H+K Strategies

Managing Director, WPP Media Growth Activation

H+K Strategies • $210K — $250K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 7+ years at a senior level in media, data, analytics, CRM, martech, AI, or customer transformation.
  • Established credibility with media leaders and senior client stakeholders.
  • Experience in bridging performance marketing and technological transformation discussions.
  • Strong commercial instincts to identify scalable growth opportunities from operational challenges.
  • Proficient in synthesizing complex information into clear narratives for clients.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and leveraging AI trends effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with WPP Media leadership to identify growth opportunities relevant to ES.
  • Shape opportunities focusing on measurement, customer intelligence, and AI-driven transformations.
  • Assist media teams in recognizing when to escalate client needs to ES solutions.
  • Develop client perspectives and opportunity briefs connecting media signals to broader business needs.
  • Ensure qualified opportunities are routed to the right ES activation support promptly.
  • Collaborate with Growth Architecture for technical validation on complex opportunities.
  • Document and capture reusable patterns from media to ES across key accounts.

Benefits

  • Global leadership role with a focus on media and technology-driven growth.
  • Opportunity to shape the future of client-business interactions through data-driven insights.
  • Exposure to high-profile clients and media leaders within a renowned network.
  • Collaboration with diverse teams across creative, media, and technology sectors.
  • Chance to enhance personal skills in a fast-evolving tech landscape dominated by AI and data.
Full Job Description
Managing Director, WPP Media Growth Activation

Function

WPP Network Growth

Reports to

Head of WPP Network Growth / Executive Director, WPP Network Growth

Level

Managing Director

Count

1

Location / hub

New York

Remit

Global role focused on WPP Media-led ES growth opportunities.

ROLE MANDATE

Drive ES growth activation through WPP Media relationships, especially where media, data, customer intelligence, measurement, personalization, AI or platform transformation are present.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

Media relationships often expose performance, measurement, data, technology and operating-model issues that can become significant ES opportunities. This role turns those signals into qualified growth pathways.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Partner with WPP Media leadership and client teams to identify ES-relevant opportunities.
  • Shape opportunities around measurement, customer intelligence, personalization, CRM, data, AI, platform and marketing operating model transformation.
  • Help media teams identify when a client need should be escalated into ES rather than solved only within the media scope.
  • Develop client POVs and opportunity briefs that connect media signals to broader business and technology needs.
  • Route qualified opportunities into the right ES activation support and keep momentum through early-stage pursuit.
  • Coordinate with Growth Architecture when the opportunity requires technical validation, enterprise architecture or complex commercial shaping.
  • Capture media-to-ES patterns that can be reused across priority accounts.

CANDIDATE PROFILE
  • Managing Director-level leader with experience in media, data, analytics, CRM, martech, AI or customer transformation.
  • Strong credibility with media leadership and senior client teams.
  • Able to bridge performance marketing, customer data, platform and business transformation conversations.
  • Commercially instinctive and able to identify scalable ES opportunities from operational or measurement pain points.
  • Strong synthesis and client-facing narrative skills.
  • AI-enabled, fast-moving and comfortable with ambiguity.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS
  • Head of WPP Network Growth and wider Growth leadership.
  • WPP Creative, WPP Media, WPP Open and agency client teams.
  • GCLs and priority account teams where ES opportunities are present.
  • Growth Architecture & Enterprise Sales for complex or ambiguous opportunities.
  • ES Pillar Leads, Consulting / Advisory, Alliances, Pursuit Excellence and Growth Operations.

SUCCESS MEASURES
  • Qualified ES pipeline sourced through WPP Media relationships.
  • Number of media-to-ES opportunities shaped and routed.
  • Conversion from media signal to qualified ES pursuit.
  • Repeatable measurement, data, AI and platform plays created for priority accounts.
  • WPP Media stakeholder confidence and repeat engagement with ES.

FIRST 90-DAY FOCUS
  • Identify priority WPP Media relationships and current client pain points that may indicate ES opportunity.
  • Build initial media-to-ES opportunity map.
  • Create two to three clear plays around measurement, data, CRM, AI or platform transformation.
  • Qualify live opportunities and route activation requests into ES.

About H+K Strategies

H+K Strategies is a global public relations company that specializes in corporate communications, public affairs, and crisis management. The company was founded in 1927 and has since grown to have over 2900 employees in more than 80 offices around the world. H+K Strategies has worked with a variety of clients, including major corporations, governments, and non-profit organizations. The company is known for its strategic approach to public relations and its ability to help clients navigate complex issues and crises.
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Size
2,900 employees
Industry
Media
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