About WPP Production
We are WPP Production – the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP's content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organisation. We combine world-class human craft with next-generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi-channel content systems at scale. Built for borderless collaboration and powered by deep craft expertise, we are the production engine designed for today's always-on, AI-driven marketing world.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
Hybrid Working Model
We believe the best work happens when we’re together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That’s why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. Please note, this is a 12-month FTC initially.
The Role
As Business Director you will be deeply embedded within Dyson’s creative and production ecosystem at their Malmesbury campus. This is a critical, high-impact role focused on enhancing Dyson’s primary production workflow, establishing essential governance structures, and driving significant strategic and organic revenue growth for WPP Production.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Growth & Business Development: Drive significant revenue growth for WPP Production within the Dyson account, expanding our footprint across creative support functions, film production, and design capabilities.
- Opportunity Identification: Actively identify and bring in new workstreams, particularly in agile and high-volume content production, by working closely with Dyson’s creative and production teams.
- Cross-Selling & Expansion: Focus on extending WPP Production’s full breadth of services to Dyson, aiming to grow our design expertise and secure work across all regions.
- Platform Adoption: Champion the adoption and utilisation of WPP Production’s proprietary tools and platforms to streamline workflows and unlock new production efficiencies for Dyson.
- New Business: Play a key role in identifying and developing new business opportunities or expansions within the broader Dyson ecosystem.
- Partner with the Global Client Lead (GCL) & Global Delivery Lead to align on strategic growth objectives and deliver excellence.
- On‑site Client Partnership & Relationship Management:
- Embedded Advisor: Act as the primary, day-to-day trusted advisor for Dyson’s creative and production leadership, providing guidance and counsel from an on-site perspective to help them achieve their business objectives.
- Problem Solving: Proactively understand Dyson’s internal resourcing challenges and operational gaps within their creative and production departments, and offer immediate, tangible support and solutions from WPP Production.
- Relationship Health: Responsible for the day-to-day management of the overall client engagement, ensuring high levels of client satisfaction and addressing any issues promptly and effectively.
- Expectation Management: Expertly manage Dyson’s expectations for WPP Production, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
- Strategic Insights: Deliver regular (monthly/quarterly) strategic insights and recommendations to Dyson, demonstrating our value and forward-thinking partnership.
- Account Governance: Partner with the GCL & Global Delivery Lead to drive robust account governance, including quarterly and annual business reviews.
- Operational Governance & Leadership:
- Governance Champion: Support Dyson in strengthening and evolving their governance structure for global creative and production teams, addressing current operational challenges.
- Team Leadership (Internal & External): Guide and mentor WPP Production’s embedded creative talent, providing leadership, guidance and support to ensure they are integrated and delivering effectively for Dyson.
- Workflow Enhancement: Collaborate closely with Dyson’s creative and production leads to significantly enhance and optimise their primary production workflow.
- Empowerment: Empower both WPP Production’s embedded team and Dyson’s teams to find solutions, removing barriers to success and fostering a culture of ownership.
- Inspiration: Inspire both internal WPP Production teams and relevant Dyson stakeholders to continually push for better, epitomising our brand values.
- Financial Stewardship:
- Support with P&Ls, budgets, and forecasting specifically for the Dyson account.
- Partner with WPP Production’s client delivery, finance and commercial teams to review revenue and plan against regular revenue analyses to maximise commercial opportunities.
- Leverage profit levers to drive profitability across the Dyson account portfolio.
- Collaboration & Culture:
- Work collaboratively with WPP Production’s internal capability experts (creative, production, operations, technology, finance, SMEs) to unlock opportunities for growth within Dyson.
- Maintain a high level of trust and respect among department heads across WPP Production.
- Contribute to WPP Production’s culture by exhibiting ownership, professionalism, passion and leading by example, fostering an environment of fresh thinking, collaboration, respect, equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Champion sustainability within WPP Production and Dyson’s content creation processes.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience: Extensive experience (10+ years) in a senior production client services, marketing, integrated campaigns/digital agency or consultancy environment.
- Client Relationship Expertise: Exceptional client relationship skills, adept at navigating multi-stakeholder environments, matrix reporting structures, and providing a strong industry point of view.
- Proven experience driving positive client satisfaction and proactively addressing complex client situations.
- Business & Financial Acumen: Strong business and financial acumen, with a demonstrated ability to manage P&Ls, forecasts and drive significant revenue growth through strategic and organic means.
- Strategic Vision: Ability to identify strategic opportunities within a complex client organization, understanding their competitive landscape and business objectives.
- Governance & Workflow: Proven experience in establishing or significantly improving governance structures for creative and production workflows within a large enterprise.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire and empower complex teams to achieve outstanding results. Experience in guiding creative or production teams highly desirable.
- Communication & Storytelling: Outstanding ability to write clear, cohesive, and focused client communications, including strategic presentations with strong storytelling skills. Experience in mentoring team members.
- Adaptability: A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset, comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving client environment like Dyson, with an authentic passion for great work, teams and business transformation.
- Technical Understanding: Familiarity with various content production methodologies including agile, high-volume content creation and an understanding of how data and technology can elevate creative output.
- On‑site Commitment: Ability to be based full-time at the Dyson Campus in Malmesbury.
Why Work Here
At WPP Production, you’ll help shape the future of content production at a truly global scale. We bring together world-class talent, cutting-edge studios and advanced technology to solve some of the most complex creative and production challenges in the industry. You’ll work in a collaborative, borderless environment where craft excellence is valued, innovation is encouraged and AI and next-generation tools are used to amplify – not replace – human creativity. With access to diverse projects, global career opportunities and the backing of WPP’s unmatched network, this is a place where you can grow your skills, make real impact and create work that performs for every audience, across every channel at every moment.
Inclusion and Impact
WPP is an equal-opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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We are WPP Production – the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP’s content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organisation. We combine world-class human craft with next-generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi-channel content systems at scale. Built for borderless collaboration and powered by deep craft expertise, we are the production engine designed for today’s always-on, AI-driven marketing world.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
Hybrid Working Model
We believe the best work happens when we’re together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That’s why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. Please note, this is a 12-month FTC initially.
The Role
As Business Director you will be deeply embedded within Dyson’s creative and production ecosystem at their Malmesbury campus. This is a critical, high-impact role focused on enhancing Dyson’s primary production workflow, establishing essential governance structures, and driving significant strategic and organic revenue growth for WPP Production.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Growth & Business Development: Drive significant revenue growth for WPP Production within the Dyson account, expanding our footprint across creative support functions, film production, and design capabilities.
- Opportunity Identification: Actively identify and bring in new workstreams, particularly in agile and high-volume content production, by working closely with Dyson’s creative and production teams.
- Cross-Selling & Expansion: Focus on extending WPP Production’s full breadth of services to Dyson, aiming to grow our design expertise and secure work across all regions.
- Platform Adoption: Champion the adoption and utilisation of WPP Production’s proprietary tools and platforms to streamline workflows and unlock new production efficiencies for Dyson.
- New Business: Play a key role in identifying and developing new business opportunities or expansions within the broader Dyson ecosystem.
- Partner with the Global Client Lead (GCL) & Global Delivery Lead to align on strategic growth objectives and deliver excellence.
- On‑site Client Partnership & Relationship Management:
- Embedded Advisor: Act as the primary, day-to-day trusted advisor for Dyson’s creative and production leadership, providing guidance and counsel from an on-site perspective to help them achieve their business objectives.
- Problem Solving: Proactively understand Dyson’s internal resourcing challenges and operational gaps within their creative and production departments, and offer immediate, tangible support and solutions from WPP Production.
- Relationship Health: Responsible for the day-to-day management of the overall client engagement, ensuring high levels of client satisfaction and addressing any issues promptly and effectively.
- Expectation Management: Expertly manage Dyson’s expectations for WPP Production, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
- Strategic Insights: Deliver regular (monthly/quarterly) strategic insights and recommendations to Dyson, demonstrating our value and forward-thinking partnership.
- Account Governance: Partner with the GCL & Global Delivery Lead to drive robust account governance, including quarterly and annual business reviews.
- Operational Governance & Leadership:
- Governance Champion: Support Dyson in strengthening and evolving their governance structure for global creative and production teams, addressing current operational challenges.
- Team Leadership (Internal & External): Guide and mentor WPP Production’s embedded creative talent, providing leadership, guidance and support to ensure they are integrated and delivering effectively for Dyson.
- Workflow Enhancement: Collaborate closely with Dyson’s creative and production leads to significantly enhance and optimise their primary production workflow.
- Empowerment: Empower both WPP Production’s embedded team and Dyson’s teams to find solutions, removing barriers to success and fostering a culture of ownership.
- Inspiration: Inspire both internal WPP Production teams and relevant Dyson stakeholders to continually push for better, epitomising our brand values.
- Financial Stewardship:
- Support with P&Ls, budgets, and forecasting specifically for the Dyson account.
- Partner with WPP Production’s client delivery, finance and commercial teams to review revenue and plan against regular revenue analyses to maximise commercial opportunities.
- Leverage profit levers to drive profitability across the Dyson account portfolio.
- Collaboration & Culture:
- Work collaboratively with WPP Production’s internal capability experts (creative, production, operations, technology, finance, SMEs) to unlock opportunities for growth within Dyson.
- Maintain a high level of trust and respect among department heads across WPP Production.
- Contribute to WPP Production’s culture by exhibiting ownership, professionalism, passion and leading by example, fostering an environment of fresh thinking, collaboration, respect, equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Champion sustainability within WPP Production and Dyson’s content creation processes.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience: Extensive experience (10+ years) in a senior production client services, marketing, integrated campaigns/digital agency or consultancy environment.
- Client Relationship Expertise: Exceptional client relationship skills, adept at navigating multi-stakeholder environments, matrix reporting structures, and providing a strong industry point of view.
- Proven experience driving positive client satisfaction and proactively addressing complex client situations.
- Business & Financial Acumen: Strong business and financial acumen, with a demonstrated ability to manage P&Ls, forecasts and drive significant revenue growth through strategic and organic means.
- Strategic Vision: Ability to identify strategic opportunities within a complex client organization, understanding their competitive landscape and business objectives.
- Governance & Workflow: Proven experience in establishing or significantly improving governance structures for creative and production workflows within a large enterprise.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire and empower complex teams to achieve outstanding results. Experience in guiding creative or production teams highly desirable.
- Communication & Storytelling: Outstanding ability to write clear, cohesive, and focused client communications, including strategic presentations with strong storytelling skills. Experience in mentoring team members.
- Adaptability: A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset, comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving client environment like Dyson, with an authentic passion for great work, teams and business transformation.
- Technical Understanding: Familiarity with various content production methodologies including agile, high-volume content creation and an understanding of how data and technology can elevate creative output.
- On‑site Commitment: Ability to be based full-time at the Dyson Campus in Malmesbury.
Why Work Here
At WPP Production, you’ll help shape the future of content production at a truly global scale. We bring together world-class talent, cutting-edge studios and advanced technology to solve some of the most complex creative and production challenges in the industry. You’ll work in a collaborative, borderless environment where craft excellence is valued, innovation is encouraged and AI and next-generation tools are used to amplify – not replace – human creativity. With access to diverse projects, global career opportunities and the backing of WPP’s unmatched network, this is a place where you can grow your skills, make real impact and create work that performs for every audience, across every channel at every moment.
Inclusion and Impact
WPP is an equal-opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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