Head of Growth

Role: Head of Growth

You:
As the Head of Growth, you will be responsible for proactively defining and delivering new opportunities and revenue streams to drive growth within Virtue. You will have a love of working with senior internal and external stakeholders to drive business success. This is a leadership role reporting into the Managing Director within the region. This role is responsible for proposing and coordinating the agreed strategies for new business growth. You will be a valuable business partner to our regional team, spotting opportunities and assessing their suitability for the markets in which we work.

Responsibilities:

1. Manage regional pitches and support local new business pitches across our markets.
2. Collaborate across regions to bring the best of our teams across disciplines to pitch.
3. Support active prospecting in the region, establishing good momentum and a sense of ownership in the markets.
4. Manage the delivery of creds, RFIs, RFPs, pitch presentations, and all pitch collateral, with a keen eye for detail.
5. Seamless pitch project management covering all aspects from kick-off to close, building and governing workstreams to ensure all deadlines are met and work is of the highest possible standard.
6. You will enjoy seeking and making new connections and get a kick out of generating new opportunities.
7. Can-do attitude and an adept ability to manage multiple spinning plates that come from managing new business in an ambitious business.
8. To deliver the strategy for sustained, purposeful, and profitable growth.
9. Help define and shape the new business strategy.
10. Manage and lead a team to create proactive strategic POVs for chemistry meetings, working very closely with the Strategy team.
11. Represent and promote the interests of Virtue with potential clients.
12. Ability to nurture, lead, and grow a business development team at varying levels (in due course).
13. Work closely with the Marketing and Comms team to promote our work across our social channels, newsletter, proactive client outreach email/showcase of our work, etc.
14. Partner with global leads across New Business as a complementary effort with Global Growth Lead.

You have these:

1. Significant experience in Business Development and growth roles, creating and driving opportunities and exceeding targets.
2. Extensive network of contacts in the region as a base to further develop and generate a pipeline of projects and conversions.
3. Experience as a high-performing Business Development lead or similar growth role.
4. Experience leading the business development function in a high-paced creative agency environment.
5. Ability to anticipate project needs and discern work priorities.
6. Flawless English language ability with outstanding communication and presentation skills.
7. Excellent business acumen and interpersonal skills.
8. Experience and comfort in a fast-paced environment, with an ability to anticipate and respond quickly to change.
9. Ability to operate in an ambiguous environment or unstructured situations with a high degree of autonomy.
10. People-oriented with ability to motivate and build teams.

We'd love if you also have these:

1. Additional language skills are an advantage.