Saatchi & Saatchi

Senior Vice President, Client Management

Saatchi & Saatchi$170K — $220K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in digital or advertising environments
  • Strong engagement and negotiation skills for client and conflict management
  • Experience or aptitude for startup environments
  • Exceptional organizational skills for managing multiple clients and priorities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
  • Ability to thrive in dynamic, evolving environments with a focus on process creation
  • Knowledge of major social platforms (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc.)
  • Insatiable drive to learn about trends in social and influencer commerce

Responsibilities

  • Partner with discipline leads to align staffing across various capabilities
  • Collaborate with portfolio SVP to ensure profitability
  • Train team on Influential's operational processes and best practices
  • Develop training and action plans for team members
  • Adopt a client-first mindset to address challenges and opportunities
  • Lead and develop client reviews and milestone campaigns
  • Monitor client performance objectives to meet or exceed goals
  • Oversee client communication to build trust within the portfolio team
  • Manage monthly billing reconciliation processes for transparency
  • Stay updated on industry trends within the client verticals

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Disability benefits
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Family forming assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
Full Job Description
Overview

The role of SVP, Client Management serves as the leader across a major client in the pharmaceutical vertical, creating a comprehensive process, operational excellence and managerial oversight to deliver best-in-class creator branded content for all brands within the client's portfolio.

As a senior leader in the organization, the SVP Client Management lead oversees the client management team and reports to the client portfolio lead. The client management team is responsible for collaborating to build strong agency leadership and client relationships resulting in growth through campaign success, innovation, and development of opportunistic ideas. The SVP, Client Management lead will partner with Influential department leads and Influential internal sales team to unlock opportunities with the client.

Strong leadership skills in motivating a diverse, fast moving team is imperative. Extreme attention to detail, clear understanding of Influential's commercial models and ability to navigate Publicis, its leaders and ways of working are critical to success. Juggling multiple stakeholders and partners requires focus, patience and resilience to navigate priorities.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:
  • Partnering with Influential discipline leads to ensuring teams have appropriate staffing allocation across capabilities in strategy & analytics, performance media, creator, etc.
  • Partner with SVP, Client Management lead in the profitability for the portfolio
  • Ensure team is trained on all aspects of Influential ways of working and client management processes
  • Implement training and development with action plans for each employee on team
  • Have a client first mindset, see challenges, roadblocks, opportunities and pivots needed to support the day to day work
  • Partner with SVP, Client Management lead to develop and lead client reviews, QBRs, milestone campaigns in support of excellence
  • Monitor and track client's performance objectives for all their existing initiatives to ensure program goals are being met/exceeded
  • Work with teams to ensure the client develops trust in the portfolio team by overseeing client outputs and communication
  • Ensure team is managing monthly billing reconciliation process and communicate to SVP, Groupe each month
  • Stay apprised of industry trends and client verticals

Qualifications

Being a Senior Vice President, Client Solutions requires:
  • 12+ years of experience working in a digital or advertising environment required
  • Excellent engagement and negotiation skills across, client management, expectation management, and conflict resolution
  • Experience and/or aptitude for working in a startup environment
  • Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple clients and priorities with discretion
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to interact professionally with external and internal clients
  • Thrives within a dynamic and evolving environment, competent at generating process and structure as needed to best activate the team
  • Knowledgeable of all major social platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube
  • Insatiable curiosity and drive to learn and stay up to date on the latest trends and innovations in the social, influencer, and commerce space

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: USD $170,000.00 - USD $220,000.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/24/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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