SVP, Commercial – Global Client Solutions (GCS)
London, United Kingdom
Role Summary
A senior commercial leadership role with end-to-end responsibility for driving growth, profitability, and operational excellence across a portfolio of Global Client Solutions activity, while partnering closely with client leadership, finance, people, and operations teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and evolve commercial propositions for Global Clients that maximise growth and profitability for WPP Media and its clients.
- Partner with Global Client Leads on pricing, negotiations, staffing, contribution margin, and investment decisions across hubbed activity.
- Lead pricing of team structures, benchmark comparisons, performance-related fee models, and other incentive mechanisms.
- Liaise with client legal and procurement teams on contract drafting, review, local market addendums, opt-in agreements, NDAs, and related ad hoc needs.
- Act as the finance, commercial, and strategic business partner to Client Presidents for Global Clients in respect of hubbed activity.
- Drive pre-month-end reviews and maintain accurate rolling forecasts in partnership with FP&A, Reporting, and Controllership.
- Review profitability, staffing plans, budgets, and forecasts to ensure deliverability and surface key risks and opportunities.
- Partner with Resource Management, finance operations, and controllership teams to optimise margin, staffing, and portfolio performance.
- Ensure accountability for investments in staffing to ensure ROI and keep under continuous review.
Transformation, Compliance, and Team Leadership
- Partner with Compliance and Commercial Compliance to improve OMI management, pass-back and release, audit readiness, and contract transition activity.
- Support the development of tools and systems that improve clarity of financial and operational information for decision-making.
- Commercial Finance & Pricing Expertise within a media environment.
- Multi Market Experience.
- Contract Negotiation & Working Capital Management.
- Senior Stakeholder Management & Commercial Partnering.
- People Management and Leadership.
- Media Agency Experience.
Life at WPP Media & Benefits
WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to 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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