Global Network Growth Group Director

About the Position

Global Network Growth Group Director

London, United Kingdom

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About the Company

VML is a global creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands that drive growth. Guided by a Human First philosophy, VML is known for its innovative work for brands and consistently ranks among the world’s leading creative companies, including the WARC Creative 100. VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore.

VML is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and expert strategic counsel.

For more information, please visit www.vml.com and follow along on LinkedIn #WeAreVML.

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The Role

As the Growth Group Director, you will be a senior hands-on growth operator whose value is measured in progress: moving live opportunities forward, giving early signals the structure and commercial credibility they need to become real ES pursuits, and keeping momentum alive when it would otherwise stall.

You will be client-facing, independently capable, and expected to shape work. You will develop opportunity materials, run disciplined triage, accelerate live pursuits, and connect client needs directly to ES capabilities. You will work with MDs, EDs, GCLs, agencies, client teams, and ES capability leaders not as an internal resource to be directed, but as a skilled growth operator who can manage senior stakeholder interactions, build opportunity narratives, and hold your own in the conversations that determine whether an opportunity moves or dies.

This role is a strong fit for experienced operators who bring a blend of consulting, technology, agency, client services, strategic account, sales, or transformation experience.

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Responsibilities

Find & Filter:

• Work with senior growth leaders to identify ES growth signals across priority accounts, WPP relationships, client teams, market triggers, and direct enterprise opportunities, bringing your own initiative and commercial instinct to the search rather than simply following direction.
• Assess whether an opportunity has a clear client need, ES relevance, value potential, stakeholder access, urgency, winnability, and a credible next action. You bring enough commercial judgment to give an honest, well-reasoned recommendation rather than a neutral summary.
• Develop opportunity briefs, problem statements, stakeholder maps, account views, discovery questions, value hypotheses, and pursuit narratives, producing materials that are precise, client-ready, and immediately usable by the senior leaders and client stakeholders who need them.

Shape & Accelerate:

• Support discovery meetings, workshops, pitch preparation, proposal direction, client-ready points of view, and immediate follow-up actions, keeping pursuits moving at the pace they require and ensuring nothing loses momentum in the gaps between conversations.
• Apply knowledge across one or more of media, creative, CRM, commerce, CX, content, data, AI, platforms, marketing technology, managed services, or operating model transformation, with enough depth to add genuine value in client conversations rather than simply providing context.
• Work with ES capability leaders, solution experts, commercial leads, partner teams, and delivery SMEs to clarify the opportunity and define the required activation path, knowing who to bring in, when to bring them, and how to brief them well.

Clarify & Build:

• Turn ambiguous inputs into clear, high-quality material that can support senior client and internal conversations. The standard is not that the material exists, but that it is good enough to use without revision.
• Capture patterns, proof points, cases, and market themes that help the broader team move faster on similar opportunities, contributing to a growth system that gets sharper with everything you learn and produce.
• Maintain a clear, current view of opportunity value, stage, next action, conversion risk, and required decision points, treating commercial discipline not as reporting overhead but as the operating standard of the role.

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Requirements

• Experienced client-facing operator with the maturity to work directly with senior internal and client stakeholders.
• Comfortable in ambiguity and able to structure problems and move work forward without waiting for full instruction.
• Commercially minded and outcome-focused, with a genuine instinct for what has real revenue potential and what should be qualified out before it consumes energy it will not justify.
• Strong writer and thinker who can translate complex transformation topics into sharp, usable opportunity materials.
• Collaborative, practical, and proactive, able to work across GCLs, agencies, consulting, technology, platform, and ES capability teams without needing a formal authority structure to create momentum or a complete brief to begin.

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Skills

Core Skills

• Growth Strategy
• Client Engagement
• Opportunity Development
• Commercial Judgement
• Transformation

Secondary Skills

• Consulting
• Technology
• Agency
• Client Services
• Strategic Account Management

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We Offer

• Hybrid work approach with teams in the office an average of four days a week.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• A supportive and inclusive work environment.

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About the Company

VML is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to 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.

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