Senior Group Director, Client Advice & Management

Position Summary

The Senior Group Director, Client Advice Management serves as a senior strategic leader across a portfolio of complex client businesses, partnering with integrated teams across Communications Design, Partnerships, Analytics, Strategy, and Activation disciplines. While this role sits within Client Advice & Management, the ideal candidate brings strong expertise in performance media with a solid understanding of channels such as paid social, programmatic display and video, CTV, paid search, content syndication, digital direct and emerging digital media solutions. This individual should be comfortable leading strategic conversations across channels, disciplines, and specialty teams while helping clients connect marketing investments to measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Integrated Media Leadership

• Lead integrated, cross-channel media and communications strategy, bringing a holistic perspective across disciplines, and ensuring recommendations are aligned to client business objectives and measurable outcomes

• Align cross-functional teams and specialty practices around cohesive recommendations and business objectives

• Champion testing, learning agendas, measurement frameworks, and innovation opportunities

• Identify emerging trends, capabilities, and strategic opportunities that create value for clients

• Connect media investment, audience and targeting strategies and performance results to broader business outcomes including awareness, lead generation, customer acquisition and marketing effectiveness

• Strategic Client Leadership

• Serve as a senior strategic advisor to client stakeholders

• Partner with global and local account, communications and performance leads day to day to identify scalable best practices, share learnings across markets, balance global consistency with regional nuances and shape long-term business and communications/media strategies

• Lead executive-level conversations related to marketing effectiveness, media strategy, audience planning, measurement, testing, innovation, and business growth

• Identify opportunities that extend beyond the immediate brief and advance client business objectives

• Provide proactive consultation and thought leadership across client businesses

• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders

• Agency Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing teams

• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages curiosity, innovation, and accountability

• Serve as a senior representative of the agency internally and externally

• Share category, industry, and client knowledge across teams

• Help shape agency best practices and integrated ways of working

• Champion a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement

Desired Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of experience in integrated media, communications planning, marketing, advertising, consulting, or related disciplines

• 6+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing teams

• Strong integrated media background spanning multiple digital channels (paid social, programmatic, search, video, partnerships)

• Experience leading strategic planning, media strategy, and client consultation engagements

• Experience working within complex, matrixed organizations and stakeholder environments

• Proven ability to influence senior client stakeholders and executive audiences

• Experience developing measurement strategies, testing frameworks, and learning agendas

• Strong presentation, writing, and executive communication skills

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, solve complex business challenges, and drive alignment across diverse teams

• Performance media experience strongly preferred

• B2B marketing experience preferred

• Global experience preferred