Full Time Job
Head Of Growth
Vice Media Group
- Paid
- Full Time
Job Description
Role x You:As the Head of Growth, you will be responsible for proactively defining and delivering new opportunities and revenue streams to drive growth within Virtue. You will have a love of working with senior internal and external stakeholders to drive business success. This is a leadership role reporting into the Managing Director within the region. This role is responsible for proposing and co-ordinating the agreed strategies for new business growth. You will be a valuable business partner to our regional team, spotting opportunities and assessing their suitability for the markets in which we work.
Responsibilities:
• Manage regional pitches and support local new business pitches across our markets.
• Collaborate across regions to bring the best of our teams across disciplines to pitch
• Support active prospecting in region, establishing good momentum and a sense of ownership in the markets
• Manage the delivery of creds, RFIs, RFPs, pitch presentations and all pitch collateral, with a keen eye for detail,
• Seamless pitch project management covering all aspects from kick-off to close, building and governing workstreams to ensure all deadlines are met and work is of the highest possible standard
• You will enjoy seeking and making new connections and get a kick out of generating new opportunities.
• Can-do attitude and an adept ability to manage the consistently multiple spinning plates that come from managing new business in an ambitious business.
• To deliver the strategy for sustained, purposeful, and profitable growth
• Help define and shape the new business strategy
• Manage and lead a team to create proactive strategic POVs for chemistry meetings, working very closely with the Strategy team.
• Represent and promote the interests of Virtue with potential clients
• Ability to nurture, lead, and grow a business development team at varying levels (in due course)
• Work closely with the Marketing and Comms team to promote our work across our social channels, newsletter, proactive client outreach email/showcase of our work, etc
• Partner with global leads across New Business as a complementary effort with Global Growth Lead.
You have these:
• Significant experience in Business Development and growth roles, creating and driving opportunities and exceeding targets
• Extensive network of contacts in the region as a base to further develop and generate a pipeline of projects and conversions
• Experience as a high-performing Business Development lead or similar growth role
• Experience leading the business development function in a high-paced creative agency environment
• Ability to anticipate project needs and discern work priorities
• You have flawless English language ability with outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent business acumen, and interpersonal skills
• Experience and comfort in a fast-paced environment, with an ability to anticipate and respond quickly to change
• Ability to operate in an ambiguous environment or unstructured situations with a high degree of autonomy.
• People-oriented with ability to motivate and build teams
We'd love if you also have these:
• Additional language skills are an advantage
• Ability to travel as and when required
Working at VICE:
We want to find people who believe in our mission and goals and feel inspired to grow while they're here, rather than someone who checks the boxes but isn't invested. We encourage you to apply and show us what you've got.
VICE Media prioritizes the voices, ideas and people that other media companies miss. We believe that innovation is a direct result of diverse, inclusive cultures so we don't just ''tolerate'' difference s , we celebrate it and see it as essential to our staff, culture, and business. To learn more read the VICE Guide to VICE.
Candidates, please note that if you are contacted by anyone with an email other than @vice.com purporting to be recruiting on behalf of Vice Media, it is not legitimate, and you should not engage.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro40j1-44-200-94-150-42 in your application.
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Vice Media Group
VICE Media Group is the world’s largest independent youth media company. Launched in 1994,VICE has offices in 35 cities across the globe with a focus on five key businesses: VICE.com, an award-winning international network of digital content; VICE STUDIOS, a feature film and television production studio; VICE TV, an Emmy-winning international television network; a Peabody award-winning NEWS division with the most Emmy-awarded nightly news broadcast; and VIRTUE, a global, full-service creative agency with 25 offices around the world.