Global Digital Growth Director

Company Description: With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the centre of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With more than 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, we are the flagship Publicis Media agency that uses our ‘Power of One’ business model, with teams that span multiple disciplines across clients such as Aldi, P&G, Primark, Samsung, Stellantis, and Visa.

We place a huge focus on our People, and have driven flagship D&I and L&D programmes within Publicis Media; our goal is to help every individual reach their fullest potential, and we encourage everyone to make “Brave Plays” in how they approach their work and their own career development. As a result, we have an exceptionally energised and committed talent base, all of us proud of our welcoming and supportive culture, as evidenced by our recognition as one of Campaign’s Best Places to Work for five years in a row, Media Week's Agency of the Year 2025 and one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025.

Overview: You will be working on one of the world’s fastest growing grocery retailers with exciting expansion plans across key markets, and well-established market share across most European countries offering unrivalled quality and price for all its customers.

Responsibilities:

• Business Development & Growth: Accountable for leading the overall business development and growth of Account’s digital throughout locally and centrally activated media and projects. Package and sell in new digital models, services, and solutions to regional clients to drive account growth and profitability.
• Digital Activation Excellence & Quality of output: Develop, own and iterate the digital vision and strategic areas of focus on an annual basis. Clearly communicate and set expectations with all local digital teams.
• Digital Hub Operations, Model & WoW: Accountable for the digital Model and WoW, including London and offshore collaboration, identifying evaluations and deploying throughout the Hub and into local markets.
• Stakeholder management (Internal and External): Engage with multiple stakeholders in Starcom and local market leads. Manage senior Account’s global clients across digital marketing and activation, procurement.
• People Management: Directly (centralized) and indirectly (local) lead a team of digital channel specialists, set the vision, excellence, and expectations for the digital across all markets.

Qualifications: What are we looking for?

• Extensive experience across biddable channel strategy, planning, and activation within social, search, programmatic and e-commerce (multi-market).
• Extensive experience in centralised digital hubs and local market digital teams.
• Experience in leading large digital activation teams across multiple locations.
• Strong team leader who provides support and empathy for all team members.

Additional Information: Starcom offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave.

At Starcom, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.