Senior Client Manager

About us

At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move. Pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects. With 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people and the planet.

With expertise across brand strategy, brand design, brand engagement and brand effectiveness our clients across the world include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

About the role

Are you an experienced client manager who knows how to turn a brand idea into communications that connect with people?

We’re looking for a Senior Client Manager with substantial agency-side experience in campaign creation and production to lead integrated work for some of the world’s most loved drinks and CPG brands. You’ll sit at the intersection of strategy, creativity and delivery, partnering with clients, strategists, designers, creatives and production teams to take work from brief through concept, development, production, adaptation and launch.

Projects may span brand platforms, advertising, social and content, digital, OOH, retail, experiential and packaging, often across multiple markets. You’ll lead client relationships and project teams, bring clarity to complex programmes, manage scope, budgets and timelines, and ensure the work is creatively ambitious, commercially effective and delivered to the highest standard.

You’ll be trusted to bring your expertise from day one, not simply coordinate the work, but actively shape and drive it forward.

About you 

You’ll bring significant client services or account leadership experience from a brand, creative or integrated communications agency, with a proven record of leading campaigns from initial brief through to final production. You’ll understand how effective communications are created and delivered, from developing briefs and defining deliverables to working with creative teams, managing shoots and production partners, navigating approvals and coordinating multi-market adaptations. Experience across drinks, food or wider CPG/FMCG is highly desirable, ideally alongside exposure to packaging and consumer brand development.

You’ll be confident advising senior clients, presenting and selling creative ideas, challenging constructively and making sound decisions in complex or fast-moving situations. Commercially astute and highly organised, you’ll be able to manage budgets, timings, scopes, risks and stakeholders without losing sight of the creative ambition.

Crucially, you’ll bring established communications and production expertise, be comfortable working independently and have the confidence to hit the ground running within an experienced team. Curious, collaborative and calm under pressure, you’ll build trusted relationships and take genuine ownership of the work and its impact.

Why us?

We’re passionate about our people and their careers. We’ll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits. So you’ll have a chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours. We’re proud to be the world’s most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual’s Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024. You’ll get to take new projects to award-winning potential, as part of a connected team of brilliant, tenacious people right by your side and across the world.  

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

Due to the volume of applications, we unfortunately can only respond to successful candidates.

We will not accept unsolicited CVs or approaches via recruitment agencies.

 

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