Growth Director, New Business

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is focused on driving new business growth across M+C Saatchi North America. You will work directly with the Chief Growth Officer and Growth Directors across disciplines to identify, pursue, and convert opportunities that align with the agency's strategic priorities.

Your primary objective will be to nurture and build a growth pipeline, manage the business development process from start to finish — from intelligence-gathering to pitch processes and final outputs — ensuring that every pursuit reflects M+C Saatchi's integrated, earned-first approach to creative solutions and commitment to Cultural Power.

While you will collaborate with marketing counterparts and drive some marketing initiatives, this role is primarily focused on business development.

As part of the Regional Growth team and the broader M+C Saatchi North America growth community, this role will focus on building and nurturing new business relationships for our Passions specialism (M+C Saatchi Sport + Entertainment) — with a focus on culture-led brands across sport, entertainment, and influencers. You'll help connect brands to audiences through the things they love — from creator partnerships and fan experiences to earned-first storytelling that fuels participation and impact. Experience or a genuine interest in culture, creators, and consumer brands is a strong plus.

We're also looking for someone who can flex across categories — leading or supporting pitches beyond these core areas, such as purpose-led campaigns or B2B initiatives, particularly during high-volume periods when cross-regional collaboration is key.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Proactively identify and cultivate relationships with brand and marketing decision-makers, intermediaries, and partner agencies to build a robust and healthy new business pipeline.
• Manage the end-to-end new business pitch process, including resourcing for new business needs.
• Maintain and continue to add to core growth materials — including creds, case studies, and pitch materials.
• Manage and contribute to the new business pipeline, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and proactive planning in partnership with the Growth team.
• Collaborate with regional growth + marketing teams on regional workstreams.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• 8–10 years of experience in new business or growth roles within an agency environment.
• Proven success in managing integrated pitch processes with multiple stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of marketing, communications, and creative industries, with strong commercial instincts.
• Strong verbal, written, and visual communication skills; an excellent presenter and writer.
• Proactive, organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience using CRM or pipeline tools (e.g., HubSpot) to manage reporting is a plus.
• Ability to travel periodically.

WHAT YOU'RE GOOD AT

• You thrive on being a true 'people person' — bringing together the right mix of talent, chemistry, and collaboration, uniting teams to deliver their best work.
• You bring optimism, resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset to every challenge.
• You foster collaboration to gather information, form ideas, and plans, and then are able to take a leadership role in moving projects forward.
• You operate with a sense of urgency and are comfortable having multiple work streams running at a time to keep up momentum and create opportunity on multiple fronts.
• You're a self-starter by nature — confident taking initiative and driving projects forward with minimal supervision — yet equally energized by being part of a collaborative team built on trust and mutual respect.
• You gain energy from seeking out, building and fostering relationships that lead to new and fruitful working relationships.
• You are passionate about M+C Saatchi's purpose and work, and believe that the sum of the parts is greater than any individual contributor.

WHAT YOU'LL GET:

We offer a competitive salary, a comprehensive employer subsidized benefits package which includes group medical, dental and vision coverage, Health Savings Account, 401k retirement plan with annual company match, employee wellness, commuter benefits and cellular phone allowance, generous paid time off and employee volunteer day to encourage social responsibility giving time to the non-profit, community service or charity of your choice. Salary is dependent on experience but ranges from: $145,000 – $165,000. All candidates must have the ability to work in the US; we are unable to sponsor any work visas for this role.

M+C Saatchi SSK as part of M+C Saatchi Group, has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture. As part of this M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please make us aware as part of your application.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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