Managing Partner, Wavemaker Play

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom Wavemaker Full time

**Managing Partner**
**, Wavemaker Play**

**About Wavemaker Play**:

- Wavemaker Play is the entertainment division of Wavemaker UK. It includes Audible, Paramount Theatrical, Paramount Plus, MTV, Pluto, Channel 5, _
- Ubisoft,_
- and Bally’s_
- ._
- _
- Our clients touch every aspect of popular culture, and we help them supercharge their cultural traction through _
- our unrivalled_
- knowledge of _
- the_
- audience, _
- our_
- understanding of how culture moves through the media ecosystem, and _
- our_
- ability to _
- identify _
- the moments we can convert content into subscriptions._

**About the role***:
Are you passionate about clients and their business, leading teams to create unrivalled work that grows our client’s business and builds long term relationships with them?

Wavemaker UK is looking for an ambitious Managing Partner to join our Client Leadership Community — the voice of our clients in the agency.

As the voice of the client across the agency, we’re focused on ensuring our clients have their best agency experience during their time with Wavemaker.

We’re looking for someone who can inspire clients and teams to create unrivalled work, help define the ways of working across the agency that deliver the best client experiences, and in turn grow our relationships with existing and potential new clients.

**In this role, you will**:
Be responsible for the output delivered to the client across all contact points.

You will have a deep understanding of all elements of a client’s business, the category and industry in which they operate and use this knowledge to help deliver the client vision for growth.

Working with all specialists you will be able to connect with stakeholders across the client’s business, who may sit outside of your day-to-day team.

You will understand where the client sits in the client lifecycle and develop a plan for appropriate connection and contacts across the agency outside of the day to day.

**Drive vision collaboration and alignment**
- Engage and motivate a broad set of stakeholders across the agency, client and industry to deliver the client vision.
- Work with specialist teams to build client roadmaps in areas outside of media comms e.g. data, digital, effectiveness.
- Have a deep understanding of the client lifecycle - and anticipate client needs appropriate to that relationship stage.

**Recognise**
**and convert opportunities.**
- Identify opportunities for growth outside of the core day to day connections with the client.
- Explore and implement new commercial model and product opportunities to drive revenue growth.
- Identify ‘gaps’ within the Wavemaker offer that can support client and agency growth through product development.

**Commercial and operational excellence**:

- Understanding of client profitability requirements and the ability to manage this with clients and with the team, building new teams structures with the commercial team as required
- Work with the matrix to resolve any operational issues and redesign processes as necessary.
- Works with Lead to ensure accurate forecasting of current and growth opportunities is reported.

**Lead**
**new**
**Business.**
- Take lead role on mid-size pitches, nurturing and developing the team, and ensuring the best of Wavemaker is delivered
- Proactively seek out new business opportunities through personal and industry contacts

**Core skills**:
Core skills for this role can be found in the Client Leadership specialist skills framework.

At Managing Partner level, you are expected to operate within the ‘Advanced’ and ‘Expert’ criteria. In summary, the core skills required include:

- **
Client Leadership experience**
- You _
- have an advanced _
- understand_
- ing _
- of _
- how an agency operates, its positioning_
- , its _
- product offerings_
- , _
- alongside an_
- advanced_
- understanding of _
- the broader group offering and specific businesses within it and how they can benefit your _
- client’s_
- business_
- ._
- _
- In _
- addition,_
- you will have a _
- deep_
- understanding of your client’s business and category beyond marketing_
- , sharing that passion across the agency whilst _
- nurtur_
- ing_
- others to build their knowledge_
- to the same level_
- ._
- **Problem solving**
- You will have an ability to solve problems_
- _
- and utilise data and insight _
- effectively_
- . _
- You ensure any problem solving is mutually beneficial to all parties _
- and can, in the main, act independently, engaging key stakeholders across the agency accordingly._
- **
Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships**
- You will be a trusted adviser for senior marketeers within client organisations, understand how and when to engage core specialisms across Wavemaker, collaborate more widely with partner agencies and industry partners_
- . You have an ability to _
- advise senior clients_
- , navigating them through complex business challenges, and when necessary, _
- tran

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