Digital Business Director

About the Role:

We are looking for a Business Director with strong cross-channel and planning experience to work across the Intuit QuickBooks and Intuit Mailchimp businesses. As a Business Director at Manning Gottlieb OMD you are the face of the agency to our clients and the driver of great work and business success on your accounts. This role is an opportunity to work on one of the largest and most important accounts within the agency.

Intuit is a $100bn American fintech business that provides software and services that enable small and medium sized businesses to thrive. There are two separate pillars of the business in the UK QuickBooks and Mailchimp. QuickBooks provides software solutions for effective financial management of businesses including tax returns invoicing payments payroll and timesheets. Mailchimp is a marketing automation and email platform helping businesses to better engage with customers and drive increased sales.

Both businesses run full-funnel multi-media campaigns from brand through to performance so this is a great opportunity for a Business Director to make a significant positive impact across a breadth of different areas!

The client team across the Intuit brands includes 3 Account Directors plus Manager Senior Exec Executive and Assistant roles who will report directly on specific projects and need coordinating to deliver excellence in client service planning and commercial consistency.

Delivering Great Work; we believe great work helps us to build client love and energise our teams so its crucial that we are always looking for new and progressive ways of delivering it. You are the driving force behind this setting the standard and ensuring our clients constantly see us as a brave agency that will challenge them. You are comfortable using and briefing others to use data to uncover new solutions and engaged in new developments in the media landscape. Your responsibilities would cover all channels although there is a healthy skew towards digital particularly on Mailchimp so experience working on a digitally orientated client would be highly desirable.

A Team Player; getting the most out of an amazing team. You create a culture of sharing and collaboration throughout the team; championing those who contribute and the impact it makes. By developing and supporting your team they will be your best weapon in delivering amazing work and commercial success. Showing them you have their back and helping to drive positive change in each of them.

A Client Leader; you are an indispensable extension of the clients team. Developing a partnership with key stakeholders that enables us to understand and anticipate their needs to further strengthen the relationship and the outputs.

Commercial Acumen; You are responsible for the commercials on your accounts and will have a clear understanding of the contract to create a business plan to deliver growth. You take the lead on forecasting and work closely with investment.

Supported By Us; Yours is a big job but its not something you have to manage alone. Just as you manage the team who report into you we also want you to manage upwards to the senior support in the agency. You will report up into a Head Of B2B and a Board Director keeping them up to speed on key developments and proactively involving them at key moments to help tackle client challenges and help the agency look amazing. We will play an active part of your development journey and be accountable for helping your reach your goals.

If that sounds exciting then wed love to hear from you

About the Agency:

MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.

Since joining Omnicom networks OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998 we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches unprecedented insight specialism security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkboxs TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.

With over 500 employees working across some of the UKs leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership Virgin Media O2 British Airways Specsavers HM Government LNER Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.

So true to our ethos we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate honest and professional whilst also being stimulating imaginative and inspirational.

We want people who are great to work with fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other our clients our media partners and doing great work.

In return we provide an amazingly collaborative culture where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training development and support in the industry; so much so that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.

Flexible Working

At Omnicom Media Group we are committed to supporting flexibility for our peoplewhile fostering collaboration innovation and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office two working remotely) to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 17:30 but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day whether thats in the office or working remotely. For example you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.

We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.

Be Your Best

We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable you can email us confidentially at to let us know how we can support you.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion at OMG

At OMG our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects todays society where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued heard and well-represented.

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