Group Brand Director

Since its founding in 2009, The Many has combined technology, creativity and empathy to make stuff consumers actively seek, engage and share.

It has resulted in loads of integrated campaigns and award-winning work for social and digital, long-form and creator content, and activations.

The secret sauce: we harness the power of participation. Because if you look around you’ll notice that brands are no longer built in isolation, they’re built in participation with the many.

At The Many, the Brand team members are the business owners for our accounts and are critical members of our client-facing teams. Brand team members are not seen as “account people” but rather leaders responsible for ensuring the mutual success of our clients and our agency. The Group Brand Director brings their leadership and vision to the agency, positively impacting and transforming how the agency operates and grows. While setting the pace and tone for the Brand team and how to work across departments in an integrated way, the Group Brand Director mentors, guides, and grows the team to cultivate this integrated way of working throughout the Brand team and the agency at large in partnership with other cross-functional leaders at the Group level. Group Brand Directors develop a client/agency partnership vision for the future, thinking multiple steps ahead for all of the client relationships and scopes of work while defining what success looks like and the path to achieving it. Empowering the Brand team to effectively lead their defined vision, the Group Brand Director brings operational as well as managerial contribution to each project and account. Group Brand Directors deliver excellence by spearheading and inspiring innovative creative development and strategic outputs. Success as a Group Brand Director requires passion for the work, a preference for strategy over production, emotional intelligence, and a true sense of leadership for the entire process. As a leader at the agency and a core team member in developing and progressing the agency culture, the impact of the Group Brand Director is felt throughout the full agency- constantly transforming our business to more effectively and successfully work as an integrated internal team and grow our client relationships.

What this role is responsible for:

• Positively impact how the agency operates and grows clients organically by bringing leadership and vision
• Co-Lead and drive the vision of growth and excellence across all client partners with other Group-level, cross-discipline counterparts
• Mentor and supervise the larger Brand team to ensure excellence throughout the department
• Provide ongoing strategic thought leadership including clearly articulating a client’s core strategic challenge and lead internal teams in solving for it
• Lead and shape the development of the agency’s work including assigning responsibilities and defining accountability across the integrated teams
• Define and deliver specified outcomes for our clients and for the agency
• Coordinate and lead meetings with client and internal teams
• Ownership over client scopes, budgets, estimates, and invoices
• Proactively look for ways to expand and grow the business specifically finding opportunities to provide clients with better quality work through integrated workstreams
• Ensure all final client deliverables are on brief and completed at a high quality standard
• Responsible for overall health and profitability of clients and projects
• Establish, maintain, and grow client and agency relationships
• Guide clients to uncover business needs and objectives and identifies how to help achieve client goals
• Develop streamlined deck narratives for client presentations and clearly articulate expectations for client meetings with internal team members
• Sell ideas, concepts, and workstreams to clients with conviction, enthusiasm, confidence, and full commitment
• Organize, write, and deliver major presentations and proposals both for existing clients and for prospective clients
• Work closely with PM, Finance, and Resource Management teams to accurately forecast and evaluate resource needs and profitability for accounts
• Guide teams to thoughtful and outstanding creative output, leading the work from a strategic brand perspective, and ensuring the brand lens is across all work
• Make yourself an expert on your brands, their competitors, our industry and trends, and be known as the “go-to” person within the agency

What we need from you:

• 12+ years experience in account/brand management within a fully integrated creative agency
• Varied project and account experience within a fully integrated agency such as working on campaigns from strategy through execution, video productions, influencer marketing, social-first accounts, experiential projects, etc
• Proven track-record of organically growing client partnerships and active leadership/involvement in new business pitches
• Proven experience leading fully integrated teams and serving as the bridge between strategy, creative, and media counterparts
• Proven strategic thinker - not only the ability to think strategically and contribute to strategy-driven conversations but excels at leading strategic conversations and opportunities both with clients and internal teams
• Experience managing and leading teams
• Proven ability and enthusiasm to lead internal and client teams from a high-level strategic perspective while contributing directly to the work
• Experience balancing leading daily but never being above helping out on the small tasks
• A proactive, “get stuff done” attitude with a sense of urgency to drive projects forward while maintaining quality output
• Excellence in writing partnership proposals and scope of works
• Proven ability to get up to speed quickly and manage complex teams and client relationships
• Proven experience working on new business pitches and with new clients
• Strong organizational skills and close attention to details
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment effectively
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Strong presentation and communication skills (both written and oral)
• An entrepreneurial, solutions-oriented mindset
• Curiosity and willingness to learn, while being open to receiving feedback
• Open to working in-office three days a week

Other things we’d like to see:

• Existing, established client relationships willing to explore working with the agency
• Experience with Google Suite

Our salary range for this opportunity is $195,000 to $225,000 annually. There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package (i.e. benefits, retirement plan employer match, etc.).

The Many is more than an agency. The Many is also a movement to push the world forward and we believe that diversity is an integral part of that mission. Every identity, from your heritage to those you hold dear, your beliefs, abilities, status, ethnicity, as well as your gender (and please share your pronouns), these are the threads that strengthen our collective fabric. We want you to feel seen and supported from the get-go. If there's any way we can assist or accommodate you during the interview process, we're just a message away.