

• Proven experience delivering pitches or proposals within a creative or agency environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication with clear, compelling responses
• Project management capability with plans, timelines, RACIs, and multi-stakeholder coordination
• Highly organized, proactive with strong ownership
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Ability to work with stakeholders across teams, levels and markets
• Commercial awareness of how pitches translate to revenue and growth
• Understanding of the advertising production landscape and marketing ecosystem
• Strategic thinker who translates input into clear structures and narratives
• Curious and engaged with innovation, emerging tech and trends
• Ambitious, driven to win new business
• Collaborative, works well with others to deliver quality
• Strong knowledge of PowerPoint, Word, Excel and collaboration tools

• collaborative
• ambitious
• curious
• PowerPoint
• Word
• Excel

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