IPG MediaBrands

Director, B2B Acceleration

IPG MediaBrands$130K — $150K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years in B2B marketing or media strategy.
  • Expertise in Demand Generation and ABM programs.
  • Ability to blend analytical and creative thinking.
  • Experience collaborating with clients in change management.
  • Strong communication skills for presenting strategies to senior stakeholders.
  • Leadership in bringing together diverse teams across departments.
  • Hands-on experience with B2B MarTech platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Audit current media capabilities and processes.
  • Define vision for maturing media capabilities alongside stakeholders.
  • Translate long-term growth objectives into actionable workstreams.
  • Lead the development of key initiatives like Demand Generation.
  • Collaborate to implement strategies from concept to business-as-usual.
  • Define B2B KPIs and optimization strategies collaboratively.
  • Provide insights on the competitive B2B landscape and emerging technologies.

Benefits

  • Medical and dental coverage.
  • 401(k) plans.
  • Flexible spending options.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Employee discount program.
  • Employee stock purchase program.
  • Paid family benefits.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

As Director, Communications Design you are in charge of designing the blueprint for cultural ideas to spread through communications planning excellence, integration and growth performance on your clients and brands. In your role you are translating the communications strategy into the actionable idea platform (in collaboration with creative partners) that will deliver behavioral change at all connection points. Creating innovative connections that grow brands is a passion for you.

You will work with the Strategy team on the Connections Architecture and utilize your experience & skills to manage the design of fully integrated communications plans across owned, earned and paid connections. You work closely with the analytics leads to identify appropriate audience and data strategies to unlock growth. You lead the relationship with SBUs and client agencies roster throughout the design stages and work with the Partnerships team in evaluating & selecting the right partners, and appropriate spends across the Communications Design blueprint.
Responsibilities

Strategic Vision & Framework Development:
  • Audit current media capabilities and ways of working.
  • Define vision to mature media capabilities, in partnership with key cross-functional stakeholders, to drive long term growth.
  • Translate vision and growth objectives into a roadmap of workstreams based on current capabilities. Identify dependencies for implementation and define success metrics for Roadmaps.
  • Lead development of select long term workstreams including advancing ABM and Demand Generation programs.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to implement workstreams from proof of concept to scaling to business-as-usual.

Performance Optimization & Investment Guidance:
  • Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams to define B2B-specific KPIs and optimization hierarchies.
  • Leverage data and Marech expertise to guide investment decisions and optimize B2B performance across campaigns.

Market Intelligence & Innovation Leadership:
  • Bring B2B competitive landscape and emerging tech / platforms updates to cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Develop recommendations based on B2B landscape and emerging tech / platforms updates to inform long term strategies.

Above-Quarter Program + Change Management:
  • Define process and ways of working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure workstream progress and implementation


Required Skills & Experience
  • 8-10 years of proven experience in B2B marketing, B2B media strategy & planning, B2B consulting, or a similar role.
  • Deep expertise in B2B marketing and tactics. Proven ability to scale designing and scaling Demand Gen and ABM programs.
  • Able to think strategically, using a balanced analytical and creative approach.
  • Proven ability to collaborate and co-create with clients, take them out of their comfort zone, and manage through change.
  • Strong ability to present complex strategies and insights to senior stakeholders; comfortable communicating with both creative and analytical audiences.
  • Collaborative leader who is able to bring together internal and external stakeholders from different disciplines (Media, Marketing, IT / MarTech, Analytics, FP&A)
  • Experience in data analysis and performance reporting, translating observations into actionable insights
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills with experience managing large clients and high volume of activity
  • Hands-on experience with B2B MarTech platforms (e.g., Salesforce, DemandBase, Linkedin Campaign Manager, etc.) and marketing automation systems.
  • Experience with multi-touch attribution models, customer journey mapping, and connecting marketing metrics to revenue outcomes.
  • Working knowledge and experience with current media trends and innovations.
  • Comfortable moving between managing teams on workstreams to being an individual contributor on workstreams.
Wage and Benefits

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes medical and dental coverage, 401(k) plans, flex spending, life insurance, disability, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and paid family benefits to support you and your family.

The salary range for this position is posted below. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position, market considerations, budgetary considerations, tenure and standing with the Company (applicable to current employees), as well as the employee's/applicant's skill set, level of experience, and qualifications.

Salary Range

$130,000-$150,000 USD

About IPG MediaBrands

The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. is an American publicly traded advertising company. The company consists of five major networks: FCB, IPG Mediabrands, McCann Worldgroup, MullenLowe Group, and Marketing Specialists, as well as a number of independent specialty agencies in the areas of public relations, sports marketing, talent representation, and healthcare. It is one of the "Big Four" agency companies, alongside WPP, Publicis and Omnicom. Phillippe Krakowsky became the company's CEO on January 1, 2021.
Learn more about IPG MediaBrands
Size
13,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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