Business Director (Brand Consultancy)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid, with office attendance around four days a week

Company

hirify.global is a WPP brand consultancy that combines strategic, creative, design, experience, governance, and measurement capabilities to connect brand work with business outcomes.

What you will do

• Build long-term partnerships with clients and senior marketing and communications leaders.
• Develop a deep understanding of client businesses, cultures, competitors, financial processes, challenges, and market opportunities.
• Lead client relationships, organic revenue growth, account expansion, and new business development across hirify.global and the wider WPP network.
• Develop project proposals, scopes of work, resourcing plans, and high-quality client-facing materials.
• Lead work sessions, stakeholder groups, project teams, and multidisciplinary collaboration across regional and global teams.
• Partner with Finance on contracts, pricing, invoicing, budgets, forecasts, revenue, payment, and scope management.

Requirements

• Significant experience in a similar client leadership role, ideally in a brand or business consultancy.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior marketing and communications leaders.
• Excellent project management, relationship-building, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to develop junior and mid-level client services colleagues and lead project teams.
• Strategic thinking, intellectual agility, commercial awareness, and comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Experience delivering pitches, supporting new business activity, and growing long-term client relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model designed to support creativity, collaboration, and connection.
• Collaboration with regional and global multidisciplinary teams across the hirify.global and WPP network.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to respect, inclusion, and career progression.
• Accommodations or additional flexibility can be discussed during the interview process.