At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead new business growth and build relationships with key decision-makers.
- Company: Dynamic performance media agency with a strong international presence.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, commission, private healthcare, and flexible working options.
- Other info: Join a collaborative culture with direct access to senior leadership.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a growing agency and shape its future direction.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in new business at a digital or performance agency.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 65000 £ per year.
Ready to take ownership of growth at an ambitious, independent performance agency? An established, independent brand and performance media agency is looking for a New Business Director to take ownership of new business and play a pivotal role in its next stage of growth. This is a senior, commercially focused role for someone who knows how to open doors, build relationships and win significant new business, not someone waiting for leads to land in their inbox.
The agency is an established, profitable and growing independent business with an international presence and a strong reputation across performance marketing, SEO, data, technology and AI. Its client portfolio includes major household brands, alongside ambitious businesses across sectors such as SaaS, education, entertainment and multi-site consumer brands. The agency combines strategic thinking, performance media and proprietary technology to deliver measurable growth for its clients, giving its sales team a genuinely compelling proposition to take to market.
This is a pure new-business leadership role, with responsibility for generating and converting net-new opportunities and delivering a minimum £500k annual new business revenue target.
- Build and own a high-quality new business pipeline across target brands and sectors.
- Develop creative outbound campaigns across LinkedIn, email and CRM.
- Identify and build relationships with senior brand, marketing and commercial decision-makers.
- Partner with marketing on campaigns, content, thought leadership and events that generate demand.
- Represent the agency at major industry events and help grow its presence within the market.
- Help package and position evolving technology and service propositions.
- Consistently deliver against new business revenue targets and report pipeline performance to senior leadership.
You’ll ideally have 5+ years’ experience in new business within a digital, performance or media agency environment. Most importantly, you’ll have a demonstrable track record of generating your own opportunities and winning business. We’re particularly interested in people who have worked in independent or mid-sized performance agencies and understand how to compete for business against the larger networks.
A proven door opener with a strong senior network. Comfortable selling to senior marketing and commercial stakeholders. Commercially sharp, intelligent and naturally curious about a prospect’s business. Someone who can turn a brief into a compelling commercial story. Experienced using LinkedIn, email and CRM tools to prospect effectively. Comfortable discussing performance marketing, SEO, PPC, analytics and technology. Hungry to win and motivated by both commercial reward and professional impact.
You don't need to be a technical specialist, but you do need to understand the performance marketing landscape and be able to credibly sell an agency proposition built around media, data, technology and AI. You're currently working in new business at an independent or mid-sized performance agency and feel ready to own a bigger commercial mandate. You have the relationships, confidence and commercial instinct to create opportunities rather than simply manage an existing book of business. And you want to join an agency where you'll have direct access to senior leadership and a genuine voice in how the business grows.
£65,000 base salary + 3.5% commission on new business. The role is based in London, with a hybrid working pattern combining office and home working. You'll also receive a strong benefits package, including private healthcare, pension and flexible working, alongside a genuinely social and collaborative agency culture.
The business is already profitable, established and growing, with an international footprint, strong client relationships and an increasingly differentiated technology proposition. You'll help shape how the agency goes to market, which clients it targets, how its capabilities are positioned and ultimately how the business grows. If you're a proven agency new-business leader who wants the opportunity, and the earning potential, to make a genuine commercial impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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