Director, Brand Leadership
Job Description
This leader will report to the VP, Client Experiences and lead a team of Barkley partners. This partner can
purposefully define client business needs while leading a team to smoothly and flawlessly deliver creative ideas that
will impact their business. This person’s passion for the industry won’t let them rest until problems are solved, work is
delivered, ideas are sold-in, teams are empowered, and clients are impressed.
The ideal candidate will carefully balance the art of strategic business knowledge with skillfully managing a team to
deliver creative campaigns. This partner is an expert at their client’s business and managing the relationship. They
also recognize the importance of accurate and timely details with clear, concise communications and the ability to
prioritize the right information to lead the team forward. This person is skilled at not only providing client feedback, but
also at interpreting it for the team and distilling it to the essence of what is needed and will impact the work.
As a leader on the team, they are highly responsive, responsible and a crucial resource for capturing and delivering
information that will be the foundation for great ideas. This partner is a manager of people who is responsible for
developing talent, nurturing an individual’s career, and outlining a path for growth. When asked, a partner at this level
has a thoughtful POV on the business, the competition, the client’s needs, and the purpose of the work the agency is
delivering.
purposefully define client business needs while leading a team to smoothly and flawlessly deliver creative ideas that
will impact their business. This person’s passion for the industry won’t let them rest until problems are solved, work is
delivered, ideas are sold-in, teams are empowered, and clients are impressed.
The ideal candidate will carefully balance the art of strategic business knowledge with skillfully managing a team to
deliver creative campaigns. This partner is an expert at their client’s business and managing the relationship. They
also recognize the importance of accurate and timely details with clear, concise communications and the ability to
prioritize the right information to lead the team forward. This person is skilled at not only providing client feedback, but
also at interpreting it for the team and distilling it to the essence of what is needed and will impact the work.
As a leader on the team, they are highly responsive, responsible and a crucial resource for capturing and delivering
information that will be the foundation for great ideas. This partner is a manager of people who is responsible for
developing talent, nurturing an individual’s career, and outlining a path for growth. When asked, a partner at this level
has a thoughtful POV on the business, the competition, the client’s needs, and the purpose of the work the agency is
delivering.
Responsibilities
- Decisive, critical resource, highly responsive - Leader for the core team
- Expert client relationship management
- Ability to follow processes yet pivot based on client needs
- Proactive/anticipates and voices client needs
- Strategic thought leadership - tied to client business
- Collaborates with cross-agency partners and internal cross-functional team
- Client and competitive knowledge
- Applies whole brand thinking
- Runs independently
- Ability to impact the work
- Balance details with big picture
- Manages budgets and billing
- Manages direct reports and their personal growth
Qualifications
- Experience building and executing strategic business plans
- Experience building and executing growth marketing plans
- Experience inspiring, delivering and selling great creative
- Experience mentoring, developing and promoting talent
- Experience operationalizing and expanding contracts
- Experience developing work scopes and staffing plans
- Experience budgeting, forecasting and reporting revenue
- A bias for action
Barkley’s Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
- We believe being radically diverse and inclusive is the key to becoming one of the world’s great creative idea companies. By embracing everything that makes our partners who they are and what makes them unique to the world around them, we create the conditions and capacity to help creative, original thinking thrive.
- Barkley is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging as part of our corporate strategic goals, supported by a formal DEI+B program, Employee Resource Groups, Director of Diversity leadership and agency commitment to The Brand Lab.
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